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What Really Fuels a Momentum Move: Reading Drivers Through Volume, Velocity and Price-Impact
Momentum candles can look identical on a chart even when the forces behind them are completely different, so this article explains how to use volume, velocity and price-impact to diagnose what is actually driving a move before building a strategy around it.
Study Your Own Trades: Using a Simple Journal to Calibrate Position Size Over Time
Instead of picking one sizing rule and forgetting it, beginners can use a basic trade log to see how their past position sizes actually affected drawdown and comfort, then adjust future entries accordingly.
Lump Sum or Drip-Fed Buys? Let Your Drawdown Comfort Decide Your Position-Sizing Method
Before you decide how much to buy each time, decide how you want to buy at all — this article explains how your tolerance for drawdown should shape the choice between lump-sum investing and spreading purchases over time.
Trailing Stops and Exits: Why Trailing Too Soon Can Shrink Your Winning Trades
Moving your stop the moment a trade shows a small profit often does more harm than good; learn why waiting for a confirmed move to prove itself can protect both your winners and your risk plan.
The Three-Gate Entry Checklist: Setup, Location and Catalyst Confirmed by Volume, Velocity and Price-Impact
Learn how to turn a simple three-step entry framework into an objective, sequential checklist where volume, velocity and price-impact decide whether a trade actually qualifies for execution.
Behind Every Scanner Filter: What Meme-Coin Screening Tools Are Really Checking On-Chain
Trading videos tell you to set filters before buying a new token, but they rarely explain that each filter is just a shortcut for checking mint authority, supply, liquidity, and settlement — this article breaks down what's actually being measured.
Beginner
Start here: wallets, candles and how on-chain markets work.
What is a token?
Supply, decimals, mint addresses and why the ticker is not the identity.
How on-chain trades settle
Transactions, signatures, slots and finality.
Seed phrases and private keys
Never share them. No legitimate app asks for them.
1m to 1d: choosing a timeframe
Why the same market looks different on 1m and 4h charts.
Mint and freeze authority
What each authority allows and why revoked is safer.
Intermediate
Level 2, liquidity, slippage, sizing and risk.
Order books versus AMM pools
OpenBook and Phoenix have resting orders; Raydium and Orca have curves.
Holder concentration
Why the top-10 share matters more than holder count.
Buy versus sell volume
Buy pressure and why volume without price movement matters.
Price impact versus slippage
Impact is caused by your own trade; slippage is the tolerance you set.
Risk per trade
The 1% rule and how to compute size from your stop distance.
Drawdowns and recovery math
A 50% loss needs a 100% gain to recover.
Advanced
Strategies with defined entry, invalidation and exit.