A research-driven trading lab focused on price action, market microstructure, and systematic strategies.
This space documents strategy design, signal validation, execution logic, and post-trade analysis — with an emphasis on robustness over hype.
Trading Log — Looking for a Signal (Day 1)
Morning — Another Indicator, Same Question Today started the same way many trading days do. Chart open, indicators loaded, signals everywhere. RSI says oversold. EMA says trend is intact. An oscillator says “maybe”. None of them answer the only question that matters: Should my system act right now? At this point, I’m no longer looking for a clever entry. I’m looking for something I can trust enough to automate. ...
Welcome to AlphaScalp
Welcome to AlphaScalp. This space was created to document how ideas move from observation to execution — in markets, in products, and in systems. Rather than chasing noise, AlphaScalp focuses on structure: how trends form, how signals emerge, and how decisions compound over time. The goal is not prediction, but positioning — aligning with asymmetric opportunities before they become obvious. What to Expect Going forward, this blog will cover: Market structure and trend analysis Systematic thinking around trading and execution Product-level perspectives on tools, workflows, and automation Lessons learned from building, testing, and iterating in real environments Some posts will be analytical. Some will be experimental. All will be grounded in first-principles thinking. ...
Why This Blog Exists
This blog did not start cleanly. There were broken builds, wrong assumptions, mismatched tools, and moments where the system looked correct on the surface but failed underneath. Things that should have worked — didn’t. Things that almost worked — revealed why they shouldn’t. And that, in itself, became the point. From Idea to Reality (and Back Again) AlphaScalp began as a simple intention: to create a space where thinking, testing, and execution could be documented honestly. ...
Foundations of Trading Risk Management
Why Risk Management Comes First The primary difference between traders who survive and those who don’t is not strategy selection, but risk control. A strategy can be statistically sound and still fail if risk is mismanaged. In real markets, execution errors, regime shifts, and drawdowns are inevitable. Risk management exists to ensure that no single mistake — or sequence of mistakes — can end the trading process. Core Principles 1. Fixed Risk per Trade (Not Fixed Size) Rather than thinking in terms of position size, risk should be defined as maximum acceptable loss per trade. ...