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Designing a Trading System That Survives Yourself

Designing a Trading System That Survives Yourself

Published on: 06/02/2025

Issue 23: How to build a personalised trading methodology, and why discipline is all that stands between a small error and a total collapse.

How to Optimise Your Portfolio and Your Mind

How to Optimise Your Portfolio and Your Mind

Published on: 17/10/2024

Issue 17: Position sizing like a pro with the Kelly Criterion, five essential gratitude practices, and the power of radical self-discipline.

Have You Outgrown the Person You Used to Be?

Have You Outgrown the Person You Used to Be?

Published on: 22/08/2024

Issue 13: Why your ego is the primary enemy of progress and how to audit your beliefs, plus R-multiples, the metric that matters for your trading system.