How to keep a trading journal that actually improves your results
A practical framework for journaling every trade — what to record, how to review it, and the mistakes that turn a journal into a diary nobody reads.
Read guideSurviving prop-firm drawdown: daily loss vs. trailing max drawdown
The two limits that end most funded accounts, how trailing, static and end-of-day drawdown actually work, and how to trade so you never breach them.
Read guideUnderstanding R-multiples: the only fair way to compare your trades
Why dollars lie, how to express every trade as a multiple of the risk you took, and how R-multiples reveal your real expectancy.
Read guideThe three discipline mistakes that blow prop accounts
Revenge trading, trading the wrong session, and moving your stop — the three behaviours behind most failed accounts, and how to catch each one in your own data.
Read guidePosition sizing for funded accounts, done right
How to turn a fixed risk-per-trade into the correct position size for futures and forex, with worked examples in contracts, ticks and pips.
Read guideTrading sessions explained: when your edge actually shows up
Asia, London and New York — how the trading day is structured, why smart-money setups cluster in specific windows, and how to find your own best hours.
Read guideTurn the theory into a habit
Edgekeeper is the journal these guides describe — setups, prop rules, R-multiples and session stats, tracked automatically. Free to start, no card.