Print it.
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A rule only works if you read it at the moment you're about to break it — and that moment is never when you're browsing a website. These are one page each, letter size, built to print. Light and dark versions of every one. Free, no signup, no email required.
Last updated July 11, 2026
10 Trading Psychology Rules
Ten traps — and the rule that beats each one
Most people don't lose money because they can't read a chart. They lose because of what happens in their head when the position turns red. Each of these ten rules answers one of the traps in my Trading Psychology Quiz — moving your stop, needing to be right, sizing up after a hot streak. Not trade advice. Rules about process, which is the part nobody tests you on.
The thinking draws on Mark Douglas's Trading in the Zone.
5 A+ Setup Must-Haves
The pre-trade checklist I run before I size in
Five criteria, all of which have to check out before I take full size: price above VWAP, 9 EMA above the 20 EMA, float under 20 million, clean price action, and range on the daily. Miss one and I reduce size and risk, or pass. Tick boxes are empty on purpose — laminate it and a dry-erase marker makes it reusable every session.
The checklist is Kev's; the explanations under each one are mine. He's seen it and signed off on it.
Because the moment you need a trading rule is the moment you're least likely to go looking for it. You're in a red position, your heart rate is up, and the last thing you're going to do is open a browser tab. A laminated sheet on the monitor bezel is in your line of sight when it counts — which is the only place a rule does any good.
Every one of these is one page, letter size, at 0.375" margins so it won't clip on a home printer. The dark versions print fine too, though most consumer printers leave a white border band since they can't print edge to edge. Nothing here is financial advice or a trade signal — they're rules about process and psychology, not about what to buy or when.
More printables are coming. If there's one you want, tell me what it is.