Stage 5: Paper Trading & Journaling
The 'Beta Test' of your strategy. Practice on a simulator and learn to journal your results before risking a single dollar.
Latest Articles from Stage 5: Paper Trading & Journaling
Oil Futures Short — London High/London Low Range, Active Risk Management
Active risk management saved this trend trade.
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Trading the Oil Trend in a High-Volatility Environment
Ongoing geopolitical tension around the Strait of Hormuz, creating sustained bullish pressure on oil.
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Support & Resistance Part 5: How to Backtest (Without Fooling Yourself)
A practical guide to testing your S&R approach on historical data — and the biases that make most backtesting results useless.
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Trend Following Part 5: How to Backtest a Trend Following Strategy That Actually Tells You Something
Trend following is one of the few trading approaches where rigorous backtesting is both achievable and genuinely informative. Here's how to run an honest test, what metrics to look for, and what the research actually shows.
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Read My Stories
Your first week in a trading platform is genuinely disorienting. Prices move in ways that don't match what you read. Decisions that seem obvious in hindsight aren't obvious in real time. This is completely normal . Here's what to actually expect, so you can make the most of the learning curve rather than fighting it.
Updated on Jul 8, 2026
An inside bar is a two-candle pattern where the second candle's high and low are both contained within the range of the first candle. The first candle (the "mother bar") engulfs the second. This containment signals a pause, indicating he market has compressed into a tighter range after a directional move. Inside bars are used as entry triggers and as precursors to breakout moves.
Updated on Jul 7, 2026
The internet delivers confident trading knowledge at industrial scale. Most of it is untested, some of it actively harmful. Developing the ability to evaluate what you're being taught, and what you think you've learned, is one of the most useful meta-skills in trading.
Updated on Jul 4, 2026