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THE TRADE TRIBE JOURNAL
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Fun lessons, practical tools, and honest conversations about learning how to trade.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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This Week in the Charts
Real charts, trade decisions and lessons to carry into your trades.
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More From the Blog
Things I’ve learned, things I’ve questioned, and things worth passing along.
Go beyond individual candlesticks and learn to recognize the bigger picture. Explore the Dealer Cycle Method, market maker behavior, price patterns, liquidity traps, and market timing. Discover how market structure and repeating cycles can help you make more informed trading decisions.
Trade #1: EUR/USD Trade Breakdown, Wrong Way First, Then +54 Pips
Trade #1 on my new $10K prop account did not start perfectly. I took the wrong direction first, had a one-cent misclick in the middle, then caught the real move at London open for +54.4 pips and $533.60. Here’s what I saw, what I got wrong, and why the trade worked.
Erica Lorrai
Oct 64 min read
We Teach What the Market Actually Does
If you’ve landed here because you want to learn how to trade forex, there’s something you should probably know before you start clicking around this blog:
We do things a little differently around here.
We don't try to predict every candle, eliminate losing trades, or turn $47 into a Lamborghini by Thursday.
We teach you how to read the behavior of the market so you can make better trading decisions inside of it.
And if that sounds like the kind of trader you want to become,
Erica Lorrai
Aug 319 min read
Trap, Move, Anchor: The EMA Trading Strategy That Made Me Stop Guessing
I used to watch price cross an EMA and just... take it. Cross the 50, go short. Feels obvious in hindsight, right?
It's not the trade. Not even close. And learning why it's not the trade is what turned this from a hunch into something I can actually execute — over and over, with rules I don't have to second-guess in real time.
This is the trap, move, anchor trading strategy framework: how I actually trade the fractal EMA cycles I've been mapping out. No more "it crossed,
Erica Lorrai
Aug 254 min read
The Fractal Price Cycle Pattern I Can't Stop Seeing (And Can't Quite Name Yet)
Where do Dealer Cycle Patterns Start and Stop?
Erica Lorrai
Aug 254 min read
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.
Erica Lorrai
Aug 196 min read
BTMM in Plain English: What Beat the Market Makers Actually Means
What does BTMM actually mean? A plain-English breakdown of the Beat the Market Makers cycle — accumulation, manipulation, and distribution.
Erica Lorrai
Jun 294 min read
How the CA Coastline Maps the Dealer Cycle
You know those moments where your brain refuses to see things the “normal” way? That’s me with trading. For whatever reason, the dealer cycle EMA slope has always looked like the California coastline to me. The curves, the drops, the way it hugs and releases — it just felt like Highway 1 cutting down the edge of the state. So one day, I thought: why not actually overlay California onto the chart? And when I did… I see the same behaviors the dealers run showed up right where t
Erica Lorrai
Apr 172 min read
The Market Isn’t Random — How the Forex Market Moves
Most traders sit down at a chart and immediately think: “What is price about to do next?” I used to do the same thing. And honestly… that question is what keeps people stuck. Because How the Forex Market Moves isn’t something you predict. It’s something you read. How the Forex Market Moves What’s Actually Happening on This Chart If you just walk this chart from left to right, the entire story is right in front of you: They built short positions They ran price down They close
Erica Lorrai
Mar 312 min read
The Market Isn't Random. It's Just Rude.
Stop runs, fakeout breakouts, sudden moves — none of it is random. Here's why the market feels chaotic until you learn to read the structure.
Erica Lorrai
Mar 232 min read
The Dealer Cycle: How Institutional Levels and Traps Actually Work
Accumulation, manipulation, distribution — here's how institutional levels and trap breakouts fit into one repeatable market cycle.
Erica Lorrai
Feb 24 min read
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