Category: Trading Tips
Short, practical trading tips from The Two Traders on risk, leverage, stop losses and building a repeatable trading process.
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How to Spot the Start of a New Trend with Price Action
How to identify a new trend early with price action: failed lows, breaks of structure, higher lows, volume and timeframes, plus early…
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When Not to Trade: 8 Conditions to Stay Flat
When not to trade: eight conditions where price action traders stay flat, from central bank news and thin liquidity to mid-range price…
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Filters and Triggers: A Price Action Trade Entry Checklist
Filters and triggers trading explained: separate context filters (trend, location, session, volatility) from entry triggers in one price action checklist.
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Trading Risk Management: Build a Rules-Based Risk Model
Trading risk management for beginners: how a rules based risk model sets risk per trade, stops, position size, loss limits and drawdown…
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What Are Futures Contracts? Expiry and Rollover for Retail Traders
What are futures contracts, and what happens when they expire? How rollover works for UK traders, dated vs undated spread bets and…
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Trading Breakouts: How to Avoid False Breakouts
How to avoid false breakouts: check the candle close, the volume, the retest and the trend before you enter, and know what…
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How to Trade Commodities with Price Action
How to trade commodities in the UK: energy, metals and softs, what drives each, £-per-point sizing and the leverage risks beginners underestimate.
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Diversifying a Trading Portfolio with Uncorrelated Assets
Diversifying a trading portfolio means spreading risk across trades that do not move together. Learn to spot correlation, hidden USD bets and…
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Bitcoin Market Cycles Explained: Reading the Long-Term Trend
Bitcoin market cycles explained: how the halving works, how past cycles are described, why they may not repeat and how to read…
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Trading Top Tip: Cut Losses Early
Trading Top Tip: why you should cut losses early in trading, how loss aversion stops you, and the simple exit rules we…