Trading guides
Practical, plain-English guides to journaling (including what our free, in-browser journal covers), paper trading, liquidation price, position size, trade exit review, trading fees, proof of reserves, spotting trading scams, importing exchange CSVs, an editorial journal-app comparison, backtesting checks, whether AI can predict crypto prices, discipline and portfolio tracking.
- How to keep a crypto trading journal (with a template)
A practical way to journal crypto trades in a few minutes a day: what to record before, during and after a trade, a copy-paste template, and how to review it. - Free crypto trading journal: private, in your browser
Daily Edge is a free crypto trading journal in your browser: no account, trades stay on your device. What is free, what Pro adds, and the trade-offs. - How to review a crypto trading journal each week
A weekly checklist for reviewing a crypto trading journal: P&L, expectancy, setups, rules kept vs broken, and what to change, without over-fitting. - How to paper trade crypto: a practical beginner checklist
How to paper trade crypto: a realistic virtual balance, risk per trade, order types, journaling every sim trade, and where simulators differ from exchanges. - Paper trading crypto with leverage: how to practise safely
How leverage, margin and liquidation work, how to learn them on a crypto paper trading account, and where simulators differ from real exchanges. - Crypto liquidation price: how it works and how to calculate it
How the liquidation price of a leveraged crypto position works on isolated margin: the formula, long and short examples and a leverage-to-cushion table. - How to calculate crypto position size from your risk
The crypto position size formula for spot and futures: account risk, stop distance, leverage and fees, with worked examples and a free calculator. - MFE and MAE: how to review your trade exits and stop placement
What maximum favourable and adverse excursion (MFE/MAE) measure, how to calculate them in % and R, and how to use them to review exits and stops. - Crypto trading fees explained: maker vs taker, spread, yearly cost
How crypto trading fees work: maker vs taker, spread, funding and network fees, with worked examples of the cost per trade and per year, and free tools. - Crypto exchange fees compared: Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Binance.US
Maker and taker fees for Coinbase, Kraken Pro, Gemini ActiveTrader and Binance.US from each exchange's own fee page, checked 2026-10-30, with worked examples. - Proof of reserves: what it means for exchange users
How crypto exchange proof of reserves works (Merkle trees, signed wallets, accountant checks), what it can't show, and how to verify your own balance. - Crypto trading scams: how to spot them before you send money
Fake exchanges, signal groups, pump-and-dumps, trading bots, fake profit screenshots and recovery scams: how each one works, the red flags and what to do. - How to import Coinbase, Kraken and Binance trades into a trading journal (CSV)
Export a Coinbase, Kraken or Binance trade-history CSV, see how buys and sells become closed trades (FIFO) with fees and partial fills. No API keys. - Crypto trading journals compared (October 2026): TraderSync, Tradervue, Edgewonk, TradesViz and Daily Edge
Trading journal apps compared for crypto: list prices, free plans, crypto support, MFE/MAE and where your data lives, from public pricing pages, Oct 2026. - Backtest checklist: what to verify before you trust the results
A practical backtest checklist: out-of-sample tests, fees and funding, look-ahead bias, overfitting, walk-forward, and what an equity curve doesn’t prove. - Can AI predict crypto prices? An honest look at the research
What can AI really forecast about crypto prices? Kronos, the research, and why a backtest isn't an edge. Learn how to test a model's signal safely. - Trading discipline: measuring what rule-breaking days cost you
Turn 'be more disciplined' into something you can measure: rules you can check, each day tagged kept or broken, and an honest comparison of results. - How to track a crypto portfolio without connecting a wallet
Track crypto holdings with only public addresses or manual entries: what an address reveals, what never to enter anywhere, and each approach's trade-offs. - Trading glossary: R-multiple, expectancy, drawdown, leverage and more
Plain-English definitions of trading terms: R-multiple, expectancy, win rate, drawdown, leverage, liquidation, funding, SMA/EMA, VWAP and Bollinger Bands.
Free calculators
- Trading fee calculator
maker vs taker, spread, cost per trade and per year - Break-even price calculator
average entry and the exit price that covers fees, long or short - Crypto profit calculator
profit, ROI and break-even after fees, with a what-if date lookup - Position size calculator
risk per trade, R:R and liquidation - Risk of ruin / expectancy calculator
your edge per trade, losing streaks and drawdown odds - Liquidation price calculator
isolated margin, long or short - Take-profit / exit planner
scaled targets and a breakeven stop - MFE / MAE review
how much of the best move you kept - DCA simulator
dollar-cost averaging vs lump sum on real prices - Bitcoin fee planner
network fees in sat/vB and dollars
For bitcoin holders, our sister site Hold My Bitcoin has free calculators for what your bitcoin would be worth if you'd held, the bitcoin price on any date and a halving countdown.