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reference · Order execution
Validate prices against a tick increment, compare rounding directions for a limit order, and separate price formatting from stop-distance and execution rules.
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tool · Performance & testing
Calculate profit factor from realized winning and losing amounts, with transparent cost conventions, original ledger examples and zero-loss handling.
Open calculatorreference · Performance & testing
Calculate realized R-multiples using a documented initial risk denominator, including costs, partial exits and examples where money and R averages differ.
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reference · Technical analysis
Construct a simple Renko brick sequence, distinguish fixed and ATR sizing, and understand why synthetic chart prices can distort execution tests.
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tool · Risk & sizing
Compare modeled target profit with stop loss for long or short linear-price scenarios, including quantity and total costs. Check price ordering and limits.
Open calculatorguide · Risk & sizing
Understand trading risk of ruin with fixed-stake and fractional-risk examples. Define the loss barrier, time horizon and model assumptions before calculating.
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Learn how RSI transforms gains and losses into a bounded oscillator, work through a calculation, and understand why high readings need not reverse.
Read resourcereference · Performance & testing
Understand lagged return correlation with worked lag-one examples, consistent sampling and limitations for confidence intervals and annualized risk.
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reference · Forex & currencies
Trace profit and loss from an instrument’s settlement currency into account currency with explicit rate direction, timestamps, fees and original examples.
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Compare Sharpe and Sortino ratios with a worked return series. Check benchmarks, downside targets, annualization and what each statistic leaves out.
Read resourcetool · Risk & sizing
Estimate single-rate margin from base units, price, currency conversion and leverage. Understand why broker tiers, offsets and futures margin differ.
Open calculatorreference · Performance & testing
Understand return asymmetry and fourth-moment tail sensitivity, with an explicit population-moment example and ordinary-versus-excess kurtosis conventions.
Read resourcetool · Order execution
Convert the signed difference between planned and actual fill prices into increments and account-currency cost for a linear quantity model.
Open calculatorreference · Forex & currencies
Understand why spot and forward currency prices differ, with a simplified interest-parity example and clear limits for futures and broker rolling products.
Read resourcereference · Performance & testing
Work through sample standard deviation of returns, distinguish percent units from decimal units, and understand annualization and tail-risk limitations.
Read resourcereference · Technical analysis
Calculate raw stochastic %K and a smoothed %D example, distinguish fast and slow variants, and understand why range changes affect the reading.
Read resourcereference · Order execution
Understand a stop-limit trigger and limit price with a gap example, and learn why controlling price can leave a position open.
Read resourcereference · Technical analysis
Understand Supertrend’s carried bands and direction state through a worked example, including why unfinished bars and variant rules change signals.
Read resourcereference · Technical analysis
Draw a supply or demand zone using a declared base-and-departure rule, track later visits and failures, and distinguish chart regions from live liquidity.
Read resourcereference · Performance & testing
Understand survivorship bias through an original account-cohort example and an auditable inclusion ledger, with limits on missing-history conclusions.
Read resourcereference · Technical analysis
Distinguish quote activity from executed volume, compare two sample feeds correctly, and check data fields before building a volume indicator or backtest.
Read resourcereference · Order execution
Distinguish order lifetime from filling policy, compare a partial-quantity example, and verify expiration, cancellation and actual fills.
Read resourcetool · Performance & testing
Calculate arithmetic expectancy from assumed win rate, average gross win, average gross loss and cost. Understand sample definitions and model limitations.
Open calculatorguide · Performance & testing
Calculate trading expectancy from average wins, losses and costs. See why a high win rate can lose money and how to review a sample without overclaiming.
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