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Consistent trading profits usually come from modest wins taken regularly with losses kept to one percent, not from chasing the big number. A near target has fewer le…
Crypto is manipulated in places: large participants can move price and push into areas where orders cluster, because they need that liquidity. But nobody is targetin…
Most traders move through three stages: looking for the answer, knowing what to do but not doing it, and following the rules until it gets boring. Many stall because…
Following crypto signal groups or trading calls is not trading, even when the calls are honest and good. A followed trade cannot be managed because its reasoning was…
Trading with a full-time job works when the timeframe suits the constraint — for most people, the 4-hour and daily charts, checked once in the morning and once at ni…
To start trading crypto, build a process before risking real money: decide whether you are investing or trading, learn to read market structure, cap each trade at on…
A pre-trade checklist is a written list of conditions that must all be present before a trade qualifies. Any checklist worth running covers four things in order: tre…
The best crypto indicators are the few you could trade without: Craig keeps two moving averages and a MACD line, as context rather than signals. Most indicators are…
Candlestick patterns in crypto are a record of what buyers and sellers did over a set period, not a prediction of the next candle. Location is what gives a candle me…
Decide where to take profit before entering, while still neutral. Targets come from the chart — the next horizontal level where price has a real reason to stall — no…
Risk about 1% of your account per trade, meaning a trade that hits its stop loses 1% of the account — not that 1% goes into the position. Position size comes from ac…
Knowing when not to trade starts with inverting the question: instead of looking for a reason to enter, look for a reason to leave the chart alone. The trades that s…
The only trend reversal pattern you need is a break in market structure. An uptrend of higher highs and higher lows ends when price fails to make a higher high, then…
Leverage is not the same as risk: it sets how much margin is locked up to hold a position, while position size and distance to your stop decide what you can lose. A…
Sloping trend lines are a judgement call — wicks or bodies, which lows count, when to redraw — so traders tend to draw the line that agrees with the view they alread…
Technical analysis describes a chart; a trading strategy decides what to do about it. A strategy answers five questions before every trade: what has to be true to ta…
The golden cross is not a reliable buy signal. It is simply the 50-day moving average crossing above the 200-day — arithmetic about where price has already been, so…
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