The Bullmarket blog
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Clear, practical guides to understand markets, read order flow and trade with a method — in English, French, Spanish and German.
Cumulative volume delta (CVD): measuring buying pressure and spotting divergences
Cumulative delta adds up, trade after trade, the aggression of buyers and sellers. How to read it, and why its divergences with price are so useful.
Win rate, risk/reward and expectancy: the 3 numbers that really matter
Winning 70% of your trades guarantees nothing. Here is how risk/reward and expectancy alone decide whether a strategy makes money.
Order types explained: market, limit, stop, stop-limit and OCO
Choosing an order type means choosing between price certainty and execution certainty. A practical guide to each order, with its traps.
Footprint charts: reading order flow inside every candle
Bid × ask, delta, imbalances, absorption: a complete guide to what a footprint chart shows and how to use it without drowning in numbers.
Position sizing: the 1% rule explained with worked examples
How much should you buy? The answer depends on your stop-loss, not your conviction. Step-by-step method, drawdown table and common mistakes.
Support and resistance: how to draw the levels that really matter
Support is not a magic line but a zone where orders are waiting. A method to draw them, rank them and trade them without falling for false breakouts.
Trading journal and paper trading: the method to genuinely improve
Why traders who improve measure everything. What to record, which statistics to track, and how to use a simulator without fooling yourself.
Moving averages: SMA or EMA, which periods and how to use them
The moving average is the most widely used indicator in the world. SMA vs EMA, classic periods, crossovers and the uses that actually work.
How to read an order book (DOM): liquidity, walls, spoofing and icebergs
The order book shows traders’ intentions before they are executed. How to read it, what to trust and what to be wary of.
RSI and MACD: using oscillators without falling into their traps
“RSI above 70, time to sell” is the rule that loses the most money. What RSI and MACD really measure, and how to use them intelligently.
Bull market vs bear market: understanding stock and crypto cycles
Where the bull and the bear come from, how to recognise each market phase, and what the history of the S&P 500 and Bitcoin teaches us about cycles.
Spread, slippage and liquidity: the hidden costs of trading
Commission is only the visible part of costs. The bid-ask spread and slippage can cost much more. How to measure and reduce them.
Volume profile: POC, value area and VWAP to find the levels that matter
Where did the market actually trade? Volume profile answers in one picture. Definitions, calculations and practical ways to use it.
Building a trading plan in 7 steps (with a template)
A trading plan turns emotional decisions into written rules. The 7 essential sections, a complete example and how to evolve it over time.
Where to place your stop-loss and take-profit: 5 practical methods
Too tight and you get stopped out, too wide and it gets expensive. Structure, volatility (ATR), time, liquidity: how to place stops and targets with logic.
Trading psychology: 6 costly biases (and how to neutralise them)
Loss aversion, revenge trading, overconfidence… The most common cognitive biases among traders, and simple rules to protect yourself.
Leverage and liquidation: understand it before you multiply it
Leverage does not multiply your chances, it multiplies the impact of every price move. Margin, liquidation price, funding costs: everything you need to know.
Stocks or crypto: what really changes for a trader
Trading hours, volatility, fees, regulation, market data: the practical differences between trading stocks and trading cryptocurrencies.