Trader Profiles
Larry Williams and the Problem With a Record Year
Larry Williams is famous for turning a small futures account into a contest legend. The more useful story is what that record does not teach.
Trading stories without signals
Trader stories, hard lessons, and the cost of being wrong.
Margin of Pain publishes essays about famous traders, brutal market mistakes, position sizing, drawdowns, and survival.
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Trader Profiles
Readable dossiers on how serious traders think, wait, size, and survive.
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Market Blowups
Bad exits, hidden leverage, fraud, panic, and trades that went too far.
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Risk Lessons
Stops, sizing, patience, concentration, liquidity, and being wrong.
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