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Notes on trading discipline.
The enemy isn’t the market — it’s the four minutes after a loss. Writing on journaling, risk and the habits that quietly drain futures accounts.
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Read →Weighted Average Cost Basis for Crypto, Explained
Buy at $30k, buy again at $70k, sell a third. What did the coins you still hold cost you? The arithmetic is easy; the edge cases are where trackers lie.
Read →Why Your Portfolio Tracker Shows the Wrong Price
You open your tracker and a wallet you barely use is worth $40,000. It isn’t. Here’s the mechanism, and what a tracker should do instead.
Read →Crypto Futures Trading Journal: What to Track and Why It Matters
A journal full of the wrong fields is just data entry. These are the columns that actually change how you trade.
Read →How to Auto-Sync Your Futures Trades to a Trading Journal
The trades you “forget” to log are the losses — the ones you most need to see. Automate capture and the problem disappears.
Read →How to Size a Futures Position by Risk (Not by Gut)
Leverage doesn’t set your risk — position size does. Here’s the formula, with a worked BTC example.
Read →How to Journal Crypto Futures Trades (Without Quitting in a Week)
Most trading journals die by Friday because they rely on willpower. Here’s a system that survives a losing streak.
Read →How to Stop Revenge Trading (It’s the Four Minutes After a Loss)
You don’t blow accounts because your strategy is bad. You blow them in the four minutes after a loss.
Read →Start here
The posts fall into three groups. If you’re early, read them in this order — each one assumes the habit from the group before it.
Build the habit
Start here if you don’t keep a journal, or you’ve started one three times and abandoned it. The first post is the how; the second is the case for why a futures journal is a different object from a spot one.
Stop the bleeding
The two habits that empty accounts fastest: sizing by gut feel, and trading angry. Both are mechanical problems with mechanical fixes, which is the good news.
Make it automatic
Once the habit holds, take yourself out of the data-entry loop — a journal you maintain by hand is a journal of the trades you felt like recording.
Why we write about this
Almost nothing here is about picking entries. That’s deliberate. Traders who blow futures accounts usually aren’t wrong about direction more often than anyone else — they’re wrong-sized, they add to losers, and they take the revenge trade in the four minutes after a stop-out. Those are behavioural failures with a paper trail, which means they can be measured and they can be fixed. Entry timing mostly can’t.
So the writing sticks to the part of trading that leaves evidence: what you did, how big, how soon after the last loss, and what it cost you. That’s also what Postmortem is built to surface — but the ideas work in a spreadsheet too, and every post is written so you can act on it without buying anything.