Trading Journal & Psychology Blog
Should You Take Partial Profits in Futures?
Should you take partial profits in futures? Test scale-outs in R on your own trades and see when a partial helps and when a breakeven stop costs you.
What Is a Good Profit Factor in Trading?
What is a good profit factor? See the formula, the ranges traders cite, and why one outlier, fees or plan-breaking trades can make the number lie.
When to Stop Trading for the Day: 4 Triggers
When to stop trading for the day: combine a loss, count, time and state trigger into one written rule, with a table to set your own numbers.
How to Set a Daily Loss Limit for Futures
How to set a daily loss limit for futures: three ways to size the dollar number, a test on your own trades and what to do the moment you hit it.
Trading Cool-Down After a Loss: How Long?
A trading cool-down after a loss is a timed pause before your next entry. See how long to wait, how to set the rule and how to test it on your own trades.
Giving Back Profits in Trading: How to Stop It
Giving back profits in trading usually follows a green start: bigger size, extra trades, no stop point. See the dollar cost and set a give-back rule.
Pre Market Routine for Futures: A 10-Minute Plan
A pre market routine for futures traders that takes 10 minutes: check the calendar, mark levels, set limits and commit to rules before the first trade.
Tilt in Trading: What It Is and How to Recover
Tilt in trading is when emotion takes over your plan. Learn the warning signs, the triggers and a simple way to stop a session before it costs you more.
End of Day Trading Review: A 5-Minute Checklist
An end of day trading review for futures traders: a 5-minute checklist to tag trades, price mistakes in dollars and write one rule for tomorrow's session.
How to Review Your Trades Weekly in 20 Minutes
How to review your trades once a week in 20 minutes: pull the data, split plan-following from plan-breaking trades, price your mistakes and pick one fix.
How to Calculate R-Multiple in Trading (Futures)
How to calculate R-multiple in trading, with futures examples: the 1R formula, average R, expectancy and the habits that quietly distort your numbers.
FOMO Trading in Futures: How to Stop Chasing
FOMO trading turns good setups into late entries with bad risk-reward. See the dollar math with hypothetical numbers and the rules that stop you chasing.
What Is a Trading Journal? How to Keep One
What is a trading journal? A plain guide to what it records, what to write, how to review it and how futures traders keep one they will actually use.
Moving Your Stop Loss: What It Really Costs You
Moving stop loss mistakes explained: which moves are fine, which cost you, dollar math with hypothetical examples, and rules to stop widening mid-trade.
What to Do After a Losing Streak in Futures
What to do after a losing streak in futures: how normal streaks are, when to stop, how to cut size and return, with hypothetical dollar examples.
Why Do I Cut Winners Early? (And How to Stop)
Why do I cut winners early? The real reasons, what it costs in dollars with worked R examples, and the exit rules and reviews that help you hold to target.
Why Do I Keep Revenge Trading? The Real Reasons
Why do I keep revenge trading? Seven real causes, from loss aversion to evaluation pressure, plus how to find yours in your own trade data.
Overtrading Futures: How to Stop It
Overtrading futures quietly drains funded accounts. Learn how to spot it, what it costs in dollars and the trade caps, rules and reviews that stop it.
Free Trading Journal Template for Futures Traders
Free trading journal template for futures traders: the columns, Excel and Google Sheets formulas, mistake tags and weekly review routine that make it work.
Free Trading Journal: What to Look For and Where to Start
Looking for a free trading journal? Learn what free really means, which limits to check, and how futures traders can start without paying or losing data.
How to Stop Revenge Trading in Futures (A Practical System)
Revenge trading is the fastest way to blow a funded account. Learn how to spot it, measure its cost in dollars and build rules that actually stop it.
Trading Journal for Futures Traders: What to Track
What to track in a futures trading journal, how to review it, and how funded traders turn it into fewer mistakes. Includes tick values and a template.