Clearer market prep, cleaner risk, better trade review.
Guides on AI trading journals, stock scanners, trading dashboards, market prep, trade review software, trading mindset, opening range breakouts, position sizing, and the repeatable routines behind MAC Terminal.
The PDT Rule Is Changing. Check Your Broker Before You Trade
FINRA’s new intraday-margin framework is effective, but brokers can transition through October 2027. Check what applies to your account before assuming the old trade-count limits are gone.
AI Trading Journal: Capabilities, Limits, and Product Reality
Evaluate AI-journal summaries against complete records, clear definitions, privacy controls, and the current product’s actual capabilities.
Stock Scanner: Build a Reviewable Candidate List
Use explicit filters, source labels, liquidity, structure, and evidence state to create candidates for review rather than trade signals.
Trading Dashboard: Organize the Workflow, Not the Noise
Connect context, candidates, evidence, planning, alerts, and review without hiding freshness or turning every widget into an instruction.
Market Prep Checklist: Build Context Before the Open
Organize calendar risk, market context, candidates, levels, and loss boundaries before the open—including a deliberate no-trade plan.
Trade Review Software: Build an Evidence-Based Weekly Review
Preserve the original plan, verify data quality, compare like with like, and make one process experiment testable at a time.
Trading Mindset: Build a Process Around Common Biases
Loss aversion, anchoring, recency bias, and outcome bias can distort decisions. A written plan, pause points, and structured review make those tendencies easier to notice.
The Qullamaggie Playbook: Breakouts, Pivots, and Risk
A momentum framework built around a small set of repeatable patterns, defined invalidation, selective participation, and honest testing.
The Morning Flow: A Trading Prep Routine Before the Bell
Move from calendar and market context to a short watchlist, written levels, and a risk plan before any setup becomes urgent.
Trading Volume: Put Participation in Context
Volume describes participation, not direction. Compare it with the symbol's own history, price response, liquidity, and catalyst before drawing conclusions.
Opening Range Breakout: A Structured 9:45 AM Review
Use the first 15 minutes as visible reference points while accounting for volatility, liquidity, catalysts, and failed breaks.
The Compression Setup: Reading Contraction Before a Break
Tight ranges can describe a stock in balance, but they do not predict direction. Define the structure, confirmation, invalidation, and failure case.
The First Hour Rule: A Process for the Market Open
The open can concentrate news, order imbalances, and fast price discovery. Use a written plan to observe conditions, define levels, and decide when to stand aside.
Build a Trading Journal Habit That Produces Better Reviews
Record decisions consistently, review comparable trades, and turn repeated observations into small, testable process rules.
Market Regime: Describe Context Without Predicting the Day
Use trend, breadth, volatility, and sector participation to describe context without turning a compact label into a trade instruction.
Position Sizing: Turn a Risk Budget Into Share Size
Start with a loss budget and invalidation level, calculate an initial share count, then apply liquidity, exposure, and execution constraints.
Risk Management: Define Losses Before They Become Decisions
Define invalidation, calculate size, account for slippage and correlated exposure, and review planned versus realized loss.
Sector Rotation: Read Leadership Without Chasing It
Sector performance adds context, but leadership changes and concentrated ETFs can hide mixed internals. Use rotation as one input, not a prediction.