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Written for working traders.
Journaling techniques, crypto-specific accounting, and the questions your trade data can answer.
Hyperliquid trade history: how to export it and turn fills into trades
Where your Hyperliquid trade history lives, what the CSV export leaves out, and how to turn a list of fills, TWAP slices and hourly funding payments into a real PnL per trade.Read the post →Hyperliquid funding too high? What it costs you and what you can do about it
What a high Hyperliquid funding rate costs as a share of your margin, and your options: hold for fewer hours, trade spot, take the side that collects, hedge with spot, or compare with another exchange.Read →How leverage is calculated: margin, position value and liquidation price
How margin, position value, PnL and liquidation price are worked out on a leveraged trade, with worked numbers and isolated-margin liquidation prices from 5x to 100x.Read →Crypto trade log example: five trades filled in, and what they tell you
A filled-in crypto trade log: five futures trades with their risk, net PnL and R, then the win rate, profit factor and how one moved stop turned the week into a loss.Read →Position sizing with leverage: how to work out the size
Leverage changes the margin you tie up, not what you lose at the stop. A worked example that sizes a futures position from account risk, stop distance and fees, and why too much leverage can stop your stop from ever firing.Read →Hyperliquid funding rate: how the hourly rate is set and what it adds up to
How Hyperliquid works out its hourly funding rate, how to compare it with exchanges that quote funding every 8 hours, and a worked example of a short that collects funding while it is open.Read →Binance TR trading journal: what your lira profit is worth in dollars
Why a Binance TR trade that made money in lira can be a loss in dollars, with a worked example, how to get your history into a trading journal, and why Convert transactions need recording separately.Read →Binance futures trading journal: fees, funding and the key that sees them
What a Binance USD-M futures trade costs once fees and funding are counted, a worked example, and why a read-only key or a CSV export leaves your funding out of the journal.Read →Hyperliquid trading journal: fills, fees and hourly funding
What a Hyperliquid perp trade really costs once fees and hourly funding are counted, a worked example, and how to get your history into a journal from a wallet address.Read →Bybit trading journal: export your spot history and see your real PnL
How to download your Bybit spot trade history as a CSV, which coin Bybit takes its fee in, and why some sells go unmatched in a trading journal.Read →Revenge Trading: How to Catch Tilt in Your Own Trade History
Tilt never feels like tilt in the moment. Here are the signatures revenge trading leaves in your trade data, and how to audit your own history for them.Read →Profit Factor: The Honest Number Behind Your Win Rate
What profit factor measures, how to compute it, what counts as good, and the ways it gets misread, with worked examples for crypto traders.Read →Inverse Contract PnL: Why Your Coin-Margined Trades Don't Add Up
How PnL actually works on inverse (coin-margined) contracts, the math most journals get wrong, and how to check whether your numbers are real.Read →How to Choose a Crypto Trading Journal: What Actually Matters
A practical checklist for evaluating any crypto trading journal: the math to verify, the security model to demand, and the features that turn out to be noise.Read →Crypto Trading Journal Spreadsheet: A Free Template, and Where It Breaks
A complete spreadsheet template for journaling crypto trades: the columns, the formulas, and an honest look at where spreadsheets stop working.Read →How to Journal Crypto Trades (the Right Way)
A practical guide to journaling crypto trades: what to record, how to handle funding and fees, and how to turn a trade log into an edge.Read →R-Multiples Explained for Crypto Traders
What R-multiples are, why they beat raw PnL for measuring your edge, and how to compute them correctly when funding and fees eat into crypto trades.Read →MAE & MFE: Reading Your Trade Excursions
Maximum Adverse and Maximum Favorable Excursion show how far trades move against and for you. They also reveal whether your stops and targets are in the right place.Read →TradeZella Alternative for Crypto Traders
TradeZella is a great journal for stocks and futures. If you trade crypto (perps, funding, inverse contracts), here's what a journal that gets crypto accounting right does differently.Read →Funding-Rate-Aware PnL: Why Crypto Journals Get This Wrong
Perpetual swap funding payments can flip a winning trade into a loser. Most journals ignore them entirely. Here's how to account for funding correctly.Read →Your trades have the answers. Ask them.
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