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THE TRADE TRIBE JOURNAL
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Fun lessons, practical tools, and honest conversations about learning how to trade.
MY STYLE OF TRADING
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.
Day Trading vs Swing Trading
Neither style is better — it depends on your schedule and temperament. Here's how to actually decide between day trading and swing trading.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 203 min read
The $1 Billion Trade: What George Soros Saw That Nobody Else Did
Most traders spend their whole career chasing that one life-changing trade.
George Soros found his on September 16, 1992 — a day the world now calls Black Wednesday.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 176 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
My London Session Forex Trading Routine — Why I Only Trade 3 Hours a Night
I stopped trading all day and built a 3-hour routine around the London session. Here's exactly how I structure my nights trading EUR/USD — and why the timing changes everything.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 173 min read
How Much Money Do You Really Need to Start Trading?
Wondering How Much Money Do You Really Need to Start Trading Learn the difference between $1K vs $5K accounts, the 30-pip strategy, and how to grow your account with simple daily compounding.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 164 min read
Another Night in the Markets… 30 Pips.
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.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 132 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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