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How I Validate a Trading Edge Before Risking a Dollar

14 Apr 2026  ·  Matthew Mickey  ·  8 min read
How I Validate a Trading Edge Before Risking a DollarIn Part 1, I showed you the six steps I run before I even consider a stop lo...
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What I Do Before I Even Consider a Stop Loss,Take Profit or Entry Risk Management

What I Do Before I Even Consider a Stop Loss,Take Profit or Entry

14 Apr 2026  ·  Matthew Mickey  ·  10 min read
Most traders pick a stop loss based on a feeling. They look at the chart, find a level that looks right, and put their stop there. Then they wonder why they keep getting stopped out. I run six mathematical steps before I think about where to put a stop. These steps tell me what kind of edge I have, how that edge behaves in different market conditions, and whether I should take the trade at all. All before a single dollar of risk is defined. This is the measurement phase of my pipeline.
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Risk Management

The Math Behind Adding to Winners

15 Jan 2026  ·  Matthew Mickey  ·  6 min read
How to Scale Into Winning Trades Without Destroying Your Edge
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Trading Psychology

Holding Through the Fear: Why Most Traders Exit Too Early—and the Exercise That Teaches Them to Stay (Exercise Two)

26 Dec 2025  ·  Matthew Mickey  ·  4 min read
If overtrading is the loudest mistake retail traders make, exiting winners too early is the quietest—and often the most expensive.After trad...
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Trading Psychology

Removing Greed and Dopamine From Trading Through Exposure Therapy (Exercise One)

26 Dec 2025  ·  Matthew Mickey  ·  4 min read
Retail trading has a reputation problem. Despite endless indicators, platforms, and “edge” promises, most individual traders lose money—not because...
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Risk Management

You Don’t Need Skill When the Math Is Doing the Heavy Lifting

24 Dec 2025  ·  Matthew Mickey  ·  9 min read
Most traders look at risk the wrong way.When we analyzed multiple strategies across the NY session, one fact became clear:<...
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Risk Management

Markets are stochastic at best , Chaotic at Worst

23 Dec 2025  ·  Matthew Mickey  ·  2 min read
Markets are stochastic at best. That means price movement is driven by randomness, but the randomness is statistically constrained...
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