Insights

Notes on structure, sessions and risk

Written by the people who teach the methodology. No signals, no calls, no performance posts — just the reasoning behind how we read a week and manage risk inside it.

  • Weekly structure
  • Session discipline
  • Capital preservation
  • Reading behaviour
  • Automation

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Published notes

New notes are added as market conditions make them worth writing, rather than to a content calendar.

Weekly structure

Why the weekly open matters more than any indicator

The weekly open is the reference point institutional desks measure the week against. Marking it changes how you read continuation and reversal, without adding a single indicator to the chart.

7 min readArticle coming soon
Session discipline

The London window: what actually happens in the first two hours

Asia's range is liquidity waiting to be used. A breakdown of how London typically interacts with it, and why trading the same level three hours later is a different trade entirely.

9 min readArticle coming soon
Capital preservation

Position sizing from stop distance, not from lot size

Fixed lot sizing quietly makes your risk a function of volatility. Sizing from stop distance keeps the loss constant and the decision boring — which is the point.

6 min readArticle coming soon
Automation

What a webhook can and cannot do for your trading

An honest look at latency, dropped alerts, broker rejections and what supervision of an automated setup actually involves day to day.

8 min readArticle coming soon
Reading behaviour

Judging trades by process, not by profit and loss

A journal that records outcomes teaches you to chase. A journal that records whether the plan was followed teaches you to trade. How we score a week at Trade Algorithm.

5 min readArticle coming soon
Weekly structure

When the map is wrong: recognising a broken week early

Every plan has conditions that invalidate it. The skill is noticing on Wednesday rather than on Friday, and reducing exposure instead of reinterpreting the chart.

7 min readArticle coming soon

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The notes above assume the three pillars. The methodology page explains them properly, and how Elite works covers the automation layer, including what it costs and where it fails.

What you will not find here

No trade calls, no signals, no profit screenshots and no return claims. If a piece of writing cannot survive being read a year later, we do not publish it.

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