sakaantradelab
The $1,000 Experiment · v5.8dLog a Trade
The discipline of logging builds the discipline of trading.
Stop / targets — optional (SL, TP1/TP2/runner + planned R:R)
SL and TP feed your R:R and R-multiple analytics — fill them if you want those numbers. Paste the calculator's blended R:R into Planned R:R; analytics compares it to what you actually achieved.
⚡ Bulk import from Binance CSV — log many trades at once · dupes skipped
Position History CSV = the trades (required). Transaction History CSV = fees/funding (optional, makes PnL wallet-accurate).
Before adding each trade, the importer checks for a match on symbol + close date + close time (HH:MM). If a position with the same close already exists in your log it is silently skipped — so you can upload this week's file on Monday, then upload a file covering the whole week on Friday and only the new trades will be added.
💡 PnL accuracy.
Upload both files together. The Transaction History CSV is the source of truth — the importer sums REALIZED_PNL + COMMISSION + FUNDING_FEE from that file and stores a true net PnL per trade. Position History's "Closing PNL" column is ignored because it can be significantly off (e.g. showed +56.45 when the real net was +26.15). Funding fees charged mid-hold (every 8h) are also captured by time-range matching, not just at close.
⚠ Edge case: if two positions on the same coin close within 90 seconds of each other, the importer assigns each transaction to the closest close. This is handled automatically — no action needed.
Trade History
Click a row to see notes.
| Date | Time | Symbol | Dir | Entry | Exit | P&L | Fees | Setup | Exit reason | Plan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No trades yet — log your first to get started. | |||||||||||
Expectancy & The Experiment
Your 3 strategies — head to head
No core-strategy trades logged yet. Tag each trade with one of your 3 strategies and this becomes your edge-finder — it'll show which one actually earns its place.
Performance by Setup
Which setups actually make money — your edge, quantified.
| Setup | N | Win% | Total P&L | Avg |
|---|
Performance by Exit Reason
How your trades end — and what each ending costs or earns.
| Exit reason | N | Win% | Total P&L | Avg |
|---|
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.
③ Exit Ladder — scale out (click to minimize)
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.
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.
Your calculator inputs auto-save while you work — leave and come back, they're still here. "Pin this plan" (up top) saves a named snapshot you can log later; "Log this trade" jumps to the form pre-filled.
The Distribution Breakdown
A+ · the only setupYour 8-month edge, formalized. For the next 10 trades, this is the only setup you may trade. If a candidate fails the gate, you do not trade — you wait.
- Coin ran ≥80% on a recent run — exhausted bull, not fresh momentum
- Price entered a consolidation / sideways range after the run
- Range shows a topping structure — double top or multiple tops
- Lower highs grinding down inside the range (distribution)
- Price has reached the multi-touch low — 3+ touches within ~3–5%
Why the close + range-high stop: the level is where every stop sits. Price often sweeps through to grab liquidity, then reverses. Entering on the close skips most fake wicks; the range-high stop survives the ones that get through. You used to do one or neither — now you do both.
▤ Trading principles — the six rules · click to expand
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.
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.
AMD Phase Screener
Scans the top USDT perps and reads each into one AMD phase — ACCUMULATION (tight base), MANIPULATION (liquidity swept), DISPLACEMENT (impulsive break — the entry), DISTRIBUTION (late, extended) — with a higher-timeframe bias, liquidity pools, BOS/CHoCH and an OTE zone. Click a row to see the chart, levels and score breakdown. A rules-based watchlist, not signals — confirm with your own eyes.
Timeframe, universe & min-vol need a re-scan · phase, bias, score, R:R & BTC-gate filter live. Manual refresh only — no auto-polling.
accumulation → manipulation → displacement → distribution
| Symbol | Phase | Bias | Score | R:R | Price | 24h % | Vol | Struct | Chart | ★ | Log |
|---|
A rules-based watchlist, not signals. AMD is discretionary and hindsight-friendly — every phase here is a mechanical reading of price, ATR, RSI, swings, sweeps and gaps, and it will produce false positives. Nothing on this screen is financial advice or a trade recommendation. Click any row to expand the chart, levels and score breakdown, then confirm the read with your own eyes before acting. Data: Binance public Futures API, two requests per coin (your timeframe + its higher-timeframe bias), called from your browser — nothing stored server-side. Manual scan only; no background polling.
News & Events
High-impact macro events that move all risk assets — crypto included. This tab exists for risk-avoidance, not opportunity-hunting: the goal is knowing when to stand aside, not finding a reason to click. Times shown in your local timezone.
◷ CONTEXT events are worth knowing but rarely a reason to stand down — note them, don't react to them.
The trap: treating a news event as a signal to enter. News tells you when not to trade. Your setup tells you when to trade. Don't confuse the two.
⚙ Live-data setup (one-time Cloudflare Worker)
- Grab a free token at cryptopanic.com/developers/api/keys
- Cloudflare → Workers & Pages → Create Worker. Paste in the sakaan-news-worker.js file I gave you. Deploy.
- Worker → Settings → Variables → add a Secret named CRYPTOPANIC_TOKEN = your token. Re-deploy.
- Copy your Worker URL and paste it below, then save.
Data note: live calendar = Forex Factory's own weekly feed (cached ~6h via your Worker). Crypto headlines = CryptoPanic, fetched only on button press. The curated schedule below is static — FOMC dates confirmed from the Federal Reserve; CPI/NFP/PCE follow their monthly pattern and are marked approx. If the Worker is down or unset, the curated schedule still works.
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.
Status: Connected — sync fires automatically on every save.
Local Backup
Manual export / import. Works offline. The JSON file is your master record.
"Clear all trades" wipes your log so you can re-import cleanly. Download a snapshot first — this can't be undone.
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.