Retired Blog
Retired Blog
Notes on calm software, building Retired Today, and using simple tools to live a simpler life.
How much edge a trading strategy actually needs to clear costs. Real Phemex fees, realistic slippage, and the math that decides which strategies survive the round trip.
Five questions that reliably catch a FOMO entry before the order goes in. The neuroscience, the warning signs, and a quick yes-no flow that scores your trade.
A walk through the layers between a crypto balance and the fiat number your tracker shows. Stablecoin depegs, fiat reference rates, and the small deviations that compound.
Why the same chart shows you exactly what you want to see — and a practical framework for forcing the disconfirming view before you take the trade.
A live histogram of where BTC actually spent its time over the last 12 hours — round numbers, recent extremes, and the levels price kept returning to.
The research-backed recovery window after a trading loss — why "I feel fine" is unreliable for about an hour, and how long to wait before the next trade.
The five cognitive biases — loss aversion, anchoring, confirmation, recency, overconfidence — that cause most trading losses, with a self-assessment.
Why BTC and ETH track each other most of the time, when they diverge, and a live dual-line chart of the last 12 hours rebased to zero so you can read it at a glance.
What the London trading session is, why 3am–9am ET moves crypto more than any other window, and a live chart of today's BTC path in that window.