Why traders lose quiz

1. In 1,814 real setups in our library, how often was the stop hit before the target?

1. About 1 in 10
2. About 1 in 3
3. About half the time
4. Almost never

2. Bitcoin moves about 0.7% in a normal hour. What is a 0.3% stop on an hourly chart like?

1. A safe stop
2. A coin toss: hit about as often as the target
3. A stop that is never hit
4. A stop with plenty of room

3. Why do so many stops sit just under the last low?

1. Exchanges put them there
2. It is the obvious spot, so many traders pick it
3. It is required by law
4. It is always the safest spot

4. Your position is so big that you can only afford a 0.5% stop. What do you fix first?

1. Move the stop closer
2. Make the position smaller
3. Remove the stop
4. Add more to the trade

5. Price is near your stop. Moving the stop further away mostly changes…

1. Nothing at all
2. How much the loss costs, not how often it happens
3. The trade into a winner
4. The market's direction

6. What does "stop first, size second" mean?

1. Pick your size, then your stop
2. Decide where the idea is wrong, then work out the size
3. Always use a 1% stop
4. Never use a stop

7. Your account is $10,000 and you accept 1% per trade. How much is that?

1. $10
2. $100
3. $1,000
4. $1

8. You accept $100. Your stop is 2.2% away. What is your size?

1. $220
2. $1,000
3. $4,545
4. $10,000

9. Your stop has to be twice as far away. To keep the same dollar risk, your size should…

1. Double
2. Stay the same
3. Halve
4. Go to zero

10. Why is a 1% stop on a 4-hour Bitcoin chart often a poor choice?

1. It is too far away
2. A normal 4-hour candle moves about 1.5%, so noise can reach it
3. Exchanges do not allow it
4. It always makes money

11. When price broke below a recent low (28,975 cases), how often did that same candle close back above it?

1. About 1 in 10
2. About a quarter
3. More than half
4. Never

12. Your stop is one tick under the low. When price dips under the low, the stop is…

1. Hit every time
2. Hit half the time
3. Never hit
4. Moved for you

13. With half a normal candle of room, how often did price bounce a full candle back up before touching the stop?

1. 0%
2. 36%
3. 90%
4. 100%

14. You give your stop more room. What else must change?

1. Buy more
2. Make the size smaller, so the dollar risk stays the same
3. Nothing
4. Remove the target

15. Is extra room a guarantee?

1. Yes, a wide stop is never hit
2. No: most breaks still went deeper within 12 candles
3. Only on Bitcoin
4. Only at night

16. 979 real trades hit their stop. How often did price come back to the entry before falling another full stop?

1. About 10%
2. About half: 52%
3. Every time
4. Never

17. You move the stop down and price does not come back. Your loss…

1. Stays the same
2. Roughly doubles
3. Disappears
4. Halves

18. Which way may a stop move?

1. Down, away from the price
2. Up, toward profit
3. Any way you like
4. It may never move

19. On 1,726 real setups, moving the stop to the entry after a one-stop move in profit…

1. Turned every trade into a winner
2. Saved 132 losing trades but cut 72 winners short
3. Changed nothing
4. Doubled the profits

20. Bitcoin, May 2022: the stop was hit the next day. What came after?

1. Price went straight up
2. Price touched about 33% lower within eight days
3. Price stayed flat
4. Trading stopped

21. To the market, a stop loss is…

1. A buy order
2. A sell order waiting at a price
3. A free option
4. A fee

22. Why does price often dip just under an obvious low?

1. Stops pile up there, and big orders need them
2. The chart is wrong
3. Trading pauses there
4. It never does

23. After the breaking candle closed back above the low, how often did price rise a full candle first?

1. 20%
2. 54%
3. 90%
4. 5%

24. After a close below the low, how often did price rise a full candle first?

1. 20%
2. 54%
3. 74%
4. 100%

25. The candle closes below the low and keeps falling. What does your stop do?

1. Nothing useful
2. It gets you out, which is its job
3. It makes the loss bigger
4. It should be moved lower

26. In India's one-year study, how many of every 100 individual traders in futures and options lost money?

1. About 1 in 10
2. About half
3. 91 out of 100
4. Every single one

27. What does "losing is the default" mean?

1. Only beginners lose money
2. Most traders lose; it is not a flaw in you
3. Losses come from bad luck alone
4. Every trade you make will lose

28. In Taiwan, how many day traders made reliable profits after fees?

1. More than 80 in 100
2. About half
3. About 1 in 3
4. Fewer than 1 in 100

29. Which are the three doors the money leaves through?

1. Costs, leverage and the other side of your trade
2. Bad luck, rumours and stop hunting
3. Slow apps, bad news and busy days
4. The wrong chart, pattern or timeframe

30. Picture 100 people like the Brazil group. About how many earned more than the minimum wage from day trading?

1. About 97
2. About 10
3. About 3
4. About 1

31. An example $1,000 trade pays 0.1% each way. What do fees cost to get in and out once?

1. $1
2. $2
3. $10
4. Nothing if the trade wins

32. What is the spread?

1. A fee charged once a month
2. How far your stop is from your entry
3. The gap between the buy price and the sell price
4. How much the price moves in a day

33. Your order fills at a worse price than the one you clicked. What is that called?

1. Slippage
2. The spread
3. Leverage
4. A stop loss

34. You trade an example $1,000 back and forth 50 times, at 0.1% each way. What do the fees alone cost?

1. $2
2. $50
3. $1,000
4. $100

35. An example $1,000 trade gains $3 before costs. The fee is $1 in and $1 out. What do you keep, before spread and slippage?

1. $3
2. $2
3. $1
4. Nothing at all

36. What is leverage?

1. Trading with borrowed money
2. A fee paid on every trade
3. The price where you give up
4. A way to make losses smaller

37. You put in $1,000 at 10x. Price moves 1% against you. How much of your money is that?

1. 0.1%
2. 1%
3. 100%
4. 10%

38. At 10x, how big a move against you wipes out all the money you put in?

1. 1%
2. 10%
3. 50%
4. 100%

39. Between 74 and 89 in 100 leveraged accounts of ordinary EU traders lost money. What does leverage change?

1. Your odds of being right
2. Whether prices go up
3. How fast gains and losses arrive
4. Nothing at all

40. At 25x, about how big a price move against you empties the money you put in?

1. 25%
2. 10%
3. 4%
4. 1%

41. Before costs, futures and options trading is zero-sum. What does that mean?

1. Everyone ends at zero
2. What one side gains, the other side gives up
3. Nobody can lose money
4. Both sides always win

42. In India, in one year, who made about $7 billion from futures and options, before costs?

1. Individual traders
2. The regulator
3. Nobody: everyone lost
4. Trading firms and foreign funds

43. Where did 96 to 97% of those firms' profit come from?

1. Computer programs that trade
2. Tips shared online
3. A few lucky days
4. Holding shares for years

44. After costs, what happens to both sides of futures and options trades, added together?

1. They break even
2. They both gain
3. They lose, because both pay costs
4. Only the winner pays costs

45. The busiest traders earned 11.4% a year while the market earned 17.9%. How far behind the market were they?

1. Not at all: they made money
2. 11.4 points a year
3. 17.9 points a year
4. 6.5 points a year

46. You lose 50% of your account. What gain gets you back to where you started?

1. 50%
2. 75%
3. 100%
4. 200%

47. You lose 10%. What gain do you need to get back?

1. 11.1%
2. 10%
3. 9%
4. 20%

48. An example $1,000 loses 50%, then gains 50%. Where does it end?

1. $1,000
2. $750
3. $500
4. $250

49. An example $1,000 account has fallen to $750. What gain gets it back to $1,000?

1. 25%
2. 50%
3. 75%
4. 33.3%

50. One trader loses 10%, another loses 50%. The second loss is 5 times bigger. The gain the second one needs is…

1. 5 times bigger
2. About 9 times bigger
3. Twice as big
4. The same

51. In the 1% rule, what is "risk"?

1. The full size of the trade
2. The fee on the trade
3. How far price moves in a day
4. What you lose if your stop is hit

52. You risk 1% per trade and lose ten in a row. About how much of the account is left?

1. 90.4%
2. 34.9%
3. 10%
4. Nothing

53. An example $10,000 account risks 1%, and the stop is $2 from the entry. How many units fit that risk?

1. 2 units
2. 50 units
3. 100 units
4. 200 units

54. Which order does the 1% rule use to plan a trade?

1. Pick the size, then the stop, then see the loss
2. Pick a winner first, then think about risk
3. Dollars you can lose, then the stop, then the size
4. Set a target, then add until it feels right

55. After ten losses at 10% each, 34.9% of the account is left. How much must that grow to get back to the start?

1. About 10%
2. By about half
3. It must double
4. Almost triple: 2.87 times

56. What is a win rate?

1. The share of trades you win
2. How much a win pays
3. The fee on each trade
4. How fast the price moves

57. You win 80 of 100 trades at $1 each and lose 20 at $5 each. What is the result?

1. +$80
2. $0
3. +$60
4. −$20

58. Your wins get bigger compared with your losses. What happens to the win rate you need?

1. It goes up
2. It goes down
3. It stays at 50%
4. It stops mattering

59. Each win pays $3 and each loss costs $1. What win rate do you need to break even, before fees?

1. 75%
2. 50%
3. 25%
4. 33.3%

60. Our real setups paid 1.5 to 1, and 33% reached the planned profit price first. What does that mean?

1. A small profit, before fees
2. 7 points short of the 40% needed
3. Exactly break-even
4. Plenty: 33% is a high win rate

61. What does expectancy tell you?

1. How often you win
2. What one trade is worth on average
3. Your biggest win so far
4. How many trades to make a day

62. Win 40% making $150, lose 60% giving up $100. What is the expectancy per trade, before fees?

1. +$150
2. +$60
3. −$100
4. $0

63. On average, 1,726 real pattern setups lost about 3 cents per $1 risked, before fees. What does that show?

1. Patterns alone were not an edge
2. Patterns are an edge after fees
3. Every setup lost
4. 3 cents is a small profit

64. A tip won three trades in a row. What does that tell you about an edge?

1. It proves an edge
2. It proves the tip came from a pro
3. Not much: an edge shows over many trades
4. It means the next trade will win too

65. You win 50% of trades making $150 and lose 50% giving up $100. What is the expectancy per trade, before fees?

1. $75
2. $25
3. $50
4. $0

66. In the study of 66,465 households, who earned the least?

1. The ones who traded the most
2. The ones who traded the least
3. Everyone earned about the same
4. Nobody: they all beat the market

67. Which costs does every trade pay?

1. Only a fee when the trade wins
2. Nothing, if you close it the same day
3. A fee in, a fee out, and the buy-sell price gap
4. A fee only on your very first trade

68. Each trade costs you $2 in fees, in and out. You go from 10 trades a week to 20. What happens to your weekly fees?

1. They stay at $20
2. They double, from $20 to $40
3. They drop, because you trade more
4. They rise by just $2

69. What did the researchers point to as the reason people trade too much?

1. Bad luck with timing
2. Not watching the charts enough
3. Fees too small to matter
4. Overconfidence: feeling more sure than the facts allow

70. The busiest traders earned 11.4% a year; the market earned 17.9%. How much of the market's return did they give up?

1. None: they still made money
2. About 6.5% of it
3. About 36% of it, over a third
4. Almost all of it

71. What is revenge trading?

1. Taking your planned trade at normal size
2. Going bigger to win a loss back
3. Stopping for the day after two losses
4. Closing a trade at your stop

72. Your normal loss is $100 and you double after each loss. What do three losses in a row cost?

1. $100
2. $300
3. $400
4. $700

73. You follow this lesson's rule, set before you trade. You have lost two trades today. What now?

1. Stop for the day
2. Double the next trade to catch up
3. One more trade at the same size
4. Switch to a faster chart

74. Your normal loss is $50 and you keep the same size after each loss. What do three losses in a row cost?

1. $50
2. $100
3. $150
4. $350

75. In our 1,814 real setups, 54% hit the stop first. Treating trades as separate, how often do three losses in a row come?

1. About 54%, the same as one loss
2. About 16%, one time in six
3. About 29%
4. Almost never

76. A normal Bitcoin hour moves about 0.7%, top to bottom. What is a 0.3% stop on an hourly chart?

1. A stop with plenty of room
2. A stop beyond a normal day's move
3. A stop inside the normal wiggle
4. A stop that is hit only on big news

77. On 12,926 real Bitcoin hours, a 0.3% stop against a 0.3% take-profit: which came first?

1. About even: 41.0% vs 41.5%
2. The stop, almost every time
3. The take-profit, almost every time
4. Neither was ever reached

78. Example fee: 0.1% to get in and 0.1% to get out. What does a 0.3% win keep?

1. 0.3%
2. 0.5%
3. 0.2%
4. 0.1%

79. Same example fees, 0.1% each way. You win one 0.3% trade and lose one 0.3% trade. Where do you end up?

1. Even, at 0%
2. Down 0.4%
3. Up 0.1%
4. Down 0.2%

80. You widen your stop from 0.3% to 0.7% but keep the same size. What happens to your dollar risk?

1. It more than doubles
2. It stays the same
3. It halves
4. It drops to zero

81. Compared with winning the same amount, how strongly does a loss tend to hit?

1. About half as strong
2. About the same
3. About ten times as strong
4. About twice as strong

82. Right after a loss, what does the pain push many traders to do?

1. Take a break until tomorrow
2. Trade bigger to win it back fast
3. Cut the next trade's size in half
4. Review the plan calmly

83. Why do people hold a losing trade too long?

1. Their plan told them to
2. Losing trades cost less in fees
3. Closing it makes the loss real, and that hurts
4. Losses always come back in time

84. If a loss weighs about twice as much as a win, a $50 loss hurts about as much as a win of…

1. $100
2. $50
3. $25
4. $500

85. You set your exit before entering. The trade hits it and loses $100. How should you judge it?

1. A bad trade, because it lost money
2. A sign to move the stop next time
3. A reason to trade bigger next time
4. A good trade, because you followed the plan

86. Why does more screen time tend to lead to more trades?

1. Every hour shows new wiggles that look like chances
2. The market moves more while you watch
3. Watching makes each trade safer
4. Fees get lower the longer you watch

87. Which is a good trading window?

1. All day, so you never miss a move
2. Whenever a big move starts
3. One or two set hours daily, rested and not rushed
4. Late at night, after a long day

88. Your cap is 2 trades a day. Both closed as winners, 30 minutes into your window. What now?

1. Keep going while you are on a roll
2. Take one more at double size
3. Raise today's cap to 3
4. Stop: the cap counts wins too

89. When should you decide your daily cap?

1. After your first loss
2. The night before
3. When a great setup appears
4. Once you reach the cap

90. Your window has ended and a perfect chance is forming. What does the lesson say to do?

1. Stay a little longer, just this once
2. Take it at a smaller size
3. Close the app; there will be another tomorrow
4. Move your window later from now on

91. You buy 10 coins at $100 and 10 more at $95. What is your average price?

1. $95
2. $97.50
3. $100
4. $105

92. After adding, you hold 20 coins instead of 10. What does each $1 fall now cost you?

1. $20
2. $10
3. $1
4. Nothing, since your average dropped

93. What is the fix for averaging down?

1. Add a little each time price falls
2. Move your stop lower after you add
3. Decide your full size before the first buy
4. Add only after your stop is hit

94. After 979 hit stops, price came back to the buy price first in 52%. Why is averaging down still a trap?

1. It is not: more than half came back first
2. Adding coins makes each $1 fall cost less
3. Your average price goes up when you add
4. In 39%, price first fell the same distance again

95. You buy 2 coins at $50 and plan to give up at $45. You buy 2 more at $45 instead. At $40, what is your loss?

1. $10
2. $20
3. $30
4. $40

96. What is a mental stop?

1. A stop order waiting in the market
2. A price where you take profit
3. A give-up price kept only in your head
4. A rule to stop trading for the day

97. Price passes your mental stop while you sleep. What happens?

1. The trade closes at your price
2. The market waits until you wake
3. The trade closes at a better price
4. Nothing: no order was there to act

98. Your give-up price is 2% away and a normal Bitcoin day spans 3.9%. You look away all day. What can happen?

1. Price can pass your number with nothing to stop it
2. Price cannot move 2% in one day
3. The trade closes itself at exactly 2%
4. Nothing, since most days are calm

99. Why do many traders freeze when price reaches their mental stop?

1. Their stop order already closed the trade
2. Closing means choosing pain, and a loss hurts about double
3. Rules forbid closing a losing trade
4. Price always stalls near a stop

100. What is the honest downside of a real stop order in a fast market?

1. It never fills at all
2. It makes the possible loss unlimited
3. It closes trades at random times
4. It can fill a little worse than your price

101. After 919 huge green candles, what came first?

1. A crash, almost every time
2. A rise, almost every time
3. No move at all for 12 candles
4. A rise in about half, a fall in 41%

102. You buy at the top of a big green candle and put your stop under it. How far away is that stop, typically?

1. About half a normal candle
2. Almost 3 normal candles
3. About 1 normal candle
4. About 10 normal candles

103. What were the next 12 candles like after a big green candle?

1. Bigger: about 1.6 times normal size
2. Calmer than normal
3. The same as after any candle
4. Almost flat

104. You usually risk $100 with a stop 1 normal candle away. A big-candle stop is 3 candles away. At the same size, what is at risk?

1. $33
2. $100
3. $300
4. $1,000

105. A big candle is in your plan, and the stop under it is 3 normal candles away. How do you keep your usual risk?

1. Use about one third of your usual size
2. Use three times your usual size
3. Keep your usual size and skip the stop
4. Use a 1-candle stop inside the big candle

106. What is the disposition effect?

1. Selling winners too soon and holding losers too long
2. Holding winners and selling losers fast
3. Buying more as price falls
4. Trading only in set hours

107. In 10,000 accounts, how did the chance of selling a stock at a gain compare with one at a loss?

1. About the same
2. About half as likely
3. About 50% more likely
4. About 10 times as likely

108. Over the next year, how did the winners people sold compare with the losers they kept?

1. The losers kept did about 3.4 points better
2. The winners sold did about 3.4 points better
3. Both did exactly as well as the market
4. Both beat the market by about 2.35%

109. You open a trade with a give-up price 2% below and a take-profit 4% above. Price rises 2% and you want to sell. What now?

1. Sell now and lock in the 2%
2. Move the give-up price lower for room
3. Sell half and drop both exits
4. Leave both exits where you set them

110. After you sell, your old winner rises another 3%. The loser you kept falls another 1%. How many points better did the sold one do?

1. 1 point
2. 2 points
3. 3 points
4. 4 points

111. What does a call option pay on its expiry day?

1. Always its cost back
2. Price minus the strike, or zero
3. The strike price itself
4. Twice what it cost

112. What happens to the time part of an option's price as expiry gets closer?

1. It grows each day
2. It stays the same
3. It turns negative
4. It shrinks, to zero on the last day

113. Price is $100 and the strike is $110, with one day left. How much must price rise for the option to pay anything?

1. More than 1%
2. More than 5%
3. More than 10%
4. Any rise at all

114. What did India's market regulator find for the year to March 2026?

1. 59% of index option trading was on expiry day
2. Expiry-day trading had almost stopped
3. Most individual traders made money
4. Options caused only a small share of losses

115. The example option needs a 5.2% rise in one day to get its 20 cents back. Why does it end at $0 on a normal day?

1. Fees take the whole 5.2%
2. The strike moves up each day
3. Options can never pay out
4. A normal day spans only 3.9%, top to bottom

116. What is tilt?

1. Trading while a loss still stings
2. A chart pattern that leans to one side
3. A fee charged after a losing trade
4. A rule for moving your stop

117. Which of these is one of the four signs of tilt?

1. Waiting for your setup
2. Setting your stop before you click
3. Making the next trade bigger after a loss
4. Keeping the same size all day

118. Why does the fourth sign, "I'll win it back today", slip past so easily?

1. It is part of a good trading plan
2. It sounds like a goal, but the loss is picking your next trade
3. It only shows up after a big win
4. It only happens to beginners

119. In one study, what did professional traders often do after losing money in the morning?

1. Stopped trading for the day
2. Cut their size in half
3. Traded only their best setup
4. Took above-average risk that afternoon

120. Your normal size is 1 unit. Minutes after a loss, you place 2 units on a chart you had not planned to trade. Which signs show?

1. Only a bigger size
2. A bigger size and faster trades
3. Only a skipped stop
4. None: a bigger size shows confidence

121. After a big loss or a broken rule, what does the 24-hour rule say?

1. Trade smaller for 24 hours
2. No new trades for 24 hours
3. Trade only your best setup
4. Double your size to win it back

122. When should you decide what counts as a big loss?

1. Now, while you are calm, in writing
2. Right after the loss, while it stings
3. At the end of a losing week
4. When the next trade looks good

123. Why does taking away the next trade stop the tilt loop?

1. The market calms down after 24 hours
2. Losses shrink if you wait a day
3. Every turn of the loop needs a next trade
4. Fees are lower the next day

124. What makes the 24-hour rule stick?

1. Watching the charts all day without trading
2. Deleting the losing trade from your records
3. Opening one small trade to stay sharp
4. Writing down the trade and reading it before trading again

125. You skipped your stop and lost $100, less than you planned to lose today. What does the 24-hour rule say?

1. Keep trading, since the loss was small
2. One more trade to win back the $100
3. No new trades for 24 hours: you broke a rule
4. Keep trading, but at half size

126. When should you pick your daily loss limit?

1. After your first loss of the day
2. When you feel the day going badly
3. At the end of the week
4. Before the day starts

127. Each trade can lose 1% of the account. How many losing trades reach a 2% daily limit?

1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

128. You hit your limit, and one more trade could get you back to even. What do you do?

1. Stop and close the trading app
2. Take it, but at a smaller size
3. Take it, then stop for the day
4. Raise the limit a little for today

129. A $10,000 account risks 1% per trade and sets a 3% daily limit. What is the most the day is planned to lose?

1. $100
2. $200
3. $300
4. $1,000

130. Your limit is 2% of the account or 3 losses in a row, whichever comes first. Each trade risks 1%. When does the day end?

1. After 3 losses in a row
2. After 2 losing trades
3. After 4 losing trades
4. When you decide you have had enough

131. Your stop is "somewhere near the last low". What does the first question tell you?

1. That is close enough
2. You are not ready: the stop must be an exact price
3. Set the stop after you click
4. Use a wider stop instead

132. Which of these means "no trade" under question four, am I calm?

1. A tight jaw
2. A written plan
3. A stop price you can say
4. A size from the one-line rule

133. You accept to lose $200, and your stop is $2 away. What size fits the one-line rule?

1. 400 units
2. 200 units
3. 100 units
4. 2 units

134. A new idea pops up that is not in the plan you wrote this morning. What does question three say?

1. Take it if the chart looks strong
2. Add it to the plan now, then take it
3. Take it at a smaller size
4. Skip it: if it is not written, it is not a plan

135. Your stop is set, your size fits the rule, and the trade is in your plan. But you are rushing. Is the trade ready?

1. Yes: three out of four is enough
2. No: one "no" means no trade yet
3. Yes, if the size is smaller
4. Yes, if the setup looks strong

136. In a trading journal, what is R?

1. The amount you risked on the trade
2. Your total profit for the month
3. The price where you got in
4. How many trades you made

137. You cannot fill in the stop price before you click. What does that tell you?

1. Fill it in after the trade
2. Trade a smaller size instead
3. Copy the stop from your last trade
4. No trade: you have your answer

138. Why write how you felt, in one word, for every trade?

1. It is needed to work out R
2. It can warn you about tilt before your balance does
3. It makes the next trade more likely to win
4. It replaces the reason tag

139. You took a trade because you were bored, and it won. Which tag do you write?

1. My setup, since it won
2. Leave the tag blank
3. Bored
4. Winning it back

140. Trade A risked $100 and made $200. Trade B risked $200 and made $200. Which did better, in R?

1. Trade A: +2R against +1R
2. Trade B, with +2R
3. Neither: both made $200
4. You cannot compare different sizes

141. In this lesson, what is your leak?

1. The tag that loses the most
2. A trade with no stop
3. A fee you forgot about
4. Your biggest single loss

142. Why use the same few tags every time?

1. So the journal looks tidy
2. So each tag's results can be added up
3. Because new tags cost money
4. So you trade less often

143. Example tags after 20+ trades: my setup +3R, boredom −6R, news −1R. Which one is the leak?

1. My setup
2. News
3. Boredom
4. None of them

144. You have logged 12 trades, and one "news" trade made +3R. What now?

1. Trade the news more often
2. Drop every other tag
3. Double your size on news trades
4. Keep logging until at least 20 trades

145. You found your leak. What is the best next step?

1. Stop that kind of trade for a month and change nothing else
2. Fix the leak and two other habits at the same time
3. Stop trading every tag for a month
4. Raise your size on your best tag to make up for it

146. You won 10 of your 20 trades this week. What is your win rate?

1. 10%
2. 20%
3. 50%
4. 100%

147. Which number in the weekly review do you fully control?

1. Your win rate
2. Your average win
3. The market's direction
4. Your rule breaks

148. After the review, how many changes do you make for next week?

1. As many as the numbers show
2. One, written at the top of your journal
3. None until the month ends
4. Three, one for each number

149. With a 35% win rate and average losses of 1R, what average win do you need just to break even, before fees?

1. 0.35R
2. 1R
3. About 1.9R
4. 5R

150. Your win rate is 35%, your average loss is 1R, and your average win is 1.5R. Before fees, what happens on average?

1. You lose money
2. You break even exactly
3. You make money, since each win is bigger than each loss
4. It depends only on the market

151. What does the 30-day reset ask for?

1. A weekend off, then your old size
2. 30 days of practice with no real money
3. 30 days of trading at half size
4. A week of practice, then real money

152. In practice, you skip the stop because the money is not real. What does that train?

1. Nothing: practice does not count
2. Faster reactions
3. The same habits that cost you
4. Better instincts for later

153. At the end of the 30 days, what does your practice journal show?

1. Whether you kept the rules
2. Exactly what you would have earned
3. Which setups will win next month
4. Where the market will go next

154. It is day 12 of your reset, and you feel ready for real money. What does the plan say?

1. Go back now, since you feel ready
2. Go back with half your usual size
3. Skip the journal from here on
4. Keep practicing until day 30

155. Why does the reset last 30 days and not just a weekend?

1. Charts only repeat once a month
2. The loss cools, and you get enough trades to see your habits
3. It takes a month to learn every pattern
4. Real accounts lock for 30 days

156. How big should your first real trades be after the reset?

1. Your old size
2. The smallest size you can
3. Twice your old size, to catch up
4. Whatever feels right that day

157. A real trade kept every rule but lost money. How do you score it?

1. Pass
2. Fail
3. Fail, unless the next one wins
4. It does not count

158. At your new size, a losing trade still stings. What does that tell you?

1. You need a wider stop
2. Trade more to make it back
3. Stop keeping the journal
4. The size is too big for this stage

159. Your first 3 real trades: 2 kept every rule and lost, 1 broke a rule and won. How many passes?

1. None
2. One
3. Two
4. Three

160. When may you raise your size, and by how much?

1. After one big win, by a lot
2. After a long run with no rule breaks, by one small step
3. Once the account is back to even, to your old size
4. Whenever a trade feels easy, by double

161. At least how many practice trades must be in your journal before you go back?

1. 10
2. 20
3. 50
4. 100

162. You pass all four checks. What does that mean?

1. You will make money from now on
2. Your rules held up in practice, not a promise of profit
3. You can go back to your old size
4. You can stop keeping a journal

163. You broke a rule on 2 of your last 10 practice trades. Does the 9-of-10 check pass?

1. No: two breaks in ten means more practice
2. Yes: 8 of 10 is close enough
3. Yes, if those trades still won
4. Yes, if your average R is above zero

164. What does a journal with no gaps mean?

1. Only the trades you are proud of
2. One entry per day
3. Only the trades that kept the rules
4. Every practice trade logged, the ugly ones too

165. Example: 50 practice trades, total +6R, but 10 of them broke a rule. Are you ready?

1. Yes: the average is above zero
2. No: 10 breaks in 50 is 2 in every 10
3. Yes: 50 trades is enough on its own
4. No: +6R is too small to count