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The Trading Journal
Lessons, insights, and ideas from studying the market.


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.
2 days ago4 min read
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Lessons, insights, and ideas from studying the market.


The $1 Billion Trade That Broke the Bank of England
Most traders dream about that one big trade—the setup that pays for the house, the car, maybe even early retirement. For George Soros, that moment came on September 16, 1992—a day history now calls Black Wednesday. He didn’t just snag a few pips. He made $1 billion in a single day—and another billion in the weeks that followed. How? He did it by betting against the British government itself. Why This Still Matters Why bring up a trade from 1992 in 2025? Because dealer behavio
Erica Lorrai
1 day ago3 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
Erica Lorrai
1 day ago2 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
2 days ago4 min read


The Market Isn’t Random — How the Forex Market Moves
— You’re Just Looking at It Wrong 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 positi
Erica Lorrai
Mar 312 min read


What Lot Size Should I Choose? How to Calculate Lot Size in Forex
Before you worry about strategy, indicators, or finding the “perfect setup,” you need to get one thing right: your lot size. This is what controls your risk, your consistency, and whether your account survives long enough to grow.
Erica Lorrai
Mar 233 min read


Using the Currency Strength Meter in your trading.
Here’s how to avoid bad trades and choose better ones Using the Currency Strength Meter in your trading.
This indicator is ranking relative currency strength over a recent window - usually short-term, intraday. What it means for your trading.
Erica Lorrai
Nov 1, 20253 min read
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