The open curriculum

Everything here that costs nothing.

The teaching is in the open. What is finished is below and free to read, with no email needed for most of it. What is not finished says so, with no date attached, because I would rather ship it late than promise it and miss.

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Still losing money? Find out why.

The six reasons traders stay unprofitable, the symptoms of each one, what they look like in a journal, and a worksheet that tells you which one is costing you the most right now.

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Cheat sheetFree

The 9:30 Setup

One worked example of a rule-based setup on NQ futures, backtested across 16 years: the rule, the numbers behind it, and the day it fails. Evidence of the method, not the method itself.

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Sizing that survives a losing streak

How to pick one risk number and hold it, what a normal run of losers actually looks like at that size, and why the biggest positions in most journals are the worst performing ones.

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WalkthroughBeing written

Validating a setup with your own data

Counting a rule properly: what to record, how many trades before a number means anything, and how to tell a bad stretch inside a working approach from an approach that never worked.

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The weekly review, start to finish

One hour, a written record, and one behaviour to change. The loop that turns a year of trading into a year of learning instead of the same month twelve times.

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Evaluation rules, plainly

Daily loss limits, trailing drawdown, consistency rules and the rest, in plain language, with what each one means for how you are allowed to trade.

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New things land in the letter first.

One letter a week: one lesson, one thing from my own record, one link. Start with the guide and you are on it. Leave whenever you want.

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Education only. Not financial advice. Backtested figures shown in these resources are hypothetical results, not live trading, and past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Trading futures carries substantial risk of loss. Read the full risk disclaimer.