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    <title>TradeLoop — From the workshop</title>
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      <title>Position sizing — what 10 blown FundingPips accounts taught me.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Ten blown funded accounts, five canonical sizing frameworks, one realisation that broke the loop: the position-sizing problem isn't a position-sizing problem. The framework that finally held — and what I'd tell account-zero me.]]></description>
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      <category>Position sizing</category>
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      <title>The math of revenge sizing — why the &apos;just one more to make it back&apos; trade is rarely the same trade.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The math the trader runs in their head and the math the market runs on the trade actually placed are two different things. A worked walk through the variance, the selection drift, and the 100-session expectation that explain why doubling-up after a loss compounds against you.]]></description>
      <category>Behavioural</category>
      <category>Position sizing</category>
      <category>Quant</category>
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      <title>Daily loss limits are duct tape. Here&apos;s what they don&apos;t catch.</title>
      <link>https://app.tradeloop.trade/blog/why-daily-loss-limits-fail</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[By the time the daily loss limit fires, the day is already lost. The limit is a record of the failure, not a prevention of it. What the limit catches, where it's structurally late, and the upstream signatures that close the timing gap.]]></description>
      <category>Behavioural</category>
      <category>Risk</category>
      <category>Prop firm</category>
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      <title>The 7 prop-firm rules that catch good traders, ranked by how often they actually fire.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Daily loss limit, trailing drawdown, consistency, minimum days, news, position cap, weekend rule. What each rule is really watching for across FundingPips, MFFU, Apex, Topstep, FTMO — and the behavioural signature underneath each one.]]></description>
      <category>Prop firm</category>
      <category>Risk</category>
      <category>Behavioural</category>
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      <title>9 of 10. The SEBI study every Indian retail F&amp;O trader should read in full.</title>
      <link>https://app.tradeloop.trade/blog/sebi-90-percent-loss-study-breakdown</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[SEBI's January 2023 study put '9 of 10 retail traders lose money' into every disclaimer in India. Few have read past the abstract. A clean walk through the methodology, the buried findings, and what the data implies for any trader inside the 89%.]]></description>
      <category>India</category>
      <category>SEBI</category>
      <category>Behavioural</category>
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      <title>Counterfactual: my cumulative drawdown curve, with revenge trades surgically removed.</title>
      <link>https://app.tradeloop.trade/blog/counterfactual-walkthrough-14k-loss</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The actual P&L curve across 11 blown FundingPips evaluation accounts (Oct 2025 – May 2026; $5K and $10K account sizes, ~$3,000-$5,000 cumulative simulated drawdown after the 2026-05-21 editor's correction on /wall), then re-simulated with the revenge-cluster trades excised. Methodology, caveats, and what the counterfactual actually shows. The math is the same one published at /methodology.]]></description>
      <category>Founder story</category>
      <category>Counterfactual</category>
      <category>Methodology</category>
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      <title>TradeZella vs Tradervue vs TradeLoop: an honest review by someone who used all three.</title>
      <link>https://app.tradeloop.trade/blog/how-tradezella-tradervue-tradeloop-actually-differ</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I paid for TradeZella, Tradervue, and TraderSync at various points across 2024 and 2025. I have the credit-card statements. Specific monthly bills, specific feature shortcomings, specific fits — and where TradeLoop honestly doesn't fit best.]]></description>
      <category>Comparison</category>
      <category>Honest review</category>
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      <title>The post-loss revenge window: replicating the founder&apos;s tilt detection on your own MT5 account.</title>
      <link>https://app.tradeloop.trade/blog/17-minute-revenge-window-mt5-replication</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A working MQL5 EA sketch, the math, the data points to log, and the threshold rationale. Catches one signature (revenge_size_escalation) on MT5 without TradeLoop. Engineer-trader recipe for the most common prop-firm failure mode.]]></description>
      <category>MT5</category>
      <category>Tilt</category>
      <category>Tactical</category>
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      <title>How to import your Zerodha Kite trades into a journal without paying for ChartLog.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Three methods for journalling Zerodha Kite trades without a paid subscription — Console Tax P&L CSV, Kite Connect API + script, and TradeLoop's free tier. Effort and freshness trade-offs for each, plus the upgrade case where free stops being enough.]]></description>
      <category>India</category>
      <category>Zerodha</category>
      <category>Tactical</category>
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      <title>Every FundingPips rule, in plain English. Updated for the 2026 challenge changes.</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Daily loss, max drawdown denominator, consistency rule, profit target, news window, weekend hold. The full FundingPips 2026 rule set with the 2026 changes flagged, written by a founder who tested most of them by failing them.]]></description>
      <category>Prop firm</category>
      <category>FundingPips</category>
      <category>Rules</category>
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      <title>Anatomy of an Apex evaluation reset — 11 trades, $5,640 gone, 19 minutes.</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Trade-by-trade autopsy of one Apex $50k evaluation that died in 19 minutes after a clean profit start. Three different detector signatures fired in 13 minutes — what each was catching, and what the counterfactual sequence would have looked like.]]></description>
      <category>Prop firm</category>
      <category>Apex</category>
      <category>Loss autopsy</category>
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      <title>I blew 10 prop firm accounts at FundingPips. So I built the tool that would have stopped me.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Eleven FundingPips eval accounts blown between October 2025 and May 2026. The pattern was identical: a losing trade, then a 14-minute personal revenge window. Here's the data, and what I built to stop it.]]></description>
      <category>Founder story</category>
      <category>Prop firm</category>
      <category>Behavioural</category>
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