Master the mental game — emotions, discipline, mindset and cognitive biases that determine trading success.
Your backtest does not hesitate. It does not skip the trade after two losses, widen a stop because the news looked bad, or take a setup that was not on the list because the tape felt right. Your backtest is…
Legendary Traders · Market Wizards Michael Marcus The First Market Wizard, Who Turned $30,000 Into $80 Million Commodities Corporation legend · 1947–2023 · The opening interview in Schwager’s Market Wizards Last reviewed: August 2026. Figures are drawn from Jack Schwager’s…
Trader’s Library · Book Review The Black Swan by Nassim N. Taleb Explore all 80 books in the Trader’s Library → Some books teach you a strategy. The Black Swan teaches you why most strategies eventually break, and why the…
Legendary Traders · Market Wizards Lance Breitstein The Prop Trader Who Made Nearly $100 Million, Then Chose His Time Over More Money Known online as The One Lance B · Chapter two of Market Wizards: The Next Generation Last reviewed:…
Notice what happens in your body the moment before you break a rule. There is a small release. Adding to the losing position eases the discomfort of being wrong. Closing the winner early ends the tension of watching profit fluctuate.…
EP14 · The Trader’s Physical Edge External Systems Build the scaffolding that does the work willpower cannot. Pillar 5 of 5 · ENVIRONMENT The trader who blames their last loss on a lapse of discipline is almost always wrong. Not…
Every version of the Turtle story is told from Richard Dennis’s side. He made the bet, he placed the advertisement, he taught the system, and he was proved right. William Eckhardt is the footnote. The man who said it could…
Alex Hormozi's $100M framework applied to trading: the Value Equation for trade selection, volume negates luck for sample size, and input-output thinking for systematic improvement. The operational mindset that treats trading as a business worth optimising.
A trader breaks his rules, doubles his size, holds through the stop, and closes the position for a 4R gain. What did he learn? Something, certainly. The question is whether what he learned will help him or eventually end him.…
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…
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…
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…
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