Short explainers
Each one explains a single thing, with the working shown. Nothing here is a view on any share or index, and nothing changes because of what the market did today.
The ten things, one page each
- 1You are already in before you decide where to get out
- 2You get in after the move has already happened
- 3The market turns right after your stop loss is hit
- 4Nothing was setting up, but you traded anyway
- 5You take the next trade to win back the last one
- 6You add more to a trade that is already losing
- 7You took far more trades than you planned to
- 8Small profits booked fast, losses left to run
- 9Weeks of profit, then one day takes the month away
- 10Cheap options that end up worth nothing
Longer reads
- When size stops being a decisionMost traders can tell you their maximum position size from memory. Far fewer can say what they actually took last Tuesday.8 min read
- The trade you take after a lossThe order placed in the twenty minutes after a losing session is a different kind of order — and you can count it.11 min read
Still being written
Pages on how contracts actually work, the arithmetic behind each of the ten, and research from SEBI and the exchanges are being added one at a time. A page appears here when it is finished and its sources check out, not before.