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Operations · Testing
What Is Overfitting in Trading?
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Operations · Costs
What Are Market Data Fees?
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Operations · Testing
What Is Look Ahead Bias in Backtesting?
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Operations · Metrics
What Does Profit Factor Mean in Trading?
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Operations · Capital
Prop Firm vs Broker: Who Holds the Money?
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Operations · Hours
How Many Hours a Week Should I Trade?
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Operations · Continuity
What Happens If My Internet Goes Out While Trading?
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Operations · Recovery
How to Recover From a Trading Loss
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Operations · Capital spending
How Much Should I Spend on My Trading Setup?
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Operations · Bookkeeping
What Is the Best Trading Journal?
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Operations · Payouts
How to Calculate Consistency Rule in Trading
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Operations · Downtime
Should I Take a Break From Trading?
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Operations · Measurement
What Currency Should My Trading Account Be In?
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Operations · Structure
How to Register Trade Licence Paperwork
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Operations · Measurement
How to Calculate Real Rate of Return
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Operations · Systems
Key Person Risk in Your Trading Business
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Operations · Systems
Year End Review for Your Trading Business
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Operations · Systems
Trading Following the Trend Strategy
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Metrics · Reporting
What Is Risk Adjusted Return Sharpe Ratio
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Operations · Systems
EA vs Manual Trading
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Operations · Costs
Trading Choppy Market Conditions
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Operations · Continuity
What Happens If Your Broker Platform Goes Down
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Operations · Throughput
How to Not Over Trade
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Risk · Contract size
Risk Management Future Trading
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Structure · Where trade happened
Trading With Market Profile
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Operations · Year-end close
When to Stop Trading in December
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Structure · Shutdown line
When Should You Quit Trading
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Risk · Input pricing
Trading in Volatile Markets
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Risk · Capacity
How to Scale Forex Account Size
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Structure · Business model
Prop Firm vs Hedge Fund
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Risk · Limits
The Trading 1 Percent Rule
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Operations · Structure
How to Open a Trading Company
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Operations · Records
How to Keep a Trading Journal Like a Professional
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Operations · Bookkeeping
How Long to Keep Tax Records Sole Trader Rules Require
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Operations · Automation
How to Automate TradingView Strategy Execution and Keep It Running
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Operations · Execution
How to Place Same Order in Multiple Trading Accounts, and What It Costs
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Operations · Due diligence
Forex Scam or Legit? The Check a Business Owner Runs First
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Operations · Unit economics
What Is a Good Expectancy Ratio in Trading? Ask What It Has to Cover
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Operations · Feasibility
How to Know If Trading Is for You, a Four Test Feasibility Check
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Operations · Business continuity
When Do They Halt Trading on a Stock, and What It Costs You
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Operations · Business continuity
What Happens If My Brokerage Account Is Hacked, and What Actually Protects You
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Operations · Execution costs
What Is Impact Cost in Trading, the Cost That Grows With Your Size
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Operations · Position limits
Maximum Lot Size Forex: The Broker's Ceiling Is Not Yours
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Operations · Capacity
Opportunity Cost vs Trade Off: What a Trading Business Gives Up Every Time It Acts
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Operations · Cost control
What Happens If You Fail a Prop Firm Challenge, and What It Actually Costs
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Operations · Risk ceilings
How to Know When to Stop Trading, the Business Owner's Version
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Operations · Bookkeeping
How to Keep Track of Day Trading for Taxes, as a Bookkeeping System
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Operations · Due diligence
How to Test an EA on MT5, and What the Result Entitles You to Believe
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Operations · Equipment register
How to Use VPS for Forex Trading, and How to Tell If You Need One
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Operations · Controls register
How to Protect Your Account From Hackers, as a Business Control
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Operations · One book, many logins
How to Manage Multiple Trading Accounts as One Business
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The books · Return over risk
What Is a Good Risk Adjusted Return, and How Do You Score Your Own
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Cash flow · Pricing an attempt
How to Get Funded by a Prop Firm, Priced Like a Business Decision
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The books · Measuring variance
How to Calculate Consistency in Trading, and What Normal Actually Looks Like
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Operations · The holding decision
How Long Can a Trade Stay Open? Price the Waiting First
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Operations · The build decision
Can I Automate My Trading Strategy? What the Backtest Will Not Tell You
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Operations · The counterparty
How Do Prop Firms Make Money, and What That Tells You About Your Account
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Operations · The control system
The Trading Rules Checklist That Survives a Bad Week
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Operations · The model itself
Your Trading Business Model: What You Sell and What It Costs
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Operations · The mindset decision
How to Think Like a Professional Trader Mark Douglas Described
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Operations · The capacity decision
Part Time Trading Strategy: Build the Operation Around the Hours You Have
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Operations · The growth decision
How to Start Compound Trading Without Betting the Business On It
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Operations · The constraints
Trading Rules and Regulations: What They Let Your Account Do
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Method · Written definitions
How to Identify Trend in Trading When Noise Looks Exactly the Same
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Operations · The working day
The Forex Trading Daily Routine That Fits the Hours You Actually Have
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Operations · The cost base
Weekly Trading vs Day Trading: Which Cost Base Can You Afford?
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Operations · The system
How to Build a Trading System You Can Actually Run
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Operations · Your hours
How to Day Trade With a Full Time Job
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The books · Early warning
Leading and Lagging Indicators in Your Trading Business
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The books · Real exposure
Concentration Risk: When Every Trade You Own Is the Same Trade
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The books · Measurement
Why Measuring Trading Results in Pips Hurts Your Business
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The books · Retire the line
When to Retire a Trading Strategy That Stopped Working
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Reading the market · Five rules
What Is Price Action Trading? The Five Rules That Matter
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The books · Know your floor
What Is the Break-Even Point of Your Trading Business
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Operations · Run the open trade
Managing an Open Trade Like a Business
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Operations · Close the week
How to Run a Weekly Review for Your Trading Business
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Decision · Do not leap early
When Should You Go Full-Time as a Trader
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Operations · The opening routine
How to Build a Pre-Market Routine for Your Trading Business
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Capital · Pay the operator
How to Pay Yourself from Your Trading Business
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Capital · Build a reserve
How to Build a Cash Reserve for Your Trading Business
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Operations · Know your numbers
The Key Metrics Every Trading Business Should Track
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Continuity · Survive the shock
How Your Trading Business Survives a Market Shock
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Operations · Your trading shift
Running the London Session Like a Business
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Operations · The monthly review
The Monthly Profit and Loss Review Every Trader Needs
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Growth · Scale like an operator
When to Scale Up: Growing Your Trading Like a Business
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Operations · Know your numbers
Fixed vs Variable Costs: The Numbers Most Traders Never Run
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Psychology · Run it like an operator
Managing Your Trading Psychology Like a Business
Read →FOMO · Don't chase
You Missed the Trade, Now What? Why Chasing Is Bad Business
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Brokers
How to vet a broker like a business partner
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Exits · Take profit like a business
How to Take Profit Like a Business: Scale Out, Don't Guess the Top
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Patience · The quiet market
What a Business Owner Does When the Market Goes Quiet
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Mindset · Keep what you make
Making Money Is the Easy Part, Keeping It Is the Business
Read →Business · Market review
How to Review the Trend Like a Business Owner, Not a Gambler
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Business · Monthly targets
How to Set Realistic Monthly Targets for Your Trading Business
Read →Mindset · Knowing vs doing
The Gap Between Knowing and Doing (and Why It Empties Accounts)
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Mindset · The cost of doing business
Is a Losing Trade a Business Expense?
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Journal · The template
The Trade Journal Template That Actually Changes How You Trade
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Risk · Position sizing
Position Sizing for Gold Trading, Without the Maths Headache
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Risk · The ceiling
How to Manage Risk in Gold Trading: The Risk Ceiling
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Trade like a business
How to Treat Trading Like a Business
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Risk · Diagnosis
Why Do Most Traders Blow Their Accounts?
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Template · Do it tonight
Your One-Page Trading Business Plan Template
Read →YOUR TRADING WORKSPACE
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Explore →Trading tools
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Explore →Quizzes & glossary
Check your understanding and look up unfamiliar terms.
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Four foundations for a more disciplined process.
01
MINDSET
Think like an operator
Start with a plan, a risk ceiling and a repeatable routine.
Read the lesson →02RISK
Protect your capital
Connect your monthly loss limit to each individual trade.
Read the lesson →03EXECUTION
Size the trade
Understand how your risk budget and stop set your position size.
Read the lesson →04REVIEW
Keep the books
Record decisions and review what your results are telling you.
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How it’s posted
Rex · Trading Signal
🟡 Gold (XAU/USD), the plan, before entry
Entry: decided while I’m calm, before the candle moves
❌ Stop loss: set first, what I’m willing to lose
Target & reason: defined and written down
The stop loss comes before the profit.
Why it’s written this way: I decide what I’m willing to lose while I’m calm, before the candle moves. That fixed risk is the cost of doing business, planned in advance.
The rule: no setup goes out without a stop and a reason. Every trade, wins and losses alike.
This is the shape of every post, a plan and a reason, never a “buy now” command. Real setups go out live on Telegram, wins and losses alike.
Who’s behind the channel
I treat a trading account the way I ran my company: with books, rules, and risk limits.
Rex
Operator, five years
Trader by discipline
Operator, five years
Trader by discipline
For five years I signed the purchase orders, capped the costs, and audited the numbers every night. Then I handed three years of company profit to a “fixed returns, zero risk” promise, and one morning it was simply gone.
I tried to win it back fast and burned four accounts doing it. What finally worked wasn’t a strategy anyone sells you. It was a notebook: every trade planned before entry, journaled after exit, losers written down first. The account stopped dying.
This channel is that notebook out loud, gold setups and the reasons behind them. Watch how I handle the losses, not just the wins. That’s where the method actually lives.
, Rex
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The three rules
Three rules I never break.
01
Every signal has a stop loss
Before you think about profit, you decide what you’re willing to lose. Capital is oxygen, you protect it first.
02
I post my losses
The losers go on the board next to the winners. A channel that only shows wins is selling a feeling, not a method.
03
I never promise profit
Nobody honestly can. I promise the reasoning behind each trade and a stop loss on every one. That’s the whole deal.
Straight answer
“If it’s free, how do you make money?”
Fair question, it’s the first one I’d ask too. Here’s the honest answer, with nothing hidden.
When you trade through the broker I partner with, I earn a standard commission from the broker, not from your pocket, and never tied to whether you win or lose. That’s what keeps the daily channel free for everyone.
So why do I also sell a Kit and a members’ room? Because those aren’t the free channel behind a paywall, they’re my time and my team: the book I wrote, the live calls I show up for, and a crew that answers members every single day. You’re paying for hours and hands, not for a secret, and it starts at just $9.
So, to be clear:
I always will
- Keep the daily channel & the business plan genuinely free.
- Keep the free channel funded by a standard broker commission, not your wallet. The Kit is the one thing you choose to pay for.
- Put the reason behind every trade, and a stop loss on all of them.
I never will
- Manage your money or touch your account.
- Promise profit, income, or a win rate.
- Pressure you to deposit “before it’s too late.”
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The book · 11 chapters
Open For Business.
Your capital is inventory. Your cost of goods is the risk you decide while you’re calm, long before the candle moves. A losing day isn’t a crisis, it’s a line item.
Eleven chapters carry that one idea from the first entry to the nightly close, and it ends with the three questions I ask before I shut the shop each night.
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Watch how I trade the losses, not just the wins.
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