The Exhibit A Blog

Writing on trading process.
The parts that decide outcomes.

Risk rules, review habits and prop firm mechanics β€” for traders who want the actual numbers, not motivation. No fluff, no signals, no course.

The Trades taken sheet of the free template, filled in Templates A free trading journal template Logs your trades and the setups you missed, then works out the monthly review by itself. MCMartin Cargeeg·3 Sep 2026·4 min read A candlestick chart on a dark screen, falling sharply in a run of red candles Risk How to stop revenge trading It isn’t a discipline problem, it’s a timing problem. The three shapes it takes, and the one habit that reliably breaks the loop. MCMartin Cargeeg·28 Sep 2026·6 min read A tablet showing a candlestick chart held in front of a trading monitor and laptop Tools Forex Factory alternatives It does four jobs — calendar, forum, news, data. No single tool replaces all four, and one part has no replacement at all. MCMartin Cargeeg·23 Sep 2026·7 min read An equity curve dipping close to a red loss limit before climbing to a gold profit target Prop firms How to pass a prop firm challenge The profit target is rarely what fails people. The daily limit, the drawdown type and the consistency rule are. MCMartin Cargeeg·16 Sep 2026·8 min read A speaker addressing a room of people taking notes at a trading seminar Coaching What does a trading coach actually do? Coach, mentor and signal seller are three different jobs. What the good ones do, and what to ask before you pay. MCMartin Cargeeg·11 Sep 2026·6 min read A trader at a laptop showing a live candlestick chart and order book Reality check Can you actually make money trading forex? Five UK-regulated brokers are legally required to publish what share of their retail accounts lose money. We read all five. MCMartin Cargeeg·10 Sep 2026·6 min read Rows of servers under blue and magenta light AI Is AI taking over trading? Everyone quotes 89%. The BIS measured 59%, and it hasn’t moved since 2022. MCMartin Cargeeg·3 Sep 2026·6 min read A candlestick chart falling sharply, then recovering Risk What is max drawdown? The biggest drop your account has ever taken — and why losing 50% means making 100% to get back. MCMartin Cargeeg·3 Sep 2026·5 min read A laptop showing a filled-in table of entries Templates A sample trading journal Twelve trades, filled in. The month made +5.8R — and the record says something else entirely. MCMartin Cargeeg·3 Sep 2026·4 min read An open notebook and pen on a wooden desk beside a laptop Fundamentals What is a trading journal? Your broker records what happened. A journal records why — including the trades you didn’t take. MCMartin Cargeeg·3 Sep 2026·5 min read Scattered white cubes, one in focus Fundamentals Trading journal examples Notebook, spreadsheet, Notion, app. What each one is good at, and what each one quietly loses. MCMartin Cargeeg·3 Sep 2026·5 min read A laptop showing a live trading chart on a cafe table Prop firms Prop firm drawdown, explained properly Static, trailing and equity are three different rules — and the wrong assumption is what fails accounts. MCMartin Cargeeg·27 Aug 2026·6 min read

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