The Viktury blog
Written for working traders.
Journaling techniques, crypto-specific accounting, and the questions your trade data can answer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.