How to Trade Breakouts Without Getting Faked Out

Price Action S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 22, 2026 · 8 min read Price Action Breakouts Breakouts are one of the most popular setups in trading and one of the most punishing for beginners. The pattern is seductive: price has been stuck under a level, it finally pops above, you buy […]
Tastytrade vs thinkorswim for Options Trading 2026

Trading Tools S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 21, 2026 · 8 min read Brokers Platforms Tastytrade and thinkorswim are two of the most popular platforms for options traders, and they attract very different people for good reasons. Both are excellent. Neither is universally ‘better.’ The right one depends on how you […]
Drawdowns Explained: How to Survive Losing Streaks Without Blowing Up

Trading Education S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 20, 2026 · 8 min read Risk Management Psychology Every trader hits losing streaks. Even a genuinely profitable strategy goes through stretches where the losses pile up — that’s not a malfunction, it’s statistics. What separates traders who survive from those who quit (or […]
The 5 Risk Management Rules Every New Trader Needs

Risk Management S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 18, 2026 · 9 min read Risk Survival There’s a brutal statistic that hangs over retail trading: most new traders lose money and quit. Dig into why, and it’s almost never because they couldn’t find a winning strategy. It’s because they didn’t survive long […]
How to Write a Trading Plan (Free Template Inside)

Trading Education S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 17, 2026 · 8 min read Process Plan Most traders don’t have a trading plan. They have a vague intention and a brokerage account, and they call the result ‘discretionary trading.’ It isn’t. It’s gambling with extra steps. A trading plan is the document […]
Day Trading vs Swing Trading Canada — Which Is Better?

Trading Education S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 16, 2026 · 9 min read Day Trading Swing ‘Should I day trade or swing trade?’ is one of the most common questions new Canadian traders ask, and most answers online are useless because they pretend one is universally better. Neither is. They’re different […]
Best Technical Analysis Indicators for Beginners 2026

Open any charting platform and you’ll find dozens of indicators. The best traders use fewer, not more. Learn the four essential indicators that actually earn their place on a beginner’s chart: moving averages for trend, RSI for momentum, volume for conviction, and VWAP for intraday reference.
How to Screen Stocks for Options Trading (Step-by-Step)

Options Trading S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 14, 2026 · 8 min read Options Screening There are thousands of optionable stocks, and most of them are terrible to trade options on. Wide spreads, thin volume, unpredictable behavior — trading options on the wrong underlying is a tax you pay on every […]
How to Journal Your Trades (And What to Actually Track)

Trading Education S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 13, 2026 · 7 min read Trading Psychology Process Most traders can’t tell you why they’re losing because they have no record of what they did. They remember the big winners and the painful losers and forget the dozens of trades in between — […]
Position Sizing: The Most Underrated Skill in Trading

Risk Management S Shahryar Rahmani Founder, Meta Trading Club · July 11, 2026 · 9 min read Risk Sizing Ask a struggling trader what they’re working on and they’ll say entries, indicators, setups. Ask a consistent trader what kept them in the game long enough to get good and they’ll say one thing: position sizing. […]