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


Is Forex Rigged? The Honest Answer in 2026
Is forex rigged? Your stop gets hit and price reverses. Every time. Here's the real, documented explanation — and what's actually changed in 2026.
2 days ago7 min read
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Lessons, insights, and ideas from studying the market.


Is Forex Rigged? The Honest Answer in 2026
Is forex rigged? Your stop gets hit and price reverses. Every time. Here's the real, documented explanation — and what's actually changed in 2026.
Erica Lorrai
2 days ago7 min read


How Do I Turn Trading Profits Into Real Wealth?
Learn how to manage trading profits, take withdrawals, use prop firm payouts, store cash safely, and turn trading income into real-world wealth.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 276 min read


The IMF: The Most Powerful Player in Forex You’ve Never Really Thought About
They don’t trade currencies. But they absolutely move them. Here’s what every new trader needs to understand about the IMF — in plain English.
Erica Lorrai
Apr 204 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. He didn't scalp a few pips. He didn't grind it out over months. He made $1 billion in a single day, and another billion in the weeks that followed — by doing something most traders never have the patience or the clarity, or the stones to do. He waited. He read the story. And when the ending became obvious, he wen
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
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


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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