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Short reads on writing your own trading rules and keeping them.
How to Write a Strategy
A strategy is a written contract with your future self. It turns a fuzzy "I think this setup works" into a checklist precise enough that another trader could execute it from your notes alone. Most traders skip this step and then wonder why their results never compound.
7 min readFinding Your A++ Setup
A++ in Astrella is a grade, not a name you give a setup beforehand: it is the top band of the score every logged trade gets, shown on Add Trade as its Trade grade. Your A++ setup is the one whose rules show the best win-rate lift in your own logged trades. This article is about finding that setup, and about writing it up so the trades you log against it can earn the top grade honestly.
6 min readBuilding Unbreakable Discipline
Discipline is not a personality trait. It is a system of small, repeatable rituals that make the right action easier than the wrong one. Traders who appear "disciplined" have engineered their environment so willpower is rarely the bottleneck.
7 min readPosition Sizing: When Full-Size Is Wrong
Most traders think about sizing as a single number — "what size should I take?" The better question is "what size is appropriate given my confidence, my open heat, and my correlation exposure right now?" Full-size is correct on a narrow subset of trades and disastrous on the rest.
8 min readHow to Use Astrella
Astrella scores how well you follow your own rules. This guide walks through the loop that makes that score useful: write a strategy, log trades with its rules ticked, see which rules pay, and rework the strategy.
5 min readUnderstanding Credits and Astra AI
Astra AI is the part of Astrella that uses AI to read a setup or a chart for you, and its reads use credits: money you add to your account in advance to pay for AI reads. This article covers which features use credits, how a read is charged, and what still works when you have none.
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