Education4 min read
How to Keep a Trading Journal That Teaches You Something
What to record for every trade, a worked journal entry, how to review win rate and expectancy, and the records the IRS expects you to keep anyway.
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Education guides, page 7
Articles 145–168 of 383, newest first. The introduction to this reading list, its topic hubs and the guides other articles cite most are on the first page.
Education articles 145–168
- Education3 min read
Trading Volume: What the Number of Shares Traded Does and Does Not Show
Volume counts how many shares changed hands. How to read volume bars, why every trade has a buyer and a seller, what spikes mean, and what OBV adds.
- Education5 min read
Trees in Graph Theory: Why a Tree with n Vertices Has n − 1 Edges
A tree is a connected graph with no cycles. Its equivalent definitions, why every tree has two leaves and n − 1 edges, and rooted and binary trees.
- Education5 min read
The Unification of Germany: Bismarck’s Wars and 1871
How Prussia unified Germany without Austria: the Zollverein, 1848, Bismarck's three wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870, and the four legal dates of 1871.
- Education5 min read
The Unification of Italy: The Risorgimento in Stages
Italy was unified in steps, not in one year: 1848, 1859, Garibaldi's Thousand in 1860, the 1861 kingdom, Venetia in 1866 and Rome in 1870–71, with dates.
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Valid vs Sound Arguments: Why a Valid Argument Can Still Be Wrong
A valid argument's conclusion must follow from its premises; a sound one is valid with true premises too. How to test validity, with examples of each case.
- Education4 min read
The Wash Sale Rule: When a Loss Cannot Be Claimed Yet
Sell at a loss and buy substantially identical stock within 30 days before or after, and the IRS defers the loss. How the rule works, with worked IRS examples.
- Education4 min read
What Is a Brokerage Account? Types, Protections and Opening One
A brokerage account lets you buy and sell stocks, bonds and funds through a registered firm. Cash vs margin, what opening one asks, fees and protections.
- Education3 min read
What Is a Stock? Ownership, Shares and What You Actually Buy
A stock is a share of ownership in a company. What owning one entitles you to, common vs preferred shares, how investors can gain or lose, and who comes first.
- Education3 min read
What Is a Stock Market Index? How the Big Indexes Are Built
A stock market index tracks a basket of stocks. How price, market-cap and equal weighting work, with worked examples, and what the S&P 500 and Dow measure.
- Education3 min read
What Is an IPO? How a Company Goes Public and What Buyers Should Know
An IPO is a company's first sale of shares to the public. How SEC registration works, who gets shares at the offering price, and the risks for buyers.
- Education4 min read
What Is Discrete Math? The Subjects, Why Computer Science Needs Them, and Where to Start
Discrete math studies separate, countable things: logic, sets, proofs, counting, number theory and graphs. What each topic is and why computing depends on it.
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What Is Paper Trading? What Practice With Virtual Money Teaches, and What It Cannot
Paper trading means simulated trades with virtual money. What it teaches well, the parts of real trading it cannot reproduce, and how to practise usefully.
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Volatility Explained: Standard Deviation, Beta and the VIX
Volatility measures how much prices swing. How standard deviation captures it, what beta compares, what the VIX measures, and why volatility is not loss.
- Education4 min read
World War I Timeline: From Sarajevo to the Armistice
A dated World War I timeline: Sarajevo, the August 1914 declarations, the Marne, Verdun, the Somme, US entry in 1917, Brest-Litovsk and 11 November 1918.
- Education6 min read
Building a Daily History Study Routine
A fifteen-minute daily loop for world history: one new thing, one retrieval session, one sentence written down, and what to change when it stalls.
- Education5 min read
Abstract Reasoning Tests: How the Items Are Built
Abstract reasoning items are engineered objects: a rule, a key and distractors chosen to match specific errors. Knowing the anatomy makes practice sharper.
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Accessibility in Brain Training Apps: Timers, Reveal Speed and Choice
The four dials that decide whether a timed drill is usable: an untimed alternative, adjustable reveal speed, a difficulty floor, and no single-sense dependency.
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Accuracy First or Speed First? Getting the Order Right
Speed and accuracy trade against each other, so training them in the wrong order makes you fast at a method that does not work. Here is the order and the test.
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How Achaemenid Persia Governed: Satraps, Roads and Ration Tablets
Persia's own administrative tablets describe a rationed, sealed, audited state. What the Persepolis archive and the Bisotun inscription actually show.
- Education5 min read
Adding a Long List in Your Head Without Losing Your Place
A list is a memory problem before it is an arithmetic problem. Hold one running total, group to round numbers when you can see the list, and check it twice.
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Analogy Questions: Mapping the Relationship, Not the Words
State the relationship as a full sentence before reading the options. Analogy relationship types, how distractors are built, and worked verbal and number items.
- Education6 min read
Andean Civilizations in Order, From Caral to the Inca
The Inca ruled for under a century. Four thousand years of Andean state-building came first, from Caral and Chavin to Tiwanaku, Wari and the Chimu.
- Education6 min read
Are Online IQ Tests Accurate? What They Can and Cannot Tell You
A free online IQ test fails at the parts that make a score mean anything: controlled conditions, a real norm sample, an administrator and a retest interval.