Trading guides

Practical, plain-English guides to journaling, discipline, paper trading and portfolio tracking.

• How to keep a crypto trading journal (with a template)
  A practical way to journal crypto trades in a few minutes a day: what to record before, during and after a trade, a copy-paste template, and how to review it.
• Trading discipline: measuring what rule-breaking days cost you
  Turn 'be more disciplined' into something you can measure: write rules you can check, tag every day as kept or broken, and compare the results with honest statistics.
• Paper trading crypto with leverage: how to practise safely
  How leverage, margin and liquidation work, how to use a crypto paper trading account to learn them without risking money, and where simulators differ from real exchanges.
• How to track a crypto portfolio without connecting a wallet
  Track crypto holdings using only public addresses or manual entries: what a public address reveals, what you should never enter anywhere, and the trade-offs of each approach.
• Trading glossary: R-multiple, expectancy, drawdown, leverage and more
  Plain-English definitions of trading terms used in journals and paper trading: R-multiple, expectancy, win rate, drawdown, leverage, liquidation, funding, SMA/EMA, VWAP and Bollinger Bands.