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Buy and Sell Trading: Rules That Survive Live Markets
"Buy low, sell high" is a slogan, not a system. If you searched for buy and sell trading, you want something tighter: a way to decide *when* to enter, *where* to exit, and *how much* to risk that doesn't unravel the moment the market gets ugly.
14 min readDay Trading Strategies: Setups That Hold Up Live
Most day trading "strategies" online are screenshots of perfect entries with no exit, no stop, and no statistics behind them. If you've tried trading them, you've found out the hard way that they fall apart the moment real spreads, slippage, and your own hesitation enter the picture.
13 min readPaper Trading: How to Use It Without Fooling Yourself
Paper trading sounds harmless. You test ideas, build muscle memory, and learn the platform — all without risking capital. But most paper accounts lie to you in three ways: fills are too generous, slippage is invisible, and emotions are absent. Traders who go live after months of "profitable" paper trading often blow up in their first 30 sessions.
15 min readTrading Strategy: Build Rules That Survive Live Markets
A trading strategy that lives on a chart screenshot is a trading idea. A strategy that compounds over years is a rule set you can describe in one page, test against history, automate without ambiguity, and run when you're tired, distracted, or wrong about the market.
16 min readTypes of Trading: Find the Style That Fits Your Life
The wrong trading style isn't merely unprofitable — it's exhausting. A day trader who can only check screens at lunch fights against the market and against their own life. A position trader chasing intraday noise will outwork their edge.
14 min readSmall Account Trading Strategy: A Realistic Plan for Accounts Under $10,000
How to trade a small account without blowing it up: rules that survive the PDT restriction, position sizing that fits a four-figure balance, and automation that removes the most expensive mistakes.
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