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Notes on trading behavior, small-sample statistics, and how we verify what we publish.
5 min readBehaviourThe trade count creeps up the day after a red one
Each trade the day after a loss has a reason, and the count is the only place the day shows. Two piles, two averages and one division.
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5 min readProp rulesA winning day and a trading day are not the same unit
Four trading days and five winning days are different distances. On the firms’ own pages, read 24 October 2026, the gap between them can be one dollar a day.
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4 min readYour numbersYou hold your losers longer than your winners, and the log says by how much
Median minutes held on losers, divided by median minutes held on winners. Two columns and one division, and you can have the answer before the market reopens.
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5 min readProp rulesThe payout moves the floor: three rules that change once you are funded
The consistency number changes what it gates, the floor changes shape, and the first payout can cut your cushion to a quarter. On the firms’ own pages, read 5 October 2026.
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6 min readProp rulesYou passed the challenge. The news and weekend rules did not come with you.
The evaluation and the funded account are two documents. On the pages of three firms, the news window and the weekend hold both change on the day you pass.
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4 min readBehaviourAveraging down lowers your break-even and raises your bet
The average entry falls, the position doubles, and the trade that was already failing becomes the largest one you hold.
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4 min readJournalingA journal you only fill in after wins can only say you are doing fine
A log with the worst days missing does not look incomplete. It looks like a trader who is doing well, and that is the problem.
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4 min readYour numbersR-multiple: the unit that tells a good trade from a big one
Dollars tell you how big a trade was. R tells you how it went, measured against what you were willing to lose.
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4 min readBehaviourRevenge trading is a number before it is a feeling
The feeling is easy to argue with afterwards. How many trades you took is not, and it is already in your log.
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4 min readProp rulesWhat a challenge fee actually buys, in pass-rate terms
The fee is not the price of a funded account. It is the price of one attempt, and the arithmetic that follows from that is worth doing before the next one.
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4 min readYour numbers“I moved my stop” is a sentence with a number underneath it
The habit is easy to admit and hard to size. Four columns and one subtraction turn a confession into a figure you can watch fall.
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4 min readBehaviourThe rules you write on Sunday and the person who breaks them on Wednesday
A rule you have to obey needs the worst version of you to cooperate at the worst moment. The rules that hold are the ones that stopped needing you.
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3 min readProp rulesThe day your drawdown rule changes and nobody sends an email
The rules that matter are not the ones on the website. They are the ones attached to your account, and they can move three different ways.
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4 min readYour numbersHow many trades before your numbers mean anything
Your win rate needs hundreds of trades before it settles. What you actually did needs about twenty, and that is the more useful half of the log.
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3 min readBehaviourYour best day can be the reason you fail
Nothing changes size after a loss. Everybody watches for that. The size that moves quietly is the one after a run of wins.
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3 min readBehaviourThe stop you move is a decision you already made, being made again under pressure
You set the stop when you knew the most and felt the least. Moving it is the same decision, taken again by someone with worse information.
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4 min readBehaviourA green day that was still a bad day
Traders grade themselves down on days they made money, and they are usually right to. The scoreboard you keep decides which habits survive.
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4 min readProp rulesYour firm has one of four drawdown rules, and they are not variations of each other
Two traders take the same trades on the same day. One passes and one breaches. The rule underneath the account decided it before either of them clicked.
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4 min readBehaviourNaming the Patterns, Starting with Stop-Widening
Trading education has no shortage of advice, and none of it is specific enough to catch yourself doing the thing in the moment it is happening.
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4 min readYour numbersThe 95% Win Rate That Wasn’t
Every trader has seen the screenshot: a stretch of trades so clean it looks unbeatable. Somewhere in the replies, someone asks the only question that matters: over how many trades?
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