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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.
What Does 6EZ6 Mean? Futures Symbols, Made Simple
Opened Bookmap expecting EURUSD and got 6EZ6 instead? You’re in the right place. Here’s what the symbol means, why the futures version shows you real volume and a real order book, and how to make sure you’re watching the contract everyone’s actually trading.
Erica Lorrai
Oct 84 min read
Bookmap EURUSD: How I see Where the Big Orders Are Waiting
Spot EURUSD only shows you one broker’s slice of the market. Here’s how I use Bookmap and 6E futures to see where the big orders are actually sitting, in plain English with a real chart.
Erica Lorrai
Oct 811 min read
Part 2: My Exact Plan for a $10K FTMO Prop Trading Account
Picked your FTMO challenge? Here's my exact plan for a $10K account: lot sizes, step-downs, and when to take profits.
Erica Lorrai
Oct 711 min read
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
Topstep vs Apex for Trading S&P Futures (ES & MES)
Topstep or Apex for trading the S&P 500? I compared the $50K accounts, ES and MES position sizing, fees, payout rules, and the one drawdown rule that can make or break your account. Here's what I found, which firm I chose, and why.
Erica Lorrai
Oct 77 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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