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How to Run a Weekly Trading Review
Turn a week of trades into one evidence-backed priority instead of a long list of vague resolutions.Start by validating the record
Confirm that closed trades have correct fills, fees, quantities, risk, and final results. Exclude open, planned, or cancelled trades from performance conclusions. A sophisticated metric cannot repair inconsistent inputs.
Check that strategy and context labels use the same definitions across the week.
Separate results from behaviour
Review net result, R, expectancy, and drawdown beside checklist adherence and recorded mistakes. Ask whether profits came from repeatable decisions and whether losses were normal variance or preventable execution errors.
Choose one next-week focus
Count recurring rule misses and, where possible, estimate their cost. Select one behaviour that is specific and observable—for example, waiting for a defined confirmation—not a broad instruction such as “be disciplined.”
Keep the focus editable. At the next review, evaluate whether the behaviour changed before replacing it.
Move from five trades to one useful change
A week contains three wins, two losses, and repeated early entries before confirmation.
- Validate fills, quantities, fees, status, and risk for all five trades.
- Separate P&L from adherence: count how often confirmation was missing regardless of outcome.
- Estimate the effect of early entries without pretending five trades prove causation.
- Set one next-week focus: no entry until the defined confirmation is recorded.
The review ends with a behaviour that is observable next week, while the performance numbers remain evidence rather than a verdict.
Put the idea into your process
- Starting with total P&L before checking data quality.
- Changing several rules at once.
- Choosing a vague goal such as ‘be more disciplined.’
- Ignoring profitable rule breaks because they helped the week.
- Reconcile every closed trade before reading statistics.
- Review results, adherence, and context in separate passes.
- Count the most frequent and most costly repeatable error.
- Choose one measurable focus and review it the following week.
Prompts to use in your journal
- Which repeated condition produced the strongest evidence?
- Which missed rule was most frequent or costly?
- What single observable behaviour will be the next-week focus?
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