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Post-trade review

A structured look back at a closed trade, scoring what you did rather than what you got.

A review that only records the result teaches nothing, because the result is mostly noise. A useful one asks whether the setup qualified, whether size followed the rule, whether entry and exit matched the plan, and what you would repeat.

Do it on winners too. Rule-breaking trades that happen to win are the most dangerous entries in the book, since nothing else in your experience will flag them. Marking one as bad process with a good outcome is how you stop it from teaching you the wrong thing.

Keep the cadence tight and the format fixed: same questions, same scoring, every trade or every session. Fixed formats make patterns visible across months, which is where the real findings are. See behaviour-journal.

Related: behaviour-journal, outcome-bias, deliberate-practice, process-goals

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