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PnL App Editorial Team
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Areas of coverage
- NewsMarket-moving news and trading headlines.
- EducationGuides and tutorials for traders at every level.
- Trading PsychologyMindset, discipline, and behavioral insights for traders.
- GlossaryDefinitions of trading and financial terms.
- ResearchIn-depth analysis and data-driven research.
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- We separate reporting and education from advice. Nothing published here tells you what to trade.
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Articles by the PnL App Editorial Team
Tools
The 10 Best Trading and Trading Journal Apps in 2026
A real, no-fluff rundown of the apps traders actually use to place trades, track performance, and figure out why they keep losing money in the same way.
Trading Psychology
10 Trading Psychology Books Worth Actually Reading
Skip the hundred generic 'top trading books' lists. These ten are the ones that actually changed how experienced traders think about their own behavior.
Tools
10 Best Trading Research Tools in 2026
Compare ten of the best trading research tools for charts, scanners, economic data, company filings, news, and trade review so you can build a focused workflow.
Tools
10 Best Trading Risk Management Tools in 2026
The best trading risk management tools help you size positions, set a defined loss, avoid impulsive trades, and review whether your process is working. Here are ten worth using.
Trading Psychology
The Complete Guide to Trading Psychology
Everything that actually matters about why traders lose money on setups that should have worked, and what to do about each specific failure mode.
Trading Psychology
12 Signs You're an Emotional Trader (And What to Do About Each One)
A blunt checklist for spotting emotional trading in your own behavior, with a specific fix for each pattern rather than generic advice to 'stay calm.'
Trading Psychology
7 Trading Psychology Myths That Are Quietly Wrecking Your Account
Some trading advice sounds right and does real damage anyway. Here are seven of the most repeated myths about trading psychology, and what tends to be true instead.
education
Behavioral Finance: Biases, Emotions and Financial Behavior
A clear, practical exploration of behavioral finance, its key biases, and how emotions influence everyday investing decisions.
finance education
Bitcoin ETFs see record investor flight as the cryptocurrency hits lowest levels since 2024
Primary keyword: Bitcoin ETFs record investor flight. Analyzes outflows from U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs and the context behind shrinking levels since 2024.
Finance
Bitcoin hoarder Strategy unveils $2bn buyback as share price tumbles
Analysis of Strategy's $2bn buyback plan and its implications for bitcoin holdings, corporate funding strategies, and investor expectations.
finance
Bitcoin nears the $58,000 floor that has marked every cycle bottom since 2015
Bitcoin approaches a long-standing power-law support near $58,000, signaling a potential accumulation zone but with no immediate catalyst for a bounce.
Macro
Australia's Steady June Unemployment Signals Resilient Job Market
Australia's unemployment rate is expected to hold steady in June, a reading that could shift market bets on the next RBA rate move.
Macro
Euro Advances Ahead of ECB Policy Decision
Analysis of how the euro may move as traders brace for the ECB policy decision, with a focus on EURUSD dynamics and what traders should monitor next.
Trading Psychology
How a Trading Plan Reduces Emotional Decision-Making
A trading plan works less by making you smarter and more by moving decisions out of the moment where emotion has the most influence over them.
Economic Indicators
Fed's Favorite Inflation Tracker Is Getting an Overhaul
Overview of an inflation tracker overhaul and its implications for traders and investors, focusing on understanding what changes mean for market readings and decision making.
Commodities
WTI Oil Climbs Above $87 as Middle East Tensions Threaten Key Chokepoints
WTI crude climbed past $87 as escalating Middle East tensions raised the risk of disruption to key oil transport chokepoints.
Behavioral Research
Why Traders Underestimate How Often They Break Their Own Rules
Ask a trader how often they follow their rules and most describe a much more disciplined pattern than their actual trade records show. The gap itself is worth understanding.
Prop Trading
The Psychology of Trading a Funded Account
Trading someone else's capital under a set of rules changes the psychology of every decision, even when the strategy is identical to trading your own account.
Trading Mindset
Trading Burnout: Signs You Need to Step Away From the Screen
Burnout does not always look like exhaustion. In trading it often looks like forcing trades, checking price constantly, and losing the patience a strategy actually requires.
Behavioral Research
The Behavioral Gap Between Demo Trading and Live Trading
Many traders perform noticeably differently on a demo account than on a live one, even with the same strategy. The gap is behavioral, not technical.
Behavioral Research
Patterns in Retail Trader Behavior After a Losing Streak
How does position sizing and trade frequency typically shift after a string of losses? A look at the behavioral pattern, with an illustrative example of how it tends to show up.
Behavioral Finance
The Sunk Cost Fallacy and Why Traders Hold Losers Too Long
The money already lost on a trade is gone regardless of what happens next, but it still shapes decisions it should have no effect on. Here is how that plays out.
Discipline
How to Recover From a Trading Slump
A slump usually is not one bad decision, it is a string of small ones compounding. Getting out of it starts with reducing size, not searching for a new strategy.
Trading Mindset
Is Trading Gambling? How to Tell the Difference
Trading and gambling can look identical from the outside. The real difference is not the activity itself, it is whether there is a repeatable edge and controlled risk behind it.
Emotional Trading
Fear and Greed: The Two Emotions That Drive Every Trade
Fear and greed do not just show up around headline market extremes, they shape entries, exits, and position sizing in every single trade.
Discipline
Why You Keep Breaking Your Own Trading Rules
Almost every trader has a rule they know is right and still break. The reason is rarely a lack of knowledge, it is what happens under pressure.
Discipline
Revenge Trading: Why the Next Trade Feels Urgent
After a painful loss, the urge to immediately win it back is one of the most predictable and most costly patterns in trading psychology.
Emotional Trading
How to Control Your Emotions While Trading
You cannot delete emotion from trading, but you can build a process that keeps it from making your decisions. Here is what that actually looks like.
Discipline
What Is Trading Discipline?
Trading discipline is following your own rules on the trades where it is hardest to, not just on the easy ones. It is a behavior you can measure, not just a personality trait.
Risk Management
What Is Drawdown?
Drawdown measures the decline from a portfolio's peak value to its lowest point before a new peak is reached, and it is one of the clearest ways to judge risk.
Decision Making
What Is Analysis Paralysis?
Analysis paralysis is overanalyzing a trade to the point of missing the entry entirely. More indicators and more confirmation do not always mean a better decision.
Behavioral Finance
What Is Confirmation Bias in Trading?
Confirmation bias is the tendency to notice information that supports a trade you already want to take, while discounting signals that argue against it.
Behavioral Finance
What Is Loss Aversion?
Loss aversion is the tendency to feel a loss more intensely than an equivalent gain. In trading, it is a major reason traders hold losers too long and cut winners too early.
Discipline
What Is Revenge Trading?
Revenge trading is entering a new trade to win back a loss, rather than because a real setup appeared. It is one of the most common ways a small loss becomes a large one.
Emotional Trading
What Is FOMO in Trading?
FOMO is the fear of missing out on a move that is already underway. It pushes traders into chasing price instead of waiting for their own setup.
Discipline
What Is Trading Tilt?
Tilt is the state of trading from frustration or ego instead of a plan, usually right after a loss. Here is how to recognize it before it costs you more.
Self-Awareness
Fix Your Psychology: PnL App Review
A blunt review of the PnL App: a fast, simple trading journal built to expose the behavioral patterns that spreadsheets make too tedious to track.
Discipline
The Market Doesn't Reward Excitement. It Rewards Boring Discipline.
The most profitable traders spend most of their time doing nothing. Here is why boring discipline, not excitement, is what actually protects a trading account.
Trading Journal
The One Tool That Changed How I Trade (It's Not a Strategy)
Backtesting new strategies rarely fixes a losing account. Here is why tracking real trade data with the PnL App exposed the pattern a new indicator never could.
Accountability
The Trader Who Blamed the Whales (Stop Blaming the Market)
A trader who blamed brokers, algorithms, and market makers for every loss finally used the PnL App to track his own data, and found the real pattern was his own behavior.
Market Structure
When War Starts, the Oil Market Is Already Moving
Markets do not wait for a headline to confirm a war before they move. Here is why oil, gold, and currencies often react to geopolitical expectations first.
Accountability
Why I Started Using the PnL App (And Stopped Blaming the Market)
After years of blaming the market for his losses, one trader started logging every trade in the PnL App and found the same behavioral mistakes repeating on a loop.
Trading Mistakes
Why You're Losing: The #1 Trading Mistake You're Making
Most losing trades are not caused by a bad strategy. They are caused by never tracking your own behavior. Here is how a trading journal turns guessing into data.
