The Checklist You Run Before You Click
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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