The S&P 500 is the number the entire financial world measures itself against. When a fund manager says they “beat the market,” this is the market they mean. When your retirement account rises or falls, this is usually why. It…
Ask a trader why they took a setup and you will hear a story. The structure looked clean, the level held, momentum was building. Ask how often that setup has actually worked for them and the story runs out. Somewhere…
Every trader knows what tilt looks like from the outside: the doubled size, the instant re-entry, the session that ends with an account down 8% and a keyboard slightly worse for wear. What most traders do not know is their…
Trader’s Library · Book Review The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham Explore all 80 books in the Trader’s Library → Here is the honest tension at the heart of reviewing this book on a trading site: Benjamin Graham would not…
Every time a card taps a terminal, somewhere in the world, a few cents move. Not to the shopper, not to the shop, but to the company that owns the road the money travels on. We have already met one…
Cutting a loser is the simplest action in trading. One click, risk gone, plan honoured. Yet the same trader who calmly takes profits at the first sign of weakness will sit in a losing position for hours, negotiating with a…
GREATEST TRADERS · EPISODE 35 Jim Rogers The Adventure Capitalist Who Co-Founded the Quantum Fund ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music In March 1990, a forty-seven-year-old retired American hedge fund manager…
These two platforms come up against each other constantly in search, and the comparison is slightly misleading before you even start. ATAS is an order flow platform that has added other tools. MotiveWave is an Elliott Wave and technical analysis…
Most traders do not have a rules problem. They have a rules inventory problem. Their trading plan runs to two pages of numbered commandments, and under pressure they follow perhaps four of them. The rest are decorations: rules written to…
EP13 · The Trader’s Physical Edge The Trading Week Architecture Build a week that compounds. Not a week that grinds. Pillar 5 of 5 · ENVIRONMENT Most retail traders treat the trading week as a five-day grind with a weekend…
Ask a struggling trader for their win rate and they will usually know it. Ask for their average win and average loss in R, and the room goes quiet. That silence is expensive, because a win rate on its own…
Brian Tracy's Eat That Frog principle, ABCDE prioritisation, and goal-setting framework transform chaotic trading into structured professional practice. Do the hard preparation first, eliminate low-impact activities, and let the discipline compound.
Every blown account has a belief underneath it, and it is usually this one: the idea that the market should give something back. Back the losses, back the time, back the effort. Traders rarely say it out loud. It shows…
The story of the greatest manufacturer the world has ever produced does not begin with a car. It begins with a loom. In the early twentieth century, a self-taught Japanese inventor named Sakichi Toyoda built a weaving loom unlike any…
Ray Dalio is quoted in more trading journals than almost any writer who has never published a trading book. Principles is not about entries, stops or setups. It is a 592-page operating manual for making decisions when you do not…
Trader’s Library · Head to Head Van Tharp vs Alexander Elder on Position Sizing Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom against The New Trading for a Living Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom Van K. Tharp · 1998 · 9.0/10…
Trader’s Library · Head to Head Market Wizards vs Market Wizards: The Next Generation Jack Schwager, 1989 and 2026 · Thirty-seven years apart · Same question, different traders Market Wizards Jack D. Schwager · 1989 · 9.0/10 Get it on…
Trader’s Library · Head to Head Trading in the Zone vs The Disciplined Trader Both by Mark Douglas · Ten years apart · One of them is the wrong place to start Trading in the Zone Mark Douglas · 2000…
Joel Greenblatt published a formula that beat the market, told everybody exactly how it worked, and watched it continue to beat the market. That should be impossible. An edge announced in a bestseller ought to be arbitraged into nothing within…
GREATEST TRADERS · EPISODE 34 Anthony Bolton Britain’s Star Stock Picker for 28 Years ▶ Watch on YouTube🎵 Listen on Spotify Also available on Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music In October two thousand and three, the most powerful media baron…
More trading fortunes have been made and destroyed on the NASDAQ than on any other index in the modern era. It is the home of the companies that rewired the world — and the venue for the fastest, most emotional…
Hyman Minsky spent a career arguing something that sounds like a paradox and is a mechanism. Stability is destabilising. A long calm period does not reduce the probability of a crisis. It manufactures one, and it does so through the…
SNAPSHOT · 4 AUGUST 2026 SpaceX reported its first quarterly results as a public company after the US close on Tuesday. Revenue of $7.81 billion beat consensus near $6.9 billion. Adjusted EBITDA of $3.5 billion beat $2.0 billion. The net…
Charlie Munger said he had underestimated the power of incentives his whole life, and he was not a man who underestimated things. His formulation is worth memorising. Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. Not because…
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