The BullTraders Blog
Articles on trading strategy, risk management and psychology.
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Trading Education
What Is Profit Factor and Why Does It Matter?
Calculate profit factor correctly, distinguish gross and net results, and understand why a high ratio alone does not prove a trading edge.
Challenge Strategy
Biggest Mistakes in Prop Firm Evaluations (and Fixes)
The most common evaluation-killing mistakes (overtrading, chasing losses, ignoring daily limits, trading news events) and concrete ways to avoid each one.
Trading Education
Understanding the Sharpe Ratio: Is Your Strategy Any Good?
Understand the Sharpe ratio calculation, consistent return periods and annualisation assumptions, plus the risks the ratio does not capture.
Challenge Strategy
How to Prepare for a Prop Firm Challenge
A practical preparation sequence for prop firm evaluations: programme rules, drawdown room, realistic simulation, execution checks and stopping criteria.
Trading Education
What Is Curve Fitting and Why Is It Dangerous for Traders?
Learn what curve fitting means in trading, why it makes backtests look incredible but live trading fail, and how to avoid overfitting your strategy.
Trading Education
How to Track and Measure Your Trading Performance
Learn how to track and measure your trading performance. Essential metrics, journaling methods, and tools to improve your trading results over time.
Psychology & Risk
How to Stop Overtrading: Signs, Causes & Practical Fixes
Identifying overtrading patterns, too many setups, averaging down, trading out of boredom, and practical systems to limit trades and stick to your plan.
Psychology & Risk
What Is Revenge Trading, and How Do You Stop It?
What triggers revenge trading, why traders do it, the psychological loop behind it, and practical steps to break the cycle before it wrecks your account.
Trading Education
What Is Expectancy in Trading? How to Calculate Your Edge
Calculate trading expectancy from net results, understand breakeven trades and R-multiples, and distinguish a historical estimate from a future edge.
Psychology & Risk
Why Traders Lose Money: Strategy, Risk and Decision-Making
Examine trading losses through strategy evidence, costs, exposure and decisions, without assuming every loss comes from psychology.
Trading Education
What Is a Trading System and How Do You Build One?
Learn what a trading system is and how to build one step by step. Covers rules, components, backtesting, and systematic trading basics for beginners.
Psychology & Risk
Position Sizing: How to Calculate Risk Per Trade
Step-by-step guide to position sizing: the formula, worked examples in futures and forex, adapting for prop firm rules, and common beginner mistakes.