Panic of 1907: the crash one banker stopped from his library
The Panic of 1907 began with a failed copper corner on 16 October and ended in Morgan's library on 4 November. What a trading journal would have shown.
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Socius News
Socius News is the editorial desk of Socius Trades. It reads the week ahead, revisits three centuries of market history, compares trading tools on the facts and explains the numbers behind a trader's results. Every article is sourced, dated and reviewed before publication. No signals, no forecasts, no promises.
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Week ahead, 12 – 16 October 2026: US CPI, retail sales and a Bangkok fireside chat
Week ahead forex calendar, 12–16 October 2026: US CPI at a 3.6% consensus Wednesday, retail sales and PPI Thursday, Beige Book, Chair Warsh in Bangkok.
Read the articleDrawdown meaning in trading: the number that decides whether you survive
Drawdown trading meaning, with the arithmetic behind it: a -20% drawdown needs +25% to recover, -50% needs +100%. What your own trade history shows.
Read the articleSocius Trades vs Edgewonk: the Edgewonk alternative that only reads
An Edgewonk alternative that only reads your broker. Socius Trades vs Edgewonk: prices dated 29 September 2026, import, analytics, who each is for.
Read the articleWeek ahead, 5 – 9 October 2026: FOMC minutes after a 29,000 payroll
Week ahead forex calendar, 5–9 October 2026: ISM services Monday, FOMC minutes Wednesday, ECB account and China reopening Thursday, after a 29,000 payroll.
Read the articleYou cut your winners: the disposition effect in trading
Disposition effect trading, measured on 10,000 accounts: why you sell winners 50 percent faster than losers, and what your own trade log would show.
Read the articlePanic of 1873: the crash that started in Vienna and shut Wall Street for ten days
The Panic of 1873 began in Vienna on 9 May, reached New York on 18 September and opened a 65-month contraction. What a trading journal would have shown.
Read the articleWeek ahead, 28 September – 2 October 2026: payrolls, PCE and a closed Shanghai
Week ahead forex calendar, 28 September–2 October 2026: RBA Tuesday, US PCE Wednesday, ISM Thursday, euro area flash HICP and September payrolls Friday.
Read the articleBest trading journal 2026: seven journals, one honest price table
Best trading journal 2026: seven journals compared on dated prices, MT4, MT5 and cTrader import, and what each one lets you see.
Read the article1720: the Mississippi Bubble, when John Law printed the buyer
Mississippi Bubble 1720: shares rose from 500 to 10,000 livres, then 2.7 billion livres of notes chased them down. What a journal would have shown.
Read the articleWeek ahead, 21 – 25 September 2026: flash PMIs, the SNB and a three-day Tokyo holiday
Week ahead forex calendar, 21–25 September 2026: flash PMIs Wednesday, SNB decision Thursday 07:30 UTC, Tokyo closed Mon–Wed after the BoJ hike.
Read the articleBest trading hours: your best hour isn't the one you think
Best trading hours are not the busiest hours. The London New York overlap moves the market; your journal shows which hour moves your expectancy in R.
Read the articleBlack Monday 1987: the day portfolio insurance sold into its own crash
Black Monday 1987: the Dow fell 22.6% in one session while $60 to $90 billion of portfolio insurance sold into the fall. What a journal would have shown.
Read the articleWeek ahead, 14 – 18 September 2026: three central banks in one forex week
Week ahead forex calendar, 14–18 September 2026: FOMC Wednesday 18:00 UTC, Bank of England Thursday 11:00 UTC, Bank of Japan Friday, with previous prints.
Read the articleWin rate is a vanity metric: expectancy is the number that matters
A 1% win rate can be profitable and a 90% win rate can lose. Expectancy, R-multiples and two brokerage studies show which number your account tracks.
Read the article1929: what the crash taught Wall Street about leverage
Buyers put down 10% in 1929. The Dow fell 13% in a day. How margin turned a bad week into an 89% drawdown, and what Regulation T changed afterwards.
Read the articleWeek ahead, 7 – 11 September 2026: ECB decision and US CPI in one forex week
Week ahead forex calendar for 7–11 September 2026: Labor Day Monday, ECB decision Thursday 12:15 UTC, US CPI Friday 12:30 UTC, with previous prints.
Read the articleSocius Trades vs Tradezella: the Tradezella alternative that reads you, not the market
A Tradezella alternative that only reads your broker. Socius Trades vs Tradezella: prices dated 27 August 2026, broker sync, analytics, who each is for.
Read the articleR-multiples: the unit your P&L is missing
Two trades, both plus 400 euros, one great and one poor. R-multiples put every result in units of the risk you took, and show what a currency column hides.
Read the articleSocius Trades vs ProRealTime: the platform trades, the journal reads
ProRealTime charts, backtests and sends orders. Socius Trades reads what you executed. Features and prices from both official pages, 26 August 2026.
Read the articleWeek ahead: 31 August – 4 September 2026: jobs week after Jackson Hole
US payrolls on Friday, euro area flash inflation on Tuesday, the Beige Book on Wednesday. The calendar, the previous prints and what it means for your sessions.
Read the articleSocius Trades vs TradingView: a chart is not a journal
Is Socius Trades a TradingView alternative? No. One reads the market, the other reads you. Features, prices and the overlap, compared on the official pricing pages.
Read the article1720: the South Sea Bubble, the first crash anyone could trade
From £128 to £1,050 and back to £124 in twelve months. What the South Sea Bubble of 1720 did to Britain, to Isaac Newton, and what a trading journal would have shown.
Read the articleRevenge trading has a signature
Revenge trading is not a character flaw. It is a measurable pattern: five signatures in your trade history, and what thirty years of research on loss chasing says about it.
Read the articleSee it on your own trades
Your broker history already knows the answer.
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