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Explore practical guides to trading concepts, risk, and backtesting. Search by keyword, difficulty, or topic to find your next lesson.
159 guides found
- IntermediateOctober 9, 2026
Trading Mentorship: Position Size, Profit Giveback, and Exit Decisions
Learn from Tori Trades’ mentorship conversation about position sizing, unrealized profit giveback, exit policies, and disciplined practice.
- AdvancedOctober 9, 2026
Automated NQ Breakouts: Evaluating the Backtest and Execution Risk
Evaluate a previous-day NQ breakout premise, proprietary backtest claims, futures execution costs, Monte Carlo limits, and a transparent Pine Script baseline.
- IntermediateOctober 9, 2026
Options Gamma Near Expiration: Why Delta Changes So Quickly
Understand gamma near expiration, changing delta, long-option convexity, and the limits of strike, IV-rank, and put/call interpretations.
- IntermediateOctober 8, 2026
The Trading Performance Reset: Build a Feedback Loop That Changes Execution
Build a trading feedback loop through cash-flow reconciliation, behavior tracking, explicit risk rules, and measured performance resets.
- BeginnerOctober 8, 2026
Candlestick Patterns at Key Levels: Engulfing, Wicks, and Momentum
Learn how engulfing candles, reaction wicks, and momentum candles relate to key levels, with a Pine Script context-comparison experiment.
- IntermediateOctober 8, 2026
EMA Cloud Pullbacks: Second-Chance Entries and Holding Winners
Study shallow and deep EMA-cloud pullbacks, key-level confluence, trade invalidation, and a Pine Script second-chance entry experiment.
- IntermediateOctober 8, 2026
How to Reduce Overtrading with Windows, Caps, and Circuit Breakers
Use trading windows, entry caps, circuit breakers, and separate process and outcome reviews to investigate overtrading.
- AdvancedOctober 8, 2026
Large-Cap Scalping: Ranges, Momentum, and Execution Risk
Study three large-cap scalping styles, execution friction, averaging-down risk, and a Pine Script range-rejection experiment.
- BeginnerOctober 7, 2026
Low-Pass Trading Bands: Smoothing, Breakouts and Signal Tradeoffs
ChartPrime’s filtered-band concept explained, with an independent EMA/ATR Pine Script experiment exploring smoothing length, breakout thresholds and execution costs.
- AdvancedOctober 7, 2026
Staged Trade Management: Partial Profits, Adds and Runner Stops
Oliver Velez’s staged management explained through risk ledgers, partial exits and add-on protection, with a Pine Script comparison of runner trails and fixed targets.
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