Trading guides

Practical, plain-English guides to journaling, paper trading, liquidation price, trade exit review, importing exchange CSVs, an editorial journal-app comparison, backtesting checks, discipline and portfolio tracking.

• How to keep a crypto trading journal (with a template)
  A practical way to journal crypto trades in a few minutes a day: what to record before, during and after a trade, a copy-paste template, and how to review it.
• How to review a crypto trading journal each week
  A simple weekly checklist for reviewing a crypto trading journal: P&L, expectancy, setups, rules kept vs broken, and what to change next week — without over-fitting to a tiny sample.
• How to paper trade crypto: a practical beginner checklist
  How to paper trade crypto without risking money: set a realistic virtual balance, pick markets and risk per trade, practise order types, journal every sim trade, and know when a simulator differs from a real exchange.
• Paper trading crypto with leverage: how to practise safely
  How leverage, margin and liquidation work, how to use a crypto paper trading account to learn them without risking money, and where simulators differ from real exchanges.
• Crypto liquidation price: how it works and how to calculate it
  How the liquidation price of a leveraged crypto position is worked out on isolated margin, with the formula, worked long and short examples, a leverage-to-cushion table and how to keep a stop inside it.
• MFE and MAE: how to review your trade exits and stop placement
  What maximum favourable excursion (MFE) and maximum adverse excursion (MAE) measure, how to calculate them in % and R, and how to use them to review exits and stops in your crypto trading journal.
• How to import Coinbase, Kraken and Binance trades into a trading journal (CSV)
  Step by step: export your trade history as CSV from Coinbase, Kraken or Binance, what the columns mean, how buys and sells become closed trades (FIFO), fees, partial fills and the usual import problems, without API keys.
• Crypto trading journals compared (October 2026): TraderSync, Tradervue, Edgewonk, TradesViz and Daily Edge
  Editorial comparison of trading journal apps for crypto traders: list prices, free plans, crypto support, MFE/MAE and where your data lives, checked on each vendor's public pricing page on 26 October 2026.
• Backtest checklist: what to verify before you trust the results
  A practical backtest checklist for crypto and other markets: out-of-sample testing, fees and funding, look-ahead bias, overfitting, walk-forward, and what a pretty equity curve still doesn’t prove.
• Trading discipline: measuring what rule-breaking days cost you
  Turn 'be more disciplined' into something you can measure: write rules you can check, tag every day as kept or broken, and compare the results with honest statistics.
• How to track a crypto portfolio without connecting a wallet
  Track crypto holdings using only public addresses or manual entries: what a public address reveals, what you should never enter anywhere, and the trade-offs of each approach.
• Trading glossary: R-multiple, expectancy, drawdown, leverage and more
  Plain-English definitions of trading terms used in journals and paper trading: R-multiple, expectancy, win rate, drawdown, leverage, liquidation, funding, SMA/EMA, VWAP and Bollinger Bands.