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Short, honest guides on trading, risk and public validation. No promises, just math.
What is swing trading (and why you don't need to watch the screen all day)
If you've tried "trading" before and quit because it felt like a second job, the problem may not have been your discipline. It may have been the wrong time horizon.
Read articlePaper trading: why every serious system starts with fake money
"If your system is so good, why is it still trading with pretend money?"
Read articleHow to evaluate a track record (and the 5 ways people fool you with one)
Every strategy seller has a chart that goes up. Your job, before trusting anyone with a cent, is to figure out what was cut out of the chart.
Read articleRisk-on or defensive? What a market 'regime' is and why it changes everything
There are days when "buying the dip" works, and months when it's the recipe for losing everything slowly. The difference has a name: market regime.
Read articleDrawdown: the number that matters more than return
Two systems returned 30% over the past year. The first was never down more than 6%. The second went through a 45% decline before recovering. Same result? Only on paper.
Read articleWhat a trading AI is (and what it CANNOT do)
"AI that trades" has become the favorite label of half the schemes on the internet. It's worth separating what the technology actually does from what the marketing promises.
Read articleBYOB: why you should never hand your funds to a bot
There is a red line separating legitimate automation services from schemes on a countdown: where your money lives.
Read articleKill switch, stops and caps: anatomy of automated risk control
The wrong question about automation: "how much can it make?". The right question: "what stops it from ruining me on a bad day?" An automated execution system worthy of the name...
Read articleWhat is a signal worth? Win rate, profit factor and honest math
"We win 85% of our trades!" is the favorite line of people hoping you can't do math. Let's do the math.
Read articleWhy we publish the red days (the economics of trust)
Every day, at market close, we publish the result of Kamla's brain. On green days it's easy. The decision that defines us is publishing on the red ones.
Read articleAlpaca in 10 minutes: create your practice account and connect your keys
Alpaca is a US broker with a rare trait: it was built to be connected to software (API-first) and offers free practice accounts with real market data. That's why Kamla works wit...
Read articleFrom paper to live: the responsible path (and where we are on it)
The most frequent question we get: "when will Kamla trade real money?" The short answer: when the public record justifies it, and not a day sooner. This article explains the pat...
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