The Collected Blog

Trading notes from a profitable auto and semi-auto trader

How to trade range breaks and breakouts

What is a range break, and how should you trade it?
My trading checklist - for consistency

Keep yourself on track with a checklist for every trade and session
How trading, jazz, freestyling are neurally correlated

Ideas to unlock and control your trading potential
One final hestitation before starting

Some further delays and prep work to do
Further work on trading system stability

Ensuring I know what I'm doing going into next challenge
Starting the prop challenge retry

Time to get the next prop challenge started, but first some prep
Return to breakeven - a prop story

Recovery operation completed, with notes on how
Prop challenge account recovery journal

How I am recovering a prop account that swung down to over -2%
Supply, demand and liquidity - uses and automation

How to make use of supply, demand and liquidity zones for better entries and exits
Starting a prop challenge in 2022

Considerations for starting a new prop firm challenge in 2022
The Wikipedia Trading Course

Using Wikipedia to kickstart your trading education
Find support and resistance automatically

How to approach Support and Resistance plotting with automation
Rogue waves and chaos theory in financial markets

Can the chaotic swings of the Earth's oceans be mirrored in financial markets?
Demo of trading bot for forex - an intro

A diversified automated forex trading system that swings and scalps
Displaying live price quotes (and world times and unread email) in your i3status bar

Save clicks by displaying live prices, world times and email unread counts in your standard i3status bar
Ultimate guide to ranging and trending market indicators

Showing the best trending and ranging market indicators for MT4/5, TradingView, cTrader for forex, stocks or crypto
Moving stoploss to breakeven - protect capital or lose profit?

A brief analysis of the cost benefit analysis of moving stops to breakeven, and different risk management strategies
Trading currency strength divergences

When the currencies in a pair diverge you have trend conditions - can you trade these profitably?
Forex, CFD or currency trading for beginners or dummies

A few signposts for where to start in FX trading, why to do it and how to trade small or large accounts
Mythbusting: Recovering a trading account after a losing streak

Is it really many times harder to recover after a losing streak?
Build your own insulated DIY garden office - self-build

Lists of materials, tools, timber and electrical gear needed for a self-build, DIY garden office or room that's insulated, cheap and outdoor
Obligatory first post

A new site, a new post