Guides

Learn the part of trading that actually blows accounts

Practical, no-hype guides for prop-firm and smart-money traders. Every one is built around the same idea Edgekeeper is: most traders don’t fail on strategy — they fail on risk, discipline and record-keeping. These are the fundamentals that fix that.

Journaling7 min read

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.

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Prop firms8 min read

Surviving 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.

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Risk6 min read

Understanding 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.

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Psychology7 min read

The 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.

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Risk7 min read

Position 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.

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Strategy6 min read

Trading 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.

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