Most sizing advice is a formula: risk 1%, divide by your stop, done. What the formula hides is the floor — the broker's minimum lot. On a small account, the minimum lot can risk MORE than your cap bef
Ask a small contractor what a job costs and you'll get a number. Ask what the customer actually owes — subtotal, tax, deposit, balance on completion — and the number gets built live, on a napkin, diff
Journaling advice usually stops at "write everything down." Storage isn't feedback. I wanted a grade: fixed bars, printed in the open, same verdict every run. So the grader reads a journal CSV and com
A small shop's money problems are rarely the work. They're the loop around the work: Quote goes out late (or from a notebook) → invoice drifts from the quote → nobody follows up → a bad review gets an
Most trade plans I see fail before the entry is even discussed. Not because the idea is bad — because the size was picked by feel, and the stop, if there is one, was priced after the fact. Position si