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The TradeRegimen Blog
Long-form pieces on trading discipline, market regime analysis, position sizing, and the behavioral patterns that separate professional traders from retail.
VCP Patterns Explained: How to Scan for Volatility Contraction Setups
What shrinking pullbacks and quieter volume mean, where the method needs judgment, and what TradeRegimen's current candidate screen actually checks.
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When Is a Trading Setup Still Valid?
Separate a screening match from an actionable plan and a tracked outcome, with TradeRegimen's current lifecycle rules and freshness limits.
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How to Use Stage Analysis to Identify Stocks in an Uptrend
A strong Stage 2 case requires more than one close above a moving average. Read the weekly trend, range position, persistence, and volume before evaluating an entry.
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Position Coaching: Review an Open Trade Against Its Plan
Review initial risk, current R, configured scale-out checkpoints, stop state, and extension context without treating software as an order manager.
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Automated Trading Journals: What to Prefill and What to Review
Separate imported trade facts, calculated fields, and human reflection while accounting for broker coverage, review cadence, and missing data.
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Entry Grading: Measure Process Without Predicting Outcomes
See how the current seven-condition stock-entry scorecard works, what A+ through F means, and where the separate Constitution checklist begins.
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VIX Spikes and Put Selling: What a Setup Check Cannot Decide
Separate the current volatility trigger and chart filter from the options, suitability, and risk inputs the setup check does not evaluate.
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Edgewonk vs TradeRegimen: A Workflow Comparison
Edgewonk offers broad multi-market journaling, imports, and simulation. TradeRegimen focuses on saved rules and open-position review for U.S. momentum traders.
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MarketSmith, Now MarketSurge, vs TradeRegimen: A Workflow Comparison
MarketSmith now points to MarketSurge. Compare its IBD research, charting, pattern recognition, alerts, and current pricing with TradeRegimen's narrower rules workflow.
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TraderSync vs TradeRegimen: A Workflow Comparison
Compare TraderSync's broad multi-asset journal with TradeRegimen's narrower U.S. momentum workflow for manual plan checks, Market Context, and recorded-position review.
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What Is the Zweig Breadth Thrust?
The standard 10-day EMA formula, the data choices that can change a reading, and the limits of treating breadth as a forecast.
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R-Multiple Position Sizing: Formula, Examples, and Limits
Calculate planned risk per share, shares by risk, and realized R, then account for position-value and portfolio constraints.
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How to Read Market Context Without Treating It as a Buy Signal
Separate the attributed model, SPY and QQQ tape, breadth, leadership, and your own rule when the market evidence disagrees.
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How to Stop Revenge Trading With a Precommitted Process
Define an observable loss boundary, a response, and a review record without pretending an app controls your broker.
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Why Do I Keep Breaking My Trading Rules? A Workflow Audit
Turn one recurring exception into a specific input, threshold, response, and review record without confusing an app check with broker enforcement.
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Trading Psychology or Trading Systems? Start With the Workflow
Psychology and process can both matter. Reconstruct the decision before deciding whether the rule, workflow, or reflection practice needs work.
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7 Trading Rules for Momentum Traders: A Practical Checklist
Define measurable rules for risk, loss limits, stops, Market Context, concentration, exits, and review while keeping broker execution separate.
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How to Build a Trading Constitution Step by Step
Define supported risk, loss, capacity, Market Context, and scale-out rules as checkable inputs while keeping broker execution separate.
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What Is a Trading Constitution? A Structured Rules Framework
See which risk, capacity, loss, Market Context, and scale-out rules TradeRegimen can store, check, and preserve for review.
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How Portfolio Risk Limits Position Size
Calculate whole shares from entry, stop, risk per trade, remaining portfolio risk, position value, open slots, and your saved Market Context rule.
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How to Build a Momentum Watchlist With Moving-Average Alignment
Turn a long ticker list into a reviewable roster with dated evidence, one next decision, and a clear removal rule.
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A Clearer Market Dashboard: Regime, Environment, and Rally Confirmation
See how risk posture, SPY and QQQ trend, breadth, and follow-through confirmation fit into one top-down market view.
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How to Set Stop Losses for Swing Trading: Stop First, Size Second
Choose the invalidation level from the setup, check the distance against recent volatility, and only then calculate the shares that fit your risk rules.
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How to Improve Trading Discipline With a Repeatable Process
Turn broad trading intentions into specific rules you can check before entry, track while a position is open, and review after the trade.
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What Is a Follow-Through Day? A Transparent Tracking Method
The exact correction, Rally Day 1, Day 4, price, volume, invalidation, and distribution rules behind a transparent follow-through tracker.
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Signal-Based vs. Discretionary Entries: What the Data Actually Shows
Most traders mix signal-based and discretionary entries without measuring the difference. Here's what the performance data typically reveals — and why the gap matters more than you think.
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Learn Momentum Trading Inside the App: Proficiency-Adaptive Education That Grows With You
Most trading apps assume you already know the terminology. TradeRegimen's education layer adapts to your experience level — explaining every concept in context, so you learn by doing instead of studying.
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Historical Selloff Pattern Matching: How to Know If This Dip Is Buyable
Not all market selloffs are equal. By cataloging every significant drop across five dimensions — ATR extension, VIX spike, regime, breadth, and leader behavior — you can compare the current selloff to history and act on probability instead of panic.
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Custom Screening Presets: Build Your Own Stock Screener That Scans Your Watchlist, Not the Entire Market
Most stock screeners scan 600+ tickers with generic filters. Custom screening presets flip the model: start with your watchlist, apply your rules, and surface only the setups that matter on names you already know.
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Multi-Anchor ATR Extension: Why One Moving Average Isn't Enough to Time Profits
Most tools measure extension from one moving average. Backtests across 2,700 tickers show that checking four anchors simultaneously — 10 EMA, 21 EMA, 50 SMA, and 200 SMA — produces dramatically better profit-taking signals.
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Beta-Adjusted Relative Strength: The Scanner Momentum Traders Actually Need
Raw relative strength misleads during selloffs. Beta-adjusted RS reveals which stocks are truly outperforming — and which are just low-beta passengers.
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TradeRegimen vs TradeZella: Which Trading Tool Is Right for You in 2026?
TradeZella is a post-trade journal. TradeRegimen adds pre-trade Constitution checks and open-position rule tracking.
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How to Stop Cutting Winning Trades Early (A Systematic Approach)
Cutting winners early is the most expensive behavioral bias in trading. It is also the most fixable — if you stop treating it as a willpower problem.
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