sakaantradelab

The $1,000 Experiment · v4.1a
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Total Trades
3
Win Rate
0%
Total P&L
-56.79
Avg R:R

Log a Trade

The discipline of logging builds the discipline of trading.

Exit ladder — optional (scaled TP1/TP2/runner + planned R:R)

Paste the calculator's blended R:R into Planned R:R. Analytics compares it to what you actually achieved.

Trade History

Click a row to see notes.

DateTimeSymbolDirEntryExitP&LSetupPlan
2026-05-2401:28HYPEUSDT SHORT 58.0460058.49809 -20.09 Mean reversion
2026-05-2321:53HYPEUSDT SHORT 56.2116256.78362 -21.23 Mean reversion
2026-05-2319:40BSBUSDT SHORT 1.24795201.2666643 -15.47 Mean reversion~

Expectancy & The Experiment

3 trades logged. Keep going — the verdict needs 30+ to mean anything. One trade is noise.
Expectancy / trade
-18.93
Profit Factor
0.00
Avg Win
Avg Loss
-18.93
Avg R Multiple
-1.00R
Best / Worst R
+-1.0 / -1.0
Current Streak
3L ⚠
Planned vs Actual R

Equity Curve

R-Multiple Distribution

Cumulative P&L

Wins vs Losses

P&L by Setup

Plan Adherence

P&L by Day & Hour (your death-hour finder)

The Playbook

Amateurs obsess over entries. Professionals obsess over size and stops. This is the part that keeps you in the game.

Position Size Calculator · Binance Futures

Fill the essentials, get your size and leverage. Costs auto-net using sensible defaults — open "Advanced costs" only to fine-tune fees, slippage and funding.

① Account
② The Trade
③ Exit Ladder — scale out

Each leg takes a price (or % move — they auto-sync) and a size % of the position. Set only TP1 at 100% for a single-target trade. The runner's size auto-fills from the leftover; give it a target if you want it counted in R:R, otherwise it free-runs on a trailing stop.

Quick-fill buttons for Size (%). Click the gear to edit their values.
LegPrice ($)% moveSize (%)
TP1
TP2
RUN

Fully allocated to TP1 + TP2 — no runner.

④ Advanced costs — optional (fees · slippage · funding)

Binance VIP0: maker 0.020% / taker 0.050%, no BNB discount (worst case). Positive funding = longs pay shorts.

$ at Risk
$17.56
Position Size (notional)
$1242
Leverage Needed
1.4x
Total Costs
$1.19
Break-even Move
0.096%
Net R:R after costs
10.86:1

✦ Trade clears all rules — cleared to size.
Risk ≤ 2% 2.0% risked
Leverage ≤ cap 1.4x needed
Blended R:R ≥ 2:1 10.86:1 net
Costs < 10% risk $1.19 costs
Stop defined stop at 0.11229
Liq > stop liq is safe
Take it. Risking $17.56 for a 10.86:1 blended return after all costs. Size $1242 at 1.4x, well inside your 10x cap.
Costs: fees $0.57 + slippage $0.50 (2 bps/side = 0.02%) + funding +$0.12 (you pay) = $1.19 net. You need a 0.096% move just to break even.
Funding drag: paying ~$0.124/8h (≈$0.37/day). The longer you hold, the more it bleeds.

Your calculator inputs auto-save while you work — leave and come back, they're still here. "Pin" saves a named snapshot you can log later; "Log this trade" jumps to the form pre-filled.

Pinned plans — “use” loads into the calculator, “log” jumps to the log form:
SUPERUSDT · Long · @0.1140 · SL 0.11229 · R:R 10.17:1

01 · Position Sizing — the only rule that matters

Risk a fixed % of account per trade — not a fixed dollar, never a fixed leverage. 1–2% of equity at risk per trade. You can be wrong 20 times in a row and still have an account.

position size = (account × risk %) ÷ (entry-to-stop distance %)

Your stop distance and leverage derive from this — you don't pick leverage first. Leverage is the tool to hit the right notional size; it is not a risk dial.

02 · The Leverage Trap — your actual problem

20x isn't "more aggressive" — it's a tighter liquidation noose. At 20x isolated you liquidate on a ~5% adverse move. Crypto wicks 5% before breakfast. On BEAT and BILL, your liquidation price sat closer than the invalidation level — a routine wick killed you before the thesis was even wrong. Size down and lever down until liq sits comfortably beyond invalidation.

03 · Stop Placement

The stop goes where the thesis is invalidated — never a round number or a comfortable dollar amount. On a short: above the confluence resistance / structure high. Then size so that distance equals your 1–2% risk. Stop first, size second. Always that order.

04 · Take Profit — scale out, don't hero

Ladder it. TP1: first structural level — take 30–50% off, move stop to breakeven (now it's a free trade). TP2: major level — take another chunk. Runner: let a small piece ride a trailing stop for the fat tail. This solves both ways traders lose: cutting winners early, and round-tripping winners to zero.

05 · Reward : Risk — nothing below 2:1

At 2:1 you can be right only 40% of the time and still make money. The edge was never your entries — it's whether you survive at sane size long enough to let them play out.

06 · The one-liner

You can have a mediocre entry and a great outcome with proper sizing — and a perfect entry and a blown account with 20x and no stop. You've got the chart-reading. The leverage is the leak. Fix that and the rest compounds.

Rules & Contract

The $1,000 experiment. Read before every trade. The experiment survives a broken rule — it cannot survive an unlogged one.

Pre-trade checklist

Checklist: 0 / 6 acknowledged

Hard Limits — Non-Negotiable

  • Max 2 losing trades per day. Hit two, done for the day. (tilt)
  • Weekly stop at −6%. Drop 6% in a week, pause until next week. (drawdown)
  • Max 2–3 positions open at once. Crypto correlates. (correlation)
  • Stop only moves toward profit, never wider. (sacred)
  • NEVER size up to recover a loss. The exact behavior that blew past accounts. (kryptonite)
  • −30% kill-switch ($700). Stop and audit the log — to diagnose, not quit.
  • No fading an ATH without a confirmed rejection. Wait for the wick + close back inside structure. Shorting the touch is guessing. (confirmation)
  • Entry must be a resting limit, not a chase. If price ran past your level, the trade's gone — let it go. (no FOMO)
  • Every entry has a stop set on the exchange before you look away. No mental stops. (no exceptions)
  • One setup only. If it isn't your defined edge, it's gambling with extra steps. (discipline)

Discipline of Record

Log every trade — thesis on entry, exit on close. Log "Followed plan?" honestly; a broken rule gets logged AS broken. Weekly review: filter plan="no", study the triggers. Same rules after a win as a loss — there's no hot hand. Sample size: 50 trades minimum, 100 ideal, before reading any verdict. The trade count is the finish line, not the balance.

Cloud Sync · Cloudflare

Your journal syncs automatically via your personal Cloudflare Worker — no third-party holds your data, no rate limits, works across all devices.

Worker: sakaantradelab-sync.tranhieu204.workers.dev
Status: Connected — sync fires automatically on every save.

Local Backup

Manual export / import. Works offline. The JSON file is your master record.

Passphrase

Local gate so a casual visitor to your public URL can't read your log.

Danger Zone

Wipe all local trades. If synced, pull from cloud to restore.

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