Trading Skills in June 2025: What You Learned This Month

When you’re building a real trading, the practice of buying and selling financial assets to profit from price movements, not luck or guesswork. Also known as market speculation, it’s not about predicting the future—it’s about managing what you don’t know. In June 2025, the traders who stayed in the game weren’t the ones chasing hot tips. They were the ones who stuck to the basics: knowing how much to risk, when to walk away, and how to read price action without noise.

That month, risk management, the set of rules and habits that protect your capital before you even place a trade. Also known as capital preservation, it’s the only thing that keeps you trading after three losing weeks. was the silent hero. Traders who used a 1% rule—never risking more than 1% of their account on a single trade—survived sudden crypto drops and unexpected Fed comments. Meanwhile, those ignoring stop-losses got wiped out. forex, the global market where currencies are traded, accounting for over $6 trillion daily. Also known as foreign exchange, it’s where most beginners start because it never sleeps. pairs like EUR/USD and USD/JPY moved hard after inflation data came in hotter than expected. But the winners didn’t try to guess the news. They waited for the price to confirm the trend. Same with stocks, ownership shares in public companies traded on exchanges like the NYSE or Nasdaq. Also known as equities, they’re the backbone of long-term trading strategies.. Tech earnings were mixed, but only those who checked volume and support levels made money. And crypto, digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum that trade 24/7 and move on sentiment as much as fundamentals. Also known as cryptocurrencies, they’re volatile, but their patterns repeat if you watch long enough. didn’t crash because of Elon’s tweet. It moved because retail traders flooded in after a key Ethereum upgrade. The smart ones didn’t chase the pump. They watched the pullback.

What you’ll find in this archive isn’t a list of "top trades" or "guaranteed wins." It’s the real stuff—the journal entries, the failed setups, the small adjustments that turned losses into learning. No fluff. No hype. Just what worked, what didn’t, and why. If you’re serious about trading, this is where the real progress happens: not in the wins, but in the details behind them.