Trading discipline, honestly.
Essays on discipline, in-plan rate, tilt, and the structural fixes that actually work. Written for prop firm traders on MT5, but useful to anyone trying to turn a plan into consistent behaviour.
- ·6 min read·Discipline / Journals
Why trading journals don't stop overtrading
Most trading journals are museums of past mistakes. They log the bad trade, chart it, tag it — and then let you do it again tomorrow. Here's why, and what a journal would have to do differently to actually change behaviour.
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- ·7 min read·Prop Firms / Psychology
The real reason traders blow funded accounts
It's almost never the strategy. It's the gap between the trades the plan said to take and the trades you actually took. Here's what that gap looks like and how to close it.
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- ·6 min read·Metrics / Discipline
In-plan rate: the metric that matters more than P&L
P&L is downstream noise. The upstream signal is your in-plan rate — the percentage of your trades that matched a pre-defined setup. Measure it and everything else gets easier.
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- ·5 min read·Metrics / Risk
R-multiples explained: how to actually measure your edge
R-multiples strip out account size, currency, and pair — leaving a pure read on your edge. Here's the definition, the math, and why every trade should be logged in R.
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- ·7 min read·Prop Firms / Plans
How to build a trading plan prop firms actually respect
A trading plan that survives an FTMO challenge is not a PDF. It's a short list of rules, each one enforceable, each one measurable. Here's the template.
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- ·5 min read·Psychology / Discipline
Three structural fixes for tilt that don't depend on willpower
Tilt is a state, not a character flaw. Willpower is unreliable against state. Here are three structural fixes that work for every trader, ranked by reliability.
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