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behaviour, and the gap between them.
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Why traders break their own rules
It's not willpower. It's structure. The version of you that writes the rules and the version that has to follow them aren't the same person — and that gap is the actual edge.
5 min · 7 May 2026
Nine cognitive distortions quietly killing your trading account
Loss aversion, revenge trading, sunk cost — the named patterns that show up in every blown account. With concrete examples of how each looks in real trades.
8 min · 6 May 2026
How to pass a prop firm evaluation without blowing it on Tuesday
FTMO, Topstep, Apex — the kill condition isn't strategy. It's the same Tuesday morning, every account, the same trader breaking the same rule. Here's what to do instead.
7 min · 5 May 2026
Your trade journal isn't fixing your trading. Here's what is.
TraderVue, Tradezella, Edgewonk — they all share the same limit. Post-hoc review can't fix a real-time problem. The behavioural layer is what your journal can't be.
6 min · 4 May 2026
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