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Risk of ruin: How bet size decides if your account survives
Risk of ruin is the chance that a run of losses takes your account down to a point you can’t come back from. I simulated 1,000 trades, 10,000 times…
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Book Reviews
Benjamin Graham – The Intelligent Investor – Review
The Intelligent Investor is the book that turned Warren Buffett away from charts. I read it as someone who still uses them, and I’d still put it on…
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Risk reward ratio: Why it means nothing without the win rate
The risk reward ratio compares what a trade can lose, from the entry to the stop, with what it can make, from the entry to the target. Risk $1 to…
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Bitcoin halving dates 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024: What came next
Bitcoin has had four halvings: 28 November 2012, 9 July 2016, 11 May 2020 and 20 April 2024. After each one the price peaked 371 to 546 days later…
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How do prop firms make money? A coin-flipper’s $50K challenge
Prop firms make most of their money from challenge fees, not from trading. At Topstep, even the funded account you earn by passing is simulated – the…
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Fair value gap (FVG): A test on 26 years of S&P 500 data
A fair value gap (FVG) is a three-candle pattern: the first candle’s high and the third candle’s low don’t overlap, and the empty space between them…