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THE TRADE TRIBE JOURNAL
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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 chees 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
6 days ago10 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 chees 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.
FTMO 1-Step vs 2-Step? What I Wish I'd Known Before My First Challenge
The FTMO 1-Step and 2-Step look the same. They're not. I blew my first 1-Step in 3 trades. Here's what I missed and how to choose.
Erica Lorrai
Oct 715 min read
I Failed My Prop Firm Challenge by $6.34 (And It Wasn't the $6 That Hurt)
I had the levels marked. Price walked right to them. And I still bought against it, twice, and failed my prop firm challenge by six dollars. This one stings.
Erica Lorrai
Oct 74 min read
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
The $10K Prop Firm Account Experiment
I paid $99 for a $10K prop firm account and I'm documenting every trade, win or lose. Here's why prop firms make sense for home and beginner traders.
Erica Lorrai
Oct 63 min read
Trade Journal Stats Calculator: What Your Trading Data Is Actually Telling You
You can have a hundred trades logged and still have no idea whether you're any good at this. One trade tells you nothing, because the market will happily reward you for breaking every rule you have. So we stop asking "did that trade work" and start asking "what happens when I do this over and over." That takes a pile of trades and some arithmetic. Here's what win rate, expectancy, profit factor and your longest losing streak actually mean, and which two numbers will find your
Erica Lorrai
Jul 1610 min read
CURIOUS ABOUT TRADING?
Start With the Basics
If the blog has you curious but you’re still wondering where to begin, Forex Fast Start walks you through it. Seven free lessons. About an hour. Zero expectation that you already speak fluent chart.
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