Methodology
How this site is built
Sources, review process, and the reasoning behind how the 27 trading models are presented.
Source material
Each of the 27 trading-model profiles is built from that model's own documented rules, named concepts, and direct quotes — sourced from the actual published material, not from general knowledge or paraphrase-of-a-paraphrase. A profile is only published once its rules, concepts, and lessons trace back to a real passage in the source text. Every profile has its own quiz except the 7 most recently added value-investing/growth/macro models — those quizzes are still in progress.
Why real traders' names aren't used
Every profile is aliased as "Trading Model 01" through "Trading Model 20" rather than the real author's name. Most of the people whose documented rules these profiles draw from are real, living individuals who run their own paid trading-education businesses — publishing content under their names, even when accurately sourced, could read as trading on their reputation or implying their endorsement of this site. Aliasing removes that ambiguity. The real book behind each profile can still be found via the "explore this style further" link on that profile page.
No invented facts or statistics
Quotes, rules, and biographical detail are checked against the source text before publish. Numbers shown in the strategy-expectancy calculator for the original technical/psychology models come from a real, separately-conducted trade-history analysis — they are not fabricated to make every model look equally strong. Models without an equivalent real dataset (the newer value-investing and macro-fundamentals additions) are deliberately excluded from that calculator's win-rate/reward:risk cards rather than filled in with invented numbers.
The trade simulator scores behavior, not prediction
The simulator's 20 scenarios use synthetic, seeded price paths — not real market data, and not a forecast of any real security. Scoring is deliberately built around behavior (did you honor a stop, size consistently, cut a loser early, let a winner run, revenge-trade after a loss) rather than whether a decision happened to be "right," since markets are two-sided and grading correctness would imply a findable edge this site doesn't claim to have. The historic-episode drills inside the simulator use real, dated, sourced price points from public-domain or licensed source material, rendered through the same synthetic chart engine — narrated in original prose, not reproduced text from the source book.
What this site does NOT do
- No stock tips, signals, or personalized recommendations. Every profile teaches a documented methodology, never "here's what to do with your position now."
- No live or real-time market data anywhere on the site — the simulator and historic drills are both synthetic/anchored, never a real-time feed.
- No claims we can't substantiate. Stats shown on the site are checked against the actual underlying data before publish.
Last reviewed: 2026-07-09. We update this page whenever the sourcing or review process changes.