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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.
Where Can Beginners Practice Forex Trading for Free?
Discover the best free forex practice accounts for beginners, including OANDA, Forex.com, and TradingView paper trading. Learn before risking real money.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 133 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
How To Stop Overthinking Trades
Overanalyzing costs just as much as impulsive trading. Here's why smart traders overthink the most — and how to simplify until there's nothing left to doubt.
Erica Lorrai
Mar 162 min read
30-Pip Win Psychology - Why you shouldn't hold trades past target
Watching price keep running after you close a winning trade is dangerous. Here's why your target is the win — and moving it isn't flexibility.
Erica Lorrai
Mar 92 min read
Why You Stop After Winning Trading
A good day can undo itself fast. Here's why overconfidence after a win is as dangerous as panic after a loss — and how to protect your gains.
Erica Lorrai
Mar 22 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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