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Full Systems, Not Just Reference Material

Full digital courses, from a 10-module deep dive on one trading style to a growing, interactive course built for someone starting at zero. Delivered as a private course page, not a PDF: instant access, no login, yours to re-read for good. Same 60-day no-questions-asked guarantee as everything else in the shop.

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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The Scalping System

The liquidity, spread, and order-flow math scalping runs on, five setups to backtest yourself, high-frequency risk sizing, and an 8-week path from simulator to live size.

Try the live spread-cost calculator on the page

$399 View Course →
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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The Small-Cap Volatility System

Float and dilution math, real catalysts versus promotion, halts and LULD bands, liquidity risk in thin names, the full risk of short selling, and a watchlist built to last past next week.

Try the limit up/limit down calculator with your own reference price

$399 View Course →
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Trading Course · Interactive · Complete

The Absolute Beginner

Starts before the first chart, at what a stock actually is. Every term explained the moment it's used, interactive lessons, live calculators, two fillable planners, eight scenario labs, a searchable flashcard glossary, a print/PDF version, and knowledge checks. All 11 parts live now, 63 lessons, complete from zero through your first 90 days, with more depth added at no extra cost.

Fill in the one-page trading plan, right on the page

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 12 Modules

The Options Flow System

0DTE mechanics, the Greeks that actually matter, gamma squeeze mechanics, reading options flow, IV crush, spreads vs. naked risk, and the honest math behind turning $500 into $5,000.

Walk the options-market timeline from CBOE 1973 to today

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The Momentum Trading System

Relative volume, premarket gappers, new highs, momentum scanners, VWAP breaks, and opening range breakouts, with a working scanner builder and calculators built into the lessons.

Step through the three momentum-shift milestones on the page

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The 0DTE SPY & QQQ System

SPY at 9:30, calls vs. puts, the decay curve, the honest expected-value math behind the lottery trade, VWAP bias, key levels, CPI/FOMC/jobs-day behavior, and reading a huge intraday reversal.

Try the 0DTE expected-value calculator from Module 4

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The Trading Psychology System

Revenge trading, overtrading, FOMO, cutting winners short, moving stops, and breaking your own rules, each priced out with a working calculator, plus a tilt-score assessment and a 6-week behavioral reset.

Try the loss-aversion calculator on the page

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The Futures Trading System

ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, crude oil, and gold: contract specs, margin and leverage, the nearly 24-hour session, position sizing in ticks, four setups to backtest, and an 8-week paper-to-live ramp.

Try the tick-value calculator from Module 2

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The Prop Firm Trading System

FTMO, Apex, and Topstep: max vs. daily vs. trailing drawdown, the consistency rule, the actual math behind passing a $50K challenge, funded-account scaling and payouts, and the behavioral patterns that pass a challenge and then blow up the funded account.

Try the trailing-drawdown calculator from Module 3

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The Opening Bell Trading System

The 9:30 to 10:30 window: the first 5-minute candle, the opening range, gap and go, gap fills, the opening drive, failed breakouts, VWAP, and the first pullback.

Try the opening-range calculator from Module 3

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The Reversal Trading System

Failed breakouts, bull traps, bear traps, HOD and LOD reversals, parabolic exhaustion, VWAP reclaim and fail, mean reversion at a stretched extreme, and the tighter risk math a countertrend trade actually needs.

Try the live trap depth calculator on the page

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 12 Modules

The Earnings Trading System

IV crush, reading the gap, post-earnings drift versus reversal, four setups, straddle and spread strategy, and the binary-event sizing math a position with no overnight stop actually needs.

Try the expected-move calculator from Module 3

$299 View Course →
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Trading Course · 10 Modules

The News Trading System

CPI, FOMC, jobs report mornings, FDA decisions, analyst upgrades and downgrades, M&A, and breaking-news halts.

Run the surprise-vs-consensus math from Module 2

$299 View Course →
More full courses are added here regularly.

TradingView Indicators

Indicators, Built and Tested Live on TradingView

Each indicator is a Pine Script v6 file coded for one specific method, one specific instrument, and one specific timeframe, tested live in TradingView's Pine Editor before it's listed here. Comes with a short cheat sheet PDF and exact install steps. Same 60-day no-questions-asked guarantee.

Every method below is decades old and still in daily use for a reason. Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD, and the Chandelier Exit were built well before Pine Script existed, most of them worked out by hand on paper charts, and none of them have needed to change since. Each product page for these tools includes a short section on where its indicator actually came from.

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TradingView Indicator · 7-Page Cheat Sheet

EMA 9/21 Crossover

The standard 9/21 EMA crossover, coded for TradingView and tuned for SPY on 1-hour candles. Signal arrows, gap shading, and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 7-Page Cheat Sheet

Bollinger Bands 20/2 Mean Reversion

John Bollinger's original 20-period, 2-standard-deviation default, coded for TradingView and tuned for BTC/USD on 4-hour candles, with reclaim-style signals.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 7-Page Cheat Sheet

VWAP Reclaim/Reject

Session-anchored VWAP, coded for TradingView and tuned for AAPL on 5-minute candles, with Reclaim and Reject signal markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 7-Page Cheat Sheet

RSI 14 Overbought/Oversold

Wilder's classic 14-period RSI with 70/30 signals, coded for TradingView and tuned for TQQQ on 4-hour candles, with overbought/oversold cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 7-Page Cheat Sheet

Donchian Channel Breakout (20)

Richard Donchian's classic price channel with the Turtle Traders' 20-bar convention, coded for TradingView and tuned for E-mini S&P 500 futures on 15-minute candles, with breakout markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

MACD 12/26/9 Crossover

Gerald Appel's classic 12/26/9 MACD, coded for TradingView and tuned for QQQ on daily candles, with crossover markers, histogram, and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Stochastic 14/3/3 Overbought/Oversold

George Lane's classic 14/3/3 Stochastic Oscillator with 80/20 signals, coded for TradingView and tuned for GLD on 1-hour candles, with cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Chandelier Exit 22/3

Chuck LeBeau's classic 22-period, 3x ATR Chandelier Exit trailing stop, coded for TradingView and tuned for NQ1! E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures on 15-minute candles, with flip markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

SMA 50/200 Golden Cross

The classic 50-day / 200-day simple moving average crossover, coded for TradingView and tuned for IWM (iShares Russell 2000 ETF) on daily candles, with crossover markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Williams %R 14

Larry Williams' classic 14-period Williams %R with his own -20 / -80 overbought/oversold levels, coded for TradingView and tuned for AMD on 1-hour candles, with cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Keltner Channel Breakout 20/10/2

The classic 20-period EMA / 10-period ATR / 2.0x multiplier Keltner Channel, coded for TradingView and tuned for CL1! crude oil futures on 30-minute candles, with breakout markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

ADX/DMI Trend Strength 14/25

Wilder's classic 14-period ADX/DMI trend-strength system with the standard 25-level threshold, coded for TradingView and tuned for MSFT on daily candles, with directional cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Parabolic SAR 0.02/0.02/0.2

Wilder's classic Parabolic SAR trend-following stop system with the standard 0.02 starting/increment and 0.2 max acceleration factor, coded for TradingView and tuned for ETHUSD on the 4-hour chart, with flip markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

CCI 20 Overbought/Oversold

Lambert's classic 20-period Commodity Channel Index with the standard ±100 overbought/oversold levels, coded for TradingView and tuned for SOXL on 1-hour candles, with re-entry markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Supertrend 10/3

The ATR-based trailing trend line popularized by Olivier Seban, built on Wilder's original ATR, coded for TradingView and tuned for NVDA on 1-hour candles, with flip markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Money Flow Index 14 80/20

The volume-weighted 14-period Money Flow Index with the standard 80/20 overbought/oversold levels, coded for TradingView and tuned for SOLUSD on 30-minute candles, with re-entry markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Aroon 25 Up/Down

Tushar Chande's original 25-period Aroon Up/Down, coded for TradingView and tuned for GC1! Gold futures on Daily candles, with cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Chaikin Money Flow 20 Zero-Line Cross

Marc Chaikin's volume-and-price Money Flow reading with the standard 20-period lookback, coded for TradingView and tuned for XLE on 1-hour candles, with zero-line cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 7-Page Cheat Sheet

On-Balance Volume 20 SMA Signal

Joseph Granville's original On-Balance Volume line with a 20-period signal-line cross, coded for TradingView and tuned for COIN on daily candles, with cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 7-Page Cheat Sheet

Price ROC 12 Zero-Line Cross

The classic 12-period Price Rate of Change with a zero-line cross signal, coded for TradingView and tuned for TSLA on 15-minute candles, with cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Awesome Oscillator 5/34 Zero-Line Cross

Bill Williams' original 5/34 median-price Awesome Oscillator, coded for TradingView and tuned for PLTR on 1-hour candles, with zero-line cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Elder Ray Bull/Bear Power 13

Dr. Alexander Elder's original 13-period Bull Power / Bear Power split, coded for TradingView and tuned for UNH on daily candles, with cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
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TradingView Indicator · 8-Page Cheat Sheet

Vortex Indicator 14 Crossover

Botes and Siepman's original 14-period Vortex Indicator, coded for TradingView and tuned for XOM on 4-hour candles, with cross markers and built-in alerts.

$7 View Indicator →
More indicators, one new method + instrument + timeframe at a time, are added here regularly.

Tools & Templates

Spreadsheets and Checklists Built to Use, Not Just Read

Self-calculating workbooks and printable checklists for the parts of trading that are just record-keeping and arithmetic. No charts, no case studies, no theory. Same 60-day no-questions-asked guarantee.

None of the ideas behind these tools are new either. Risk-based position sizing traces to a 1956 paper written for Bell Labs, the wash sale rule is a piece of tax law from 1921, and the R-multiple comes from a 1998 book on trading psychology. Each product page below includes a short section on where its own method came from.

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Trading Tool · XLSX Workbook

The Trade Log

A self-calculating Excel trading journal. Log entry, exit, size, and stop, and get planned risk, realized P&L, R-multiple, weekly review, and a full stats dashboard automatically.

Try the expectancy calculator with your own win rate

$12 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · XLSX Workbook

The Position Size Calculator

Four inputs (account size, risk per trade, entry, stop) and a full risk-comparison table across eight risk percentages, calculated instantly. Works for stocks, ETFs, futures, or forex.

Try the live calculator before you buy the workbook

$9 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · 10-Page PDF

The Pre-Trade Checklist Pack

Seven printable checklists covering pre-market, entry, trade management, exit, and end-of-day, weekly, and monthly review, plus a blank template page to build your own.

Run the 5-item checklist live before you buy

$5 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · 6-Page PDF

The Trading Plan One-Pager

One printable page for your own trading rules: markets, hours, setup criteria, risk limits, stop rule, exit rule, and what breaks the plan, plus an instructions page and a revision log.

Try writing one rule per line in the live worksheet

$6 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · XLSX Workbook

The Prop Firm & Broker Cost Comparison Worksheet

A blank comparison grid for lining up evaluation fees, splits, and drawdown rules across firms or brokers side by side, with fees and net payout calculated automatically from your own numbers.

See what a funded account actually nets you, live

$9 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · XLSX Workbook

The News Event Risk Worksheet

Plan your size before a scheduled high-impact event, then log what you actually did. No built-in calendar, just a place to write the decision down and see how often you stuck to it.

Step through the news-event risk window on the page

$7 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · XLSX Workbook

The Trade Tax Log

A self-calculating record of proceeds, cost basis, gain/loss, and short-term vs. long-term holding period for every closed position, plus a summary tab, so tax season starts with your own numbers instead of a blank spreadsheet.

See the built-in wash-sale window checker on the page

$9 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · 6-Page PDF

The 30-Day Discipline Tracker

A printable 30-day tracker for whether you followed your own trading rules, not whether the trade won, plus weekly reflection pages and a second blank month for next time.

Try the click-to-build streak grid on the page

$6 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · 6-Page PDF

The Global Market Hours Cheat Sheet

Stock exchange hours for ten major markets, all four forex sessions in UTC, the three overlap windows, a futures note, and a blank worksheet for your own trading hours.

See the live clock showing which sessions are open now

$5 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · XLSX Workbook

The 2026 Market Calendar & Economic Events Reference

2026 market holidays and early closes, the Fed's own tentative FOMC meeting schedule with a self-updating days-until countdown, and typical timing for recurring economic releases, all in one workbook.

Step through the FOMC's own meeting cadence on the page

$7 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · 6-Page PDF

The Options Greeks Reference Card

Plain-English definitions for Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and Rho, a Greeks-at-a-glance comparison table, and a blank log for recording what your own broker's platform shows.

Slide the strike and watch Delta move in real time

$6 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · 14-Page PDF

The Setup Playbook Card Deck

Twelve blank cards, one per setup archetype, each with the same five fields for your own entry criteria, invalidation, and risk-to-reward. You supply every answer.

Watch memory recall fade without a written card

$7 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · 6-Page PDF

The ATR Position Sizing Reference Card

The ATR-based position sizing formula explained in plain English, a worked example, a stop-distance multiplier reference table, and a blank worksheet for your own numbers.

Try the live ATR stop-and-size calculator

$6 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · 6-Page PDF

The Asset Correlation Reference Sheet

General, historically observed tendencies between common asset pairs, framed as a starting reference, plus a blank log for your own correlation notes.

Run Markowitz's own diversification math yourself

$6 View Tool →
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Trading Tool · 6-Page PDF

The Brokerage Statement Reconciliation Checklist

A monthly checklist for matching your own trade log against your broker's official statement, with a blank discrepancy log for anything that doesn't add up.

Reconcile four sample rows against a statement live

$5 View Tool →
More tools and templates are added here regularly.

Risk & Trading Psychology

Research Reports on the Mistakes That Make Trading Dangerous

Each product comes with a 60-day no-questions-asked guarantee. Select your product and place your secure order now.

None of the mistakes below are unique to trading. Loss aversion, the disposition effect, and escalation of commitment were all studied and named in psychology and economics journals, decades before any of these traders ever opened a chart. Each report page includes a short section on the research the report is built on, with the original study, the year, and where it was published.

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Risk & Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The Widened Stop

What moving your exit mid-trade really costs you, in plain numbers: the psychology behind widening a stop-loss, the research on why it happens, and what actually reduces it.

Drag your own loss through the same multipliers

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The Get-Even Trade

Why the very next trade after a loss gets sized bigger, aimed at winning it back fast: the research behind loss-chasing and the break-even effect, and what actually stops it.

Watch risk compound as you chase back to even

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The Hot Hand Trade

Why sizing up after a winning streak is the moment discipline breaks down: the research behind the hot-hand fallacy and the house money effect, and what the math says it costs.

Watch size climb while the odds stay flat

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The Falling Knife

Why adding to a losing position without a cap is the trade that ends the account: the disposition-effect research, the break-even math, and a 20,000-path simulation of what it actually costs.

Try adding to the same losing position and watch the math

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The One More Trade

Why traders keep going after they said they'd stop for the day: the prop-firm data on daily-loss-limit breaches, the tilt and ego-depletion research behind it, and a 20,000-day simulation of what it costs.

Watch size creep in after your own limit is hit

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The Chasing Trade

What buying after the move already happened really costs: the FOMO and herding research behind chasing an entry, the exact risk-to-reward math it destroys, and a 20,000-account simulation of what it does over time.

Watch the risk-to-reward ratio collapse as you chase

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The Reload

Why redepositing into a losing trading account almost never buys back the loss: the clinical loss-chasing research behind it, real prop-firm rebuy economics, and a 20,000-trader simulation of what it costs.

Stack your own reloads and watch the exposure grow

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The Round Trip

Why a winning trade you never took profit on so often ends up back where it started: the reference-point and house-money research behind ignoring a hit target, an exact gambler's-ruin probability result, and a 20,000-trade simulation of what it costs.

Watch an open gain round-trip back to breakeven

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Position Sizing · 20 Pages

The Double Exposure

Why several positions that each pass a normal per-trade risk check can still add up to one much larger bet: the portfolio-theory math behind correlated risk, a 1952 paper and three later studies, and a 20,000-trial simulation of what correlation actually costs.

Drag the correlation slider across three positions

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Position Sizing · 20 Pages

The News Gap

Why a calculated stop-loss isn't a promise of a price once a scheduled high-impact release hits: the market-microstructure research behind the spread widening and volatility jump, two worked hypothetical accounts, and a 20,000-account simulation of what trading through the news actually costs.

Step through a news release tick by tick

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Position Sizing · 20 Pages

The Frozen Size

What happens when the dollar amount risked per trade gets set once and never recalculated against the account's current balance: the Kelly/Vince research behind fixed-fractional sizing, two worked hypothetical accounts against a real drawdown floor, and a 20,000-account simulation comparing frozen sizing against sizing that rescales.

Drag your own account size and watch the percentage move

$7 View Report →
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Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The Dead Zone Trade

What happens when a trade gets taken not because a setup showed up, but because nothing else did: the sensation-seeking and gamification research behind it, the market's own scheduled low-volume "dead zone," two worked hypothetical accounts, and a 20,000-account simulation of what one boredom trade a day actually costs.

Step through the session's dead-volume hours

$7 View Report →
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Risk & Position Sizing · 20 Pages

The No-Stop Trade

What happens when a trade's exit exists only as an intention and never as an order the broker can act on: the loss-aversion and disposition-effect research behind why a mental stop fails, two worked composite accounts, and a 3,000-account Monte Carlo simulation comparing an enforced stop against a skipped one.

See what a loss actually takes to undo

$7 View Report →
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Trading Psychology · 20 Pages

The Skipped Trade

What happens when a plan-confirmed signal never gets taken, or gets taken at a fraction of size, purely because of a recent loss: the research behind why one bad outcome changes how the next signal gets judged, two worked composite accounts, and a 3,000-account Monte Carlo simulation comparing full compliance against selective compliance.

Flip the outcome and watch your own verdict change

$7 View Report →
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Market Structure & Options · 20 Pages

The 0DTE Report

What zero-days-to-expiration options actually do inside a single trading session: the exchange history behind their explosive growth, a 2023 study on who's really winning, a full mechanics case study, and a 5,000-path simulation of what a small daily 0DTE bet does to an account over a year.

Slide between 2016 and 2025 on the volume chart

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Retail Trading · 20 Pages

The Short Squeeze Report

How a short squeeze and a gamma squeeze actually work mechanically, the fully documented GameStop case from January 2021, published research on what chasing a move late tends to cost, and an original 20,000-path simulation showing how much entry timing alone changes the outcome.

Step through the six-week timeline on the page

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Account Rules · 20 Pages

The PDT Rule Report

What the $25,000 pattern day trader rule actually required, why FINRA replaced it with a new intraday margin standard effective June 4, 2026, what didn't change, and an original 20,000-account simulation on trade frequency and risk.

Step through the rule's twenty-five-year run

$9 View Report →
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Prop Trading & Account Evaluations · 20 Pages

The Funded Account Report

What actually happens inside a prop firm evaluation, what an independent study of 300,000 real accounts found about who passes and who gets paid, the behavioral-finance research behind most failed evaluations, and an original simulation on how position sizing decides the outcome against a drawdown ceiling.

Step through the 2024 funded-account shakeout

$9 View Report →
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Trading Technology & Automation · 20 Pages

The AI Trading Bots Report

What a retail trading bot actually is mechanically, a real research finding on where bot losses show up, what happened when eight frontier AI models actually traded real contests, and an original simulation showing how a strategy tuned to the past falls apart once it meets the present.

See what beating this win rate actually takes

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Product Mechanics · 20 Pages

The Leveraged ETF Decay Report

What a 2x or 3x single-stock ETF actually does to your money on a day the stock goes nowhere, the compounding math behind daily reset, a real 2018 case study of a nearly identical structure losing 96 percent in a session, and an original 20,000-path simulation across three market conditions.

Watch daily-reset compounding work against direction

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Emerging Markets · 20 Pages

The Prediction Markets Report

How event contracts actually work, the volume numbers behind the 2026 boom, the CFTC-versus-states regulatory fight, a historical study of the 2024 election markets, and an original simulation of what trading with the crowd actually costs.

See what the spread costs over many contracts

$9 View Report →
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Trading Technology & Retail Platforms · 20 Pages

The Copy Trading Report

How copy trading actually works mechanically, the growth numbers behind the boom, the research on risk-taking and popularity, the leader-follower split the industry's own data keeps finding, and an original 20,000-pair simulation of what following someone else actually costs.

See what copying actually costs a leader's return

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Regulation · 20 Pages

The Congressional Trading Report

What the STOCK Act actually requires, the 2004 study that started the legend and the 2013 study that fought back, a 2020 study covering the years since the law changed, the documented filing-lag data behind every disclosure, and an original simulation of what that delay costs a reader trying to follow along.

See what a filing delay does to a signal's value

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Order Routing · 20 Pages

The Dark Pool Report

Why 4 in 10 shares now trade off-exchange, where a retail market order actually goes before it fills, what payment for order flow really pays for, four real SEC enforcement cases, and an original simulation of what off-exchange routing is worth, and where it stops being a deal.

Try the midpoint-execution calculator on your own order

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Trading Hours · 20 Pages

The 24-Hour Trading Report

What already trades all night, the single venue behind most of it, the 2026 exchange-level regulatory sprint toward 24-hour markets, FINRA's own six disclosed risks, the April 2025 stress test, and an original simulation of what thin overnight liquidity actually costs and risks against a regular session.

See what overnight execution costs on your own order size

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Options Mechanics · 20 Pages

The Options Expiration Report

What max pain theory actually predicts, the 2005 academic study that tested it against real clustering data, the mechanics of dealer gamma, the December 2025 $7.1 trillion record witching day, and an original simulation isolating how much of a strike-price "pin" is ordinary chance.

Try the illustrative move-size odds calculator

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Calendar Patterns · 20 Pages

The Seasonality Trading Report

What the Halloween Indicator, the January Effect, and the Santa Claus Rally are actually built on, what published research across 37 markets found, and two original simulations testing how much of the pattern is noise and what chasing it costs after fees.

Try the switching-strategy cost calculator

$9 View Report →
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Market Structure & Technical Signals · 20 Pages

The Golden Cross Report

What the 1992 study that started the debate actually found, what a true out-of-sample test found on 25 years of fresh data decades later, a separate 2000 study on whether chart patterns carry information, and two original simulations pricing out what trading every golden and death cross costs.

Try the whipsaw-cost calculator

$9 View Report →
More reports on risk management and trading psychology are added here regularly.