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MY STYLE OF TRADING

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Starting Over in Midlife: A Letter to the Woman Awake at 2 A.M.

It’s 2 a.m. You’re in the kitchen, slice of cheese in hand, doing the scary kind of math. This one’s for you: the fears we don’t say out loud, what we actually want, and why the best part isn’t behind us

Erica Lorrai

Oct 1610 min read

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The $1 Billion Trade: What George Soros Actually Saw on Black Wednesday

In 1992 George Soros made about $1 billion shorting the British pound on Black Wednesday. Most people take the wrong lesson from it. The trade worked because being wrong was cheap and being right paid huge.

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How We Use Previous Day High and Low (PDH/PDL) to Spot Traps and Set Targets

Yesterday's high and low are where a lot of orders gather. What PDH and PDL actually tell you, and why treating them as support and resistance gets traders caught on the wrong side.

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When Is the Best Time to Trade: Understanding Market Hours and Sessions

The forex market is open 24 hours a day, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth your attention all day. Here’s how the four sessions behave, why the London–New York overlap gets the hype, when to stay out, and why trading the same window every day changes everything.

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The Sessions Indicator: How I Use the Asian Range to Read London

See how the Sessions indicator boxes Asia, London and New York, and how to read London’s move against the Asian range: false break, real break, or none.

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Starting Over in Midlife: A Letter to the Woman Awake at 2 A.M.

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Forex Candlesticks: How to Read a Single Candle the Way a Dealer Does

A candlestick is four numbers on a little colored bar. Where price opened, where it closed, the highest it got, the lowest it got. That's it, nothing fancy. But those four numbers are the only visible record of what a dealer just did, and there's a ten minute exercise with a line chart that makes the footprints impossible to miss once you've seen them. Most candlestick lessons hand you forty patterns to memorize. You need about four.

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The 8-Box Fractal Dealer's Cycle: One Pattern, Every Scale

A walk through a piece of market structure I've spent a long time staring at. Price doesn't just trend and range randomly, it moves through a repeatable eight-part rhythm — and turned into a fractal framework I now use to read charts at every timeframe I trade.

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The $1 Billion Trade: What George Soros Actually Saw on Black Wednesday

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How We Use Previous Day High and Low (PDH/PDL) to Spot Traps and Set Targets

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When Is the Best Time to Trade: Understanding Market Hours and Sessions

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A quiet 30-pip night doesn't make for a highlight reel, but it's what sustainable trading actually looks like. Here's why boring wins.

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Starting Over in Midlife: A Letter to the Woman Awake at 2 A.M.

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The $1 Billion Trade: What George Soros Actually Saw on Black Wednesday

How We Use Previous Day High and Low (PDH/PDL) to Spot Traps and Set Targets

When Is the Best Time to Trade: Understanding Market Hours and Sessions

The Sessions Indicator: How I Use the Asian Range to Read London

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Starting Over in Midlife: A Letter to the Woman Awake at 2 A.M.

Forex Candlesticks: How to Read a Single Candle the Way a Dealer Does

The 8-Box Fractal Dealer's Cycle: One Pattern, Every Scale

This Week in the Charts

The $1 Billion Trade: What George Soros Actually Saw on Black Wednesday

How We Use Previous Day High and Low (PDH/PDL) to Spot Traps and Set Targets

When Is the Best Time to Trade: Understanding Market Hours and Sessions

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