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7 guides in Finabase Learn
- Backtesting basics: biases, costs and an honest SPY test How to backtest a trading rule without fooling yourself: look-ahead and survivorship bias, overfitting, costs, out-of-sample tests, and a 32-year SPY example.
- Bull and bear markets: definitions, corrections and history What makes a bull or bear market, the 10% and 20% conventions, how often big declines have happened, and what SPY’s 2022 bear market and 2025 correction looked like.
- Common trading mistakes and the math behind them Overtrading, averaging down, trading without stops, oversizing, revenge trading and ignoring costs: what each mistake costs, worked through with numbers.
- History of stock market crashes: every major US drawdown compared The major US stock market crashes and bear markets from 1929 to 2022 in one table: peak, trough, decline and time to recover, with what caused each and what they share.
- Risk and return: volatility, drawdowns and the equity premium Why higher expected returns come with bigger swings, how to measure risk with volatility and drawdown, and what five years of SPY and AGG data show.
- Trading plan and trading journal: what to write down What a written trading plan contains, which fields a trading journal should record, and how to review results with win rate, average R, profit factor and drawdown.
- What is bitcoin? How it works, its supply cap and its price history How bitcoin’s network, proof of work and 21 million coin schedule work, with halving arithmetic and twelve years of price and drawdown data.
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