Category Trading Guides

How to choose the best trading journal app: the features that matter, how popular journals like TraderSync, Tradervue, Edgewonk, TradesViz and Nummius differ, and spreadsheet vs app.

The best indicators for swing trading: moving averages, RSI, MACD, volume, ATR and relative strength. What each one tells you, good default settings and how to combine them without clutter.

How to choose the best charting platform for stocks and futures: the features that matter, how the popular platforms differ, and which fits beginners, swing traders and active traders.

Backtesting, forward testing and paper trading answer different questions. Learn what each one proves, their blind spots, and the order to use them before trading a strategy with real money.

Revenge trading turns one loss into many. Learn the warning signs, the psychology behind it, the math of escalating size, and a practical five-step plan with loss limits, cool-downs and journal reviews to break the cycle.

A beginner-friendly guide to point and figure charts: how Xs and Os are plotted, choosing box size and reversal, classic buy and sell signals, trend lines, and the horizontal and vertical counts used for price targets.

A plain-English guide to relative rotation graphs: what the two axes measure, the four quadrants, how to read tails and rotation, a practical sector rotation workflow, and the most common mistakes.

What the risk-reward ratio is, how to calculate it, the win rate you need to break even at each ratio, why expectancy matters more than either number alone, and how to use R-multiples in your journal.

A free position size calculator for stocks and futures, plus the formula behind it, worked examples for long, short and futures trades, and the mistakes that make traders risk more than they intend.

A step-by-step guide to backtesting a trading strategy: testable rules, clean data, manual vs automated backtests, realistic costs, the metrics to read, and how to avoid overfitting and look-ahead bias.