/ Lessons
Short, opinionated lessons in my voice — not an encyclopedia. Each one kills a myth, teaches one concept, and ends with something you can do today. Depth beats breadth, every time.
You keep asking “how much did I make?” I want you asking “how many R?”
Dollars make you emotional. Percent makes your brain back-calculate dollars anyway.
A 40%-win system can be profitable. A 70%-win system can bleed. Here is why.
Hindsight turns every winner into an “A setup.” It is the most comfortable lie in trading.
Your broker export shows profit. Whether it also shows R comes down to one thing: did the stop you set survive the export?
A positive edge still goes to zero if every trade risks too much. Size is the variable that kills accounts.
Every edge has losing stretches. The depth of the drawdown, not the losses themselves, is what ends accounts.
One session can quietly bleed while the rest of your book pays. And you control when you trade.
Your best days are rarely your busiest. Volume and quality pull apart under pressure.
An edge that worked can quietly stop working. The lifetime average hides it — for a while.
Fees, spread, and slippage are paid on every trade — win or lose. A thin edge can vanish into them.
Jumping straight back in after a loss is emotion, not a setup. The gap before your next entry is measurable.
The same skill could have dealt you a very different curve — better or worse. Yours is one roll of the dice, not the verdict.