Trading Guides & Insights
Master the art of risk management. Strategies, tips, and tutorials to help you stay profitable in the long run.
Leverage Is Not Your Friend: It's a Loan Shark with a Bat
Why retail traders keep getting demolished by leverage, and why your £500 account will never become £50,000 on a Friday night.
Revenge Trading: A Case Study in Setting Money on Fire
How losing £3,000 in a single afternoon turned into losing £47,000 by Friday. A cautionary tale about why your emotions are a bigger enemy than the market.
The 1% Rule: Boring, Unsexy, and the Only Reason I'm Rich
Why the most profitable traders follow the most boring rule in existence—and why you won't, because you're special.
Why Your Stop Loss is Just a Suggestion (And Why You're Broke)
A brutally honest take on why retail traders treat stop losses like optional DLC content, and why your account balance agrees with us.
Broker Regulation: Why Trading with Offshore Bucket Shops is Financial Self-Sabotage
A brutally honest guide to why unregulated brokers are basically casinos designed to take your money. Read this before you lose your flat.
Execution Speed: The Latency Myth That's Costing You More Than You Think
A veteran trader's honest take on whether milliseconds matter, why most retail traders obsess over the wrong things, and what actually separates the winners from the donation-makers.
Confluence: When the Stars Align (And You Still Manage to Lose Money)
A cynical trader's guide to why multiple technical signals don't guarantee profits—but they sure do make you feel smarter when you're wrong.
Fibonacci Retracements: Magic Lines or Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? A Trader's Honest Reckoning
After 20 years watching retail traders get destroyed by mystical numbers, I'm breaking down whether Fib levels are genius or just collective delusion dressed up in Greek mathematics.
Round Numbers and Round Losses: Why Your Brain is Your Worst Enemy in Forex
A brutally honest look at psychological price levels, round numbers, and why 1.5000 will destroy your account faster than any algorithm ever could.
Indices, Leverage, and the Art of Losing Your Shirt Very Quickly
Why trading US30 and NAS100 with leverage is like playing Russian roulette with a calculator—except the calculator is broken.
[Bitcoin](/calculator/btc) vs. Forex Volatility: Why Your Gut Feeling Is Worth Precisely Nothing
A brutally honest comparison of crypto and forex volatility—spoiler alert: both will humble you, but in different, equally painful ways.
[Gold](/calculator/gold) (XAUUSD) Volatility: The Widow Maker—Why Your Trading Account Isn't Safe
A brutally honest examination of why gold volatility has turned more retail traders into financial widows than any other asset. Spoiler: it's not the asset's fault.
The Dollar Index: Why Everyone's Broke Except the Ones Trading It Properly
A brutally honest guide to the DXY—the only index that matters more than your crypto bags and your therapist's salary combined.
Intermarket Analysis: Why Your Bond Portfolio Is About to Ruin Your Forex Account
A brutally honest guide to understanding how bonds, stocks, and currencies move together—and why most traders ignore it until they're bankrupt.
Why Position Sizing is the Holy Grail of Trading
Discover why the size of your trade matters more than your entry strategy, and how to use math to survive losing streaks.