Guides
Practical guides on practising with simulated money, keeping a journal worth reading back, and researching a market before you trade it. All educational, none of it advice.
Paper trading
Paper trading, and what it can honestly teach you
The pillar guide: what practice trading is good for, and the four things it cannot teach you.
How to start paper trading with a simple plan
One market, a one-page plan and ten logged trades. A concrete first week.
Paper trading mistakes that make results misleading
Eight habits that make a practice record look better than the decisions behind it.
Paper trading versus backtesting
Two different questions. Where each one misleads, and how they fit together.
Trading journals
How to keep a trading journal
What to record for every trade, and how to review it so the journal changes what you do.
R multiple, win rate and profit factor explained
What each metric measures, where each misleads, and the sample size at which they count.
How to review a trade
Questions for the entry, size, management and exit — without grading yourself on the outcome.
Markets
What is an ETF?
What you own, what it costs, and why diversified is not the same as evenly spread.
What moves the price of gold?
Real rates, the dollar and central bank demand — and why the instrument matters as much.
A crypto research checklist
Supply, liquidity, custody and contract risk, plus tokenised versions of familiar stocks.