https://tradeven.com/articles/en/ Psychology, risk management and performance for retail traders. en https://tradeven.com/articles/en/gestion-des-emotions-trading/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/gestion-des-emotions-trading/ Managing emotions in trading means stopping fear, hope, frustration or euphoria from making the decisions your plan should make. It does not mean feeling nothing. Research on traders shows that intense reactions to both gains and losses go with worse results, and that acting before the emotion works better than hiding it. Your emotions leave measurable traces in your trade history. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT psychologie https://tradeven.com/articles/en/ratio-risque-rendement/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/ratio-risque-rendement/ The risk reward ratio compares the gain you target with the loss you accept: a 40-pip target and a 20-pip stop give a ratio of 2. On its own it creates no edge, because a further target is less likely to be hit. The number that matters is your realized ratio: your average win divided by your average loss. Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT risque https://tradeven.com/articles/en/meilleure-heure-pour-trader/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/meilleure-heure-pour-trader/ The best time to trade forex is usually the London-New York overlap, 2 pm to 6 pm Paris time (8 am to 12 pm New York): activity is high and spreads are tight. But an active market is not a profitable one for you. Your best hour is measured in your own history, in two-hour blocks, on enough trades. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT performance https://tradeven.com/articles/en/plan-de-trading/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/plan-de-trading/ A trading plan is a written document that sets in advance your markets, hours, setups, risk per trade and loss limits. It only works if you follow it and measure it: write each rule in if-then form, check it against your MT4 or MT5 history and calculate what your off-plan trades cost you. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT journal https://tradeven.com/articles/en/meilleur-journal-de-trading/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/meilleur-journal-de-trading/ The best trading journal is the one that imports your history without errors and that you actually open every week. For an MT4 or MT5 trader, compare the import method, P&L net of fees and language first, then price: from $0 with a spreadsheet to about $360 a year for Tradervue Silver. Test each tool on one month of your history before paying. Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT comparatifs https://tradeven.com/articles/en/echec-challenge-prop-firm/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/echec-challenge-prop-firm/ Most traders fail a prop firm challenge on the daily loss limit, rarely on the profit target. In our simulation of 20,000 challenges, a winning strategy passes both phases 78% of the time at 1% risk per trade, but only 16% at 2%, because three losses in one day breach the 5% limit. Test your history against the rules before you pay. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT risque https://tradeven.com/articles/en/esperance-mathematique-trading/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/esperance-mathematique-trading/ Trading expectancy is the average result your strategy makes per trade: (win rate × average win) − (loss rate × average loss), or simply your total net result divided by the number of trades. Positive means your strategy wins in the long run. But over 50 trades, a genuinely winning strategy can show negative expectancy, and the reverse. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT performance https://tradeven.com/articles/en/exporter-historique-mt5/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/exporter-historique-mt5/ To export your MT5 trade history, open the Toolbox (Ctrl+T), History tab, show the Positions view over All History, then right-click, Report, Open XML (Excel) or HTML. Export positions, not deals: a partial close would count as two trades. Also check whether your broker charges commission as one daily or monthly balance line. Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT plateformes https://tradeven.com/articles/en/fomo-trading/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/fomo-trading/ FOMO in trading means entering a move because you're afraid to miss it, not because your plan gives a signal. You mostly pay for it with late entries: with the same stop and target, your reward-to-risk collapses and the win rate you need climbs. It shows in your history (wider stops, planned ratio below 1, unusual symbols) and stops with limit orders set in advance. Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT psychologie https://tradeven.com/articles/en/pourquoi-les-traders-perdent/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/pourquoi-les-traders-perdent/ Retail traders mostly lose for four reasons measured by regulators: average losses bigger than average wins, fees multiplied by the number of trades, positions too large for their capital, and experience that fixes nothing without measurement. Depending on the study, 68% to nearly 90% of retail clients lose money on leveraged products. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT performance https://tradeven.com/articles/en/combien-risquer-par-trade/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/combien-risquer-par-trade/ For most retail traders, risking 0.5% to 1% of capital per trade keeps drawdown under control. In our 200-trade simulation, the drawdown hit in the worst one-in-twenty case is about 20 times the risk per trade: 1% leads to around 20%, 2% to around 37%. Pick the drawdown you accept first, then divide it by 20. Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT risque https://tradeven.com/articles/en/exporter-historique-mt4/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/exporter-historique-mt4/ To export your MT4 trade history, open the Terminal (Ctrl+T), go to the Account History tab, right-click All History, then Save as Detailed Report: you get an HTML file. Excel opens it and saves it as CSV. Before analysing, add commission, swap and profit together: the Profit column alone is not your net result. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT plateformes https://tradeven.com/articles/en/win-rate/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/win-rate/ Your win rate is the share of your closed trades that end in profit. The minimum win rate to be profitable is 1 ÷ (1 + average win to average loss ratio): 50% at a ratio of 1, 33.3% at 2, 25% at 3. Fees push this threshold up by several points, and under about 100 trades your measured win rate is too imprecise to judge. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT performance https://tradeven.com/articles/en/overtrading/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/overtrading/ Overtrading means taking more trades than your plan and your edge justify, out of boredom, FOMO or to win back a loss. It shows in your trade history: results that get worse after the first trades of the day, busy days that lose more than the others, and fees eating a large share of your gross profit. You stop it with a daily trade limit drawn from your own data. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT psychologie https://tradeven.com/articles/en/calcul-taille-de-position/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/calcul-taille-de-position/ Position size is calculated from risk, not from gut feeling: number of lots = amount at risk ÷ (stop distance × value of one point for 1 lot). With €10,000 and 1% risk, you risk €100: on EURUSD with a 25-pip stop and a pip worth €9.09 per lot, that gives 0.44 lot. Always round down. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT risque https://tradeven.com/articles/en/drawdown/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/drawdown/ Drawdown is the drop in your capital between a peak and the lowest point that follows, before a new high. Maximum drawdown is the largest of these drops: (peak − trough) ÷ peak. It can be anticipated: with a 50% win rate, a run of 5 losses in a row shows up in 81% of 100-trade sequences, which is why a limited risk per trade matters. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT risque https://tradeven.com/articles/en/journal-de-trading/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/journal-de-trading/ A trading journal is a record of every trade (asset, direction, size, entry, exit, result) plus the why behind it: setup, whether you followed your plan, and your emotional state. It only pays off when you analyze it: a monthly review by setup, time of day and plan discipline shows which trades make you money and which ones cost you. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT journal https://tradeven.com/articles/en/profit-factor/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/profit-factor/ The profit factor is the ratio between the sum of your gains and the sum of your losses over a period: 1 means you break even, above 1 you make money. It depends on your win rate and on your average win to average loss ratio. It is only meaningful when computed after fees, over enough trades. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT performance https://tradeven.com/articles/en/revenge-trading/ https://tradeven.com/articles/en/revenge-trading/ Revenge trading means opening a new position right after a loss, often bigger and outside your plan, to win back the money you just lost. It shows up in your trade history: trades opened minutes after a loss, position size growing during a losing streak, losses concentrated on a few days. You stop it with rules set in advance: a daily loss limit, a mandatory break and a fixed risk. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT psychologie