Short guides on the mechanics that actually decide whether a trader survives: measuring in R, payout structure, position sizing, correlation, and how to audit anyone's track record — including ours, which every guide cites as its worked example.
R measures every trade against what you risked. It is the only unit that makes results comparable across instruments, position sizes and accounts.
Win rate without payout structure is marketing, not mathematics. The relationship between average winner and average loser decides everything.
A complete signal is four prices and a reason. Anything less is a tip, and tips are how accounts die.
Any strategy can look brilliant on the data it was built on. Walk-forward testing asks the only question that matters: did it work on data it had never seen?
Long the S&P and long the Nasdaq is not diversification — it's the same bet, twice the size.
The engine analyses everything. It risks money only where measured, cost-adjusted expectancy said yes — a short list, re-measured quarterly.
Six tells that a published record is manufactured — and an invitation to hold ours to every one of them.
No lifestyle screenshots, no shortcuts: what trading forex actually is, why most beginners lose money, and how to start without burning your account.
The size of your position is the only variable fully under your control. Here is the arithmetic that keeps accounts alive.
Sigmo publishes LONG/SHORT signals with exact entry, stop and targets on the 7 instruments that survived a cost-adjusted multi-year test — every outcome recorded on the public track record, losses included. Free tier: 2 signals a day, forever. No card required.
Educational analysis, not financial advice. Trading involves substantial risk of loss.