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Market notes, written to be understood once.

Forex, gold, Bitcoin, risk and social trading — short articles with the numbers worked out. New pieces most weeks.

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How much of your savings belongs in leveraged markets (less than you think)

Not a lecture — a method. How to decide the amount to copy with, why it starts with what you would not miss, and the four questions that set the number.

11 June 2026Read →
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Revenge trading, and why copying removes the temptation

The loss that leads to a bigger loss. What revenge trading is, why every trader has done it, the three habits that stop it, and the one structural advantage a copier has over a trader.

4 June 2026Read →
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Why win rate is the most misleading number on a profile

A 90% win rate can lose money and a 35% win rate can make it. The arithmetic of expectancy, why high win rates often hide the worst risk, and what to read instead.

28 May 2026Read →
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Correlation risk: three masters who are really one trade

Following several masters feels safer than following one. It is — only if their trades are actually different. How to tell, using nothing but their instrument lists and a week of watching.

21 May 2026Read →
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Stop-loss, auto-stop and the difference between them

Two protections with similar names that work at different levels: the master’s stop on each trade, and your stop on the whole copy. What each does, what neither can do, and how to set the second.

14 May 2026Read →
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Position sizing: the 1% rule and why copiers get it for free

The rule that keeps professional traders in business, the arithmetic that justifies it, and how proportional copying hands it to you without a calculator.

7 May 2026Read →
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The recovery table: why a 50% loss needs a 100% gain

The arithmetic that every trader learns the hard way, worked through with a $10,000 account — and the three decisions it should change about how you copy.

30 April 2026Read →
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Drawdown: the number that decides whether you survive

Return tells you what a master made. Drawdown tells you what they nearly lost. The definition, the maths of recovery, and why the second column on a profile is the one to read first.

23 April 2026Read →