Glossary
Trade review
A trade review is the practice of replaying past trades against the context you had at entry — the chart, the plan, and your emotions — to judge the quality of the decision, not just the outcome. Reviews done daily or weekly turn trading history into concrete lessons and are widely considered the fastest driver of trader improvement.
The core discipline of a good review is separating decision quality from outcome. A losing trade that followed the plan is a good decision with a bad result; a winning trade that broke the rules is a bad decision that got paid. Reviewing outcomes alone reinforces luck.
An effective weekly review walks every trade with its screenshot and notes, tallies rule violations, checks the equity curve and drawdown, and ends with one written lesson to apply next week. With software that auto-imports trades, this takes minutes, not evenings.
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