Guides
Trade better. Write it down.
Plain-English guides to journaling your trades, passing prop firm evaluations and finding the edge in your own numbers.
- Futures Market Hours in UK Time (CME Globex)CME Globex futures hours in UK time: the Sunday open, the daily break, the New York open, and the weeks when US and UK clock changes shift everything.
- How to Calculate R Multiple (With Futures Examples)R multiple is your result divided by your planned risk. The formula, worked NQ and MNQ examples, expectancy, and why R beats P&L for reviewing trades.
- How to Export Trade History from cTrader (Statement)Export your cTrader trade history as an XLSX or HTML statement, choose the right columns, keep it in English, and read net vs gross P&L correctly.
- How to Export Trade History from MT5 and MT4Export your MetaTrader 5 History report or MT4 Detailed Statement step by step, choose HTML or Excel, and fix times shown in broker server time.
- How to Export Trades from NinjaTrader 8 (Executions CSV)Export your NinjaTrader 8 executions or trades to CSV from Trade Performance, choose the right grid, and avoid semicolon and date-format problems.
- How to Export Trades from Rithmic R | Trader ProExport your Order History from Rithmic R | Trader Pro to CSV: the hidden columns to show first, the limited date window, time zones and fills to trades.
- How to Export Trades from TopstepX (CSV or API Sync)Export your TopstepX trades to CSV in five steps, read the UTC times correctly, or sync trades automatically with a TopstepX API key.
- How to Export Trades from Tradovate (Performance & Orders)Step-by-step: export your Tradovate Performance or Orders report as CSV, what each file contains, why commissions are missing, and how to import it.
- How to Journal a Prop Firm Evaluation (Rules Checklist)Journal a prop firm evaluation: track the daily loss limit, trailing drawdown and consistency rule each day, use a pre-session checklist, review breaches.
- How to Review Your Trades Weekly: A 45-Minute RoutineA weekly trade review routine: complete the data, read the week in R, find the setups that pay, rank mistakes by cost, and choose one rule to fix.
- How to Set Up an IBKR Flex Query for a Trading JournalCreate an Interactive Brokers Activity Flex Query with the right trade fields, set CSV delivery, and generate a read-only Flex Web Service token.
- How to Stop Revenge Trading: Spot It, Measure It, Fix ItRevenge trading is trading to win back a loss. How to recognise it, measure what it costs in your journal, and set rules in advance that interrupt it.
- How to Track Multiple Prop Firm Accounts in One JournalTrack several prop firm accounts: name and import each one separately, log every account's limits daily, handle copied trades, and keep a ledger of fees.
- How to Write a Trading Setup Playbook (With Template)A trading playbook defines each setup you trade in checkable rules. What to include, how to write yes-or-no rules, a fill-in template and how to review it.
- Trading Journal for UK Futures Traders: What You NeedWhat UK futures and prop traders need from a trading journal: New York hours on UK time, dollars vs pounds, UK GDPR, platform imports and how to choose.
- Trading Journal Spreadsheet Template: Columns & FormulasBuild a trading journal in Excel or Google Sheets: the 22 columns to include, formulas for R, P&L, expectancy and profit factor, and a summary tab.
- Trailing Drawdown Explained: Intraday vs End-of-DayHow prop firm trailing drawdown works: static, end-of-day and intraday trailing, when the floor locks, worked examples, and how to track it in a journal.
- What Is a Trading Journal? What to Record and WhyA trading journal records every trade and the reasons behind it. What to log, why R multiples and rule tracking help, and paper vs spreadsheet vs app.
- What Is Expectancy in Trading? Formula and ExamplesExpectancy is your average result per trade. The formula in R and in money, worked examples, breakeven win rate, and why small samples mislead.
- What Is Profit Factor in Trading? Formula and ExamplesProfit factor is gross profit divided by gross loss. How to calculate it, what it tells you, how it links to win rate and expectancy, and its limits.