Position sizing, risk-reward ratios, drawdown management and long-term capital preservation.
Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE) tells you exactly how far winning trades typically move against you before recovering — and uses that data to set better stops. A complete guide to collecting, analysing, and applying MAE data to your ICT trading.
The 7 trading performance metrics that actually matter: expectancy, win rate, R:R, profit factor, max drawdown, MAE, and trade frequency. Learn how to calculate each, what targets to aim for, and how to build a performance dashboard.
MAE shows where your entries are inefficient. MFE shows where you're leaving money behind. This advanced trade review guide covers the exact metrics, weekly structure, and monthly analysis that transforms a journal from a record into a performance system.
Every profitable strategy produces drawdowns. The question is not how to avoid them — it is how to survive them with your capital and psychology intact. This is the complete tiered drawdown management system.
How to structure trades where you can be wrong 60% of the time and still be profitable. A complete guide to asymmetric risk including the expectancy framework, ICT setup structure, and trade management rules that protect your R multiples.
How to set a weekly loss limit that protects your capital and actually holds. Covers threshold calculation, behavioural anchors, the psychology of why most traders ignore their own limits, and how to enforce yours mechanically.
How to use the Kelly Criterion for optimal position sizing in trading. Covers the full formula, why fractional Kelly is essential, how to calculate it from your actual win rate and R multiples, and how to use it as an edge validation tool.
A 40% win rate strategy can be highly profitable. A 70% win rate strategy can be destroying your account. The number that matters is expectancy — and this guide shows you exactly how to calculate it from your journal data.
A trading plan is not a document you write once. It is the operational system that governs every decision you make while markets are open. This is the complete template — with every section, every rule, and every question you need to answer before your next live trade.
How to trade multiple timeframes simultaneously without compounding your risk exposure. A practical position sizing framework covering HTF/LTF alignment, staggered entries, and the rules that prevent one macro event from wiping two setups at once.
Everything traders need to know about trading taxes. Covers tax frameworks by country, essential record-keeping, common mistakes, entity structures, prop firm tax treatment, and when to hire a tax professional.
Learn how to trade tariff announcements and trade war volatility. Covers the four phases of a tariff-driven trading day, position protection protocols, the best instruments for trade war setups, and three proven patterns for trading the aftermath.
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