How to build a trading watchlist for price action: what qualifies a ticker, the weekly review habit, and why a short list beats a fifty-name screener dump.
How to calculate a risk to reward ratio from real chart levels, not a picked number — with a worked trade and the win-rate math behind it.
How to avoid overtrading isn’t about willpower. A level-based system caps how many trades you can take before the day starts. Here’s the mechanism.
How to trade a small account with price action alone — level selection, position sizing, and a worked example sized for a few thousand dollars.
Where to place a stop loss isn’t a percentage or a dollar amount. It’s just beyond the level that justified the trade. Two real trades, one that got clipped.
How to journal your trades when you trade price action: log the level, the touch count, and the outcome — then review failures weekly for a pattern.
How to calculate position size from a fixed dollar risk and stop distance, with three worked examples — the price-action way to size a trade.
Everyone knows the definition of a stop-loss by week two. Almost nobody keeps one. Here is the exact NVDA trade where I found out why, with the real numbers.
Real risk management happens before entry, not during. Why stops and sizing fail when set emotionally, and how level-based price action fixes it.