reference · Technical analysis
ADX: Trend Strength and Directional Movement
Separate ADX from +DI and −DI, calculate a directional-movement example, and understand smoothing delays and zero-denominator cases.
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reference · Technical analysis
Anchored VWAP: Start Points and Hindsight
Understand anchored VWAP with an original calculation, compare event anchors, and document start-point choices without introducing hindsight bias.
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reference · Performance & testing
Arithmetic and Geometric Returns: Two Different Averages
Compare arithmetic mean returns with compounded geometric returns using transparent examples, consistent periods and cash-flow limitations.
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reference · Technical analysis
Average True Range: Gaps, Smoothing and Units
Calculate true range and ATR with a gap example, convert the result into price units correctly, and separate historical volatility from stop-loss risk.
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reference · Performance & testing
Backtest Overfitting: Track the Search behind the Winning Result
Understand how repeated strategy searches select noise, with a transparent multiple-testing example and a practical experiment ledger for honest evaluation.
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guide · Performance & testing
Backtesting Trading Strategies: A Reproducible Test Plan
Build a reproducible trading backtest with explicit data, timing, fills and costs. Use a worked example to spot look-ahead bias and unrealistic order assumptions.
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reference · Risk & sizing
Balance, Equity and Unrealized P&L: Reconcile an Account Ledger
Follow a loss from an open position into balance, distinguish deposits from profit, and compare account snapshots without double-counting P&L.
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reference · Forex & currencies
Base and Quote Currency: Read an FX Price with Units
Read FX pairs as quote units per base unit, calculate notional and pip changes, and distinguish pair direction from account and settlement currencies.
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reference · Order execution
Bid–Ask Spread and All-In Trading Cost Calculator
Calculate spread, round-trip commission, signed slippage and financing in one account-currency model without double-counting costs already in actual fills.
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reference · Technical analysis
Bollinger Bands: Mean, Deviation and Width
Calculate Bollinger Bands from a small price sample, distinguish population and sample deviation, and understand the limits of band-based probabilities.
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tool · Performance & testing
Breakeven Win Rate Calculator with Trading Costs
Find the two-outcome win rate needed for zero modeled expectancy using average gross win, average gross loss and per-trade cost, including impossible cases.
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reference · Performance & testing
CAGR: Calculate Annualized Growth without Hiding the Path
Calculate compound annual growth from beginning value, ending value and elapsed years. Check cash flows, short samples and path information CAGR omits.
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reference · Technical analysis
CCI: Typical Price and Mean Deviation
Calculate CCI with an original example, distinguish mean absolute deviation from standard deviation, and understand its unbounded scale.
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guide · Futures & contracts
Contango vs Backwardation: Read a Futures Curve and a Roll
Learn to distinguish a futures curve from a price forecast, calculate a calendar spread and trace an original roll example without inventing a guaranteed return.
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guide · Futures & contracts
Continuous Futures Contracts: Charts, Roll Gaps and Real Orders
Understand continuous futures charts, contract switching and back-adjustment. Use a worked roll-gap example and verify the actual expiry behind every order.
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reference · Risk & sizing
Contract Notional Value: Measure Exposure Separately From Margin
Calculate futures and FX notional exposure, compare gross and signed totals, and understand where price-times-multiplier formulas stop being appropriate.
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tool · Platforms & automation
Copy Lot Ratio Calculator for Matching Contracts
Model follower lots from source size, an equity ratio, a chosen multiplier and volume step. Includes contract-matching and currency assumptions.
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reference · Performance & testing
Correlation and Covariance: Compare Aligned Return Series
Calculate covariance and Pearson correlation from paired returns; compare rolling windows, missing-data rules, nonlinear dependence and false hedge conclusions.
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reference · Forex & currencies
Cross-Currency Rates: Calculate with Units and Quote Sides
Derive cross rates through a common currency using original examples, including bid-ask treatment, synchronized quotes and account-currency applications.
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reference · Technical analysis
Cup and Handle: Convention and Failure Cases
Compare cup and handle with rounding bottom and top patterns using fixed windows, explicit shape rules, breakout timing and failed examples.
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reference · Futures & contracts
Daily Futures Settlement and Mark-to-Market: Reconcile the Cash Flow
Work through daily futures P&L, reconcile it to the full trade result, and distinguish daily settlement from closing a position or final contract settlement.
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reference · Forex & currencies
Direct and Indirect FX Quotes: Perspective and Reciprocals
Understand domestic-currency quote perspective, invert two-sided FX prices correctly and avoid equal-percentage assumptions when reversing a pair.
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reference · Technical analysis
Double Tops and Bottoms: Tolerance and Failure
Define double top pattern pivots, neckline and tolerance; compare a third test, close confirmation and failed breaks with worked examples.
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reference · Performance & testing
Downside Deviation: Measure Returns Below a Stated Target
Calculate downside deviation with a transparent target and full-series denominator. Compare subset conventions, annualization and zero-result limitations.
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