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Product·Oct 2, 2026·5 min read
TerraTrade's backtesting now has an AI agent beside your chart. It marks the levels, checks your entry, and shows what your setup would have made.
Journaling·Oct 13, 2026·8 min read
Learn how to journal options spreads with a parent trade record, leg-by-leg fills, net debit or credit, risk assumptions, adjustments, and closing events.
Market Insights·Oct 12, 2026·7 min read
Learn how to read Nasdaq NOII before the opening cross, decode its price and share fields, and record timestamped observations with a blank worksheet.
Market Education·Oct 8, 2026·6 min read
Learn how advance–decline counts and participation measures add context to index moves—and why market breadth indicators are not standalone signals.
Market Education·Oct 6, 2026·11 min read
Intraday traders can’t predict data or first reactions, but they can schedule risk. Use official calendars to plan size and execution around known volatility.
Market Insights·Oct 3, 2026·8 min read
CME’s E‑mini Equity Factor futures went live Sep 21, 2026. Here’s how to verify symbols, multipliers, hours, margins, months, and limits before trading.
Trading Psychology·Oct 2, 2026·11 min read
Turn late entries into data. Use a FOMO trading journal to tag, benchmark, and quantify the cost of chasing so you can change behavior with evidence.
Trading Psychology·Oct 1, 2026·9 min read
A practical plan for how to stop revenge trading: define measurable triggers, set if–then interruption rules, and add journal fields you can audit.
Risk Management·Sep 30, 2026·8 min read
Risk of ruin trading explained with the math that matters. See how win rate, payoff, and per‑trade risk interact, and why small risk unlocks a small edge.
Risk Management·Sep 29, 2026·11 min read
A practical, evidence-led protocol for trading drawdown rules: tiered triggers, precommitted size cuts, monitoring, and recovery criteria you can test.
Market Insights·Sep 28, 2026·7 min read
A dated, sourced weekly calendar of U.S. macro releases, earnings, and market‑structure items for Sep 28–Oct 2, 2026—no forecasts, just times to verify.
Risk Management·Sep 27, 2026·7 min read
Move beyond win rate. Learn the trading expectancy formula, R‑multiples, payoff ratio, variance, and execution costs—with worked examples you can reproduce.
Backtesting·Sep 24, 2026·11 min read
A practical guide to walk forward analysis trading: rolling fit/test windows, parameter stability, and decision rules that avoid leakage.
Strategies·Sep 23, 2026·11 min read
Plain-language definitions of dealer gamma and 0DTE, how expiry can look like pinning, and a vendor-agnostic, invalidatable test you can run.
Market Insights·Sep 21, 2026·6 min read
Sourced U.S. macro, earnings, and market-structure calendar for Sep 21–25, 2026. All times ET; verify on Federal Reserve, BLS, and New York Fed schedules.
Strategies·Sep 20, 2026·6 min read
Backtest the gap and go strategy without hindsight: define universe, time‑stamp catalysts, model the opening auction, and predeclare entries and exits.
Strategies·Sep 19, 2026·9 min read
A practical mean‑reversion setup: apply regime, extension, liquidity, and invalidation filters with OU or z‑score bands and a reproducible test plan.
Strategies·Sep 18, 2026·8 min read
Turn a vague pullback idea into a testable trend pullback strategy with measurable rules, ATR/Fibonacci options, and a reproducible backtest plan.
Strategies·Sep 17, 2026·10 min read
A practical VWAP strategy guide for intraday traders—three setups, explicit invalidation, and a reproducible backtest plan.
Strategies·Sep 16, 2026·7 min read
A practical opening range breakout strategy guide: define range, triggers, invalidation, filters, and a falsifiable backtest before risking capital.
Journaling·Sep 15, 2026·10 min read
Build a small, controlled set of trading journal tags for setup, execution, context, and mistakes—then lock it for 30 days to get clean, actionable analytics.
Market Insights·Sep 14, 2026·7 min read
A date-stamped, sourced calendar of U.S. macro and market-structure events for Sep 14–18, 2026, with official times and links for day-of verification.
Journaling·Sep 13, 2026·9 min read
A practical weekly trading review: tag trades, surface repeatable mistakes, and convert them into two if‑then rules you can test next week.
Market Insights·Sep 12, 2026·7 min read
CME’s 10‑Barrel WTI Crude Oil futures are pending after a postponed launch. Verify 24/7 access conventions, maintenance windows, and key specs on CME.
Product·Sep 11, 2026·9 min read
A practical replay protocol to remove hindsight, log each decision’s context, and score process and execution separately from PnL.
Backtesting·Sep 10, 2026·8 min read
Manual vs automated backtesting isn’t a rivalry. Match your method to your hypothesis, controlling bias, timing, execution, and reproducibility.
Journaling·Sep 9, 2026·8 min read
A step‑by‑step way to use a trading mistakes journal to separate valid losses from rule violations, then total avoidable cost by behavior without self‑shaming.
Journaling·Sep 8, 2026·10 min read
Turn recurring journal tags into explicit setup cards, review them on a spaced schedule, and backtest with controls to avoid overfitting.
Market Insights·Sep 7, 2026·7 min read
A verification-first U.S. macro and Fed event calendar for Sep 7–11, 2026—times in ET, sourced from BLS, the Fed Board, and the New York Fed.
Market Education·Sep 6, 2026·8 min read
A practical pre-earnings checklist: verify dates on EDGAR, plan for guidance gaps, and decide if you’re trading a catalyst or an ordinary setup.
Market Insights·Sep 5, 2026·9 min read
CME sets Sept 11, 2026 start for 24/7 trading in 100‑Ounce Silver futures; see sessions, weekend access, risk controls, and how to verify go‑live vs cutovers.
Futures·Sep 4, 2026·8 min read
Plain-English guide to futures rollover: contract months, how liquidity migrates, how final settlement works, and a neutral pre-roll checklist.
Futures·Sep 3, 2026·8 min read
See NQ vs MNQ contract size side by side, with CME multipliers, tick values, calendar-spread increments, and neutral sizing examples you can verify.
Brokers·Sep 2, 2026·2 min read
Import Webull stocks or options into TerraTrade from a desktop Orders CSV, with the exact export steps, file limit, and duplicate handling.
Connect TopstepX futures to TerraTrade with automatic sync or import an Orders CSV. See the exact API-key, account-picker, and upload steps.
Connect tastytrade to TerraTrade with a read-only OAuth grant, choose your accounts, and keep stocks, options, and crypto trades in sync.
Connect Robinhood to TerraTrade for automatic stocks, options, futures, or crypto imports using the correct sign-in or API-key flow.
Brokers·Sep 2, 2026·1 min read
Connect OANDA to TerraTrade with a personal access token, choose the correct live or practice environment, and select the forex accounts to sync.
Connect Kraken to TerraTrade with a read-only API key so crypto fills auto-sync into your journal. Follow the exact permissions and fields.
Authorize cTrader from TerraTrade, choose live or demo accounts, and automatically sync forex fills into a separate journal for each account.
Connect Coinbase to TerraTrade with a view-only CDP API key so your crypto fills import automatically. Here are the exact fields and steps.
Futures·Sep 2, 2026·5 min read
A practical primer on CME futures contract specifications: tick size, tick value, multipliers, sessions, and expiry—plus a 5‑minute verification checklist.
Backtesting·Sep 1, 2026·8 min read
There’s no magic trade count. Learn how to size a backtest for confidence, cover regimes, and avoid false certainty using sample‑size math and validation steps.
Comparisons·Aug 28, 2026·5 min read
TraderSync claims 700+ broker integrations. TerraTrade matches every fill to the cent and includes backtesting and replay. A price-by-price, honest comparison.
Pine Script's Strategy Tester and Bar Replay against a purpose-built manual backtester with honest fills, prop-firm rules, and a journal underneath.
Comparisons·Aug 28, 2026·4 min read
TradeZella leads the category in breadth. Here's where TerraTrade's FIFO engine, MAE/MFE, and grounded AI win — and where 500+ brokers still matter.
An honest-fills backtester that writes real journal trades, vs the market leader's replay. Where each wins, with prices and caps as of August 2026.
A respected forex-first replay tool against a multi-asset backtester with an honest fill engine, prop-firm rules, and a full journal underneath.
Product·Aug 28, 2026·2 min read
One hub that journals every trade, backtests every idea, and learns how you trade. Here's what's in the rebuild — and what it costs.
Edgewonk costs $197 a year and owns trading psychology. TerraTrade automates the journal and adds backtesting, replay, and grounded AI. Compared honestly.
Comparisons·Aug 28, 2026·6 min read
TerraTrade, TradeZella, TraderSync, Edgewonk, and Tradervue compared on price, auto-sync, analytics, backtesting, and AI — with sources and dates.
The journal does the measuring for you — connect a broker and see what your own numbers say.
