Stop Loss Division
Trading psychology, risk, and what the numbers say once you stop guessing.
Everything we learn from building a journal that watches your body as well as your balance.
26 August 2026
Traders who feel their heartbeat perform better. Most of us can't.
A study on a London trading floor found that traders who could better perceive their own heartbeat were more profitable and stayed in the market longer. SLD doesn't teach you to feel your heartbeat. It shows you the data so you can see what your body was doing when you made that trade.
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19 August 2026
74 to 89 percent of CFD accounts lose money. Here's what that number doesn't tell you.
ESMA, the European regulator, found that 74 to 89 percent of retail CFD accounts lose money (2018). The number hasn't improved. The tools have. So it's not the tools. It's the state you're in when you use them.
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12 August 2026
Why most trading journals are testimony, not evidence
'Why I took the trade' is a judgment made afterwards by the same brain that wanted the trade. Your heart rate three minutes before you clicked is evidence. SLD logs both.
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11 August 2026
Why saving knowledge is crazy important.
Why saving knowledge is crazy important. few
Read5 August 2026
The era of $60/month trading journals is over (if you know how to use Claude)
If you can prompt Claude, there's zero reason to keep paying rent to SaaS journals. Build your own for free, or use SLD if you want biometrics without the setup.
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