Foundry
Educational articles for serious traders. Market structure, risk management, and institutional theory.
Breakout Trading Strategy: One Pattern, Any Market
The breakout pattern that works across forex, crypto and indices, and the exact rules for trading it.
Slippage and How to Minimize It
Slippage Management Slippage is the difference between where you thought you’d get filled and where you actually got filled. It’s death by a thousand cuts…
The Art of Scaling In and Out
Market Timing Techniques You’ve heard “time in the market beats timing the market.” That’s solid advice for your 401k. It’s terrible advice for active trading.…
Adapting Style to Market Conditions
Finding Your Natural Style Most trading failures aren’t about strategy. They’re about fit. A patient person trying to day trade. An adrenaline-seeker attempting position trading.…
Range-Bound Market Tactics
Scalping: Not for Everyone Scalping is the Formula 1 racing of trading. Trades last seconds to minutes. Profits are measured in ticks, not points. A…
Breakout Trading
Position Trading Patience Position trading is the domain of patience. While day traders battle for pennies and swing traders capture weeks, position traders think in…
Mean Reversion Strategies
Swing Trading Foundations Somewhere between the adrenaline of day trading and the patience of position trading sits swing trading. It’s arguably the sweet spot for…
Trend Following Essentials
Day Trading Reality Check You’ve seen the ads. Laptop on a beach. “Make $5,000 before lunch.” It’s a tempting picture. It’s also mostly fiction. Day…
The Bond Market as a Crystal Ball
The Bond Market as a Crystal Ball What fixed income reveals about the future The Bond Market’s Predictive Power Bond markets reflect the collective wisdom…
Commodity Supercycles
GDP and Market Reactions Reading the scorecard of economic health The Three GDP Releases Advance GDP The first estimate, released about one month after the…