Unit 4 · Level 2 · Process goals
Streaks done right
Streaks are rocket fuel for habits, and you're using one in this app right now. But point that fuel at the wrong target and it explodes: a 'green days' streak tempts you to snatch tiny profits and quietly hold losers overnight, just to keep the calendar pretty. Profit streaks are streaks of dice. Streak what you control: days journaled, checklists run, rules kept.
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What you get asked
Why is a 'green days' streak a dangerous goal?
The goal quietly starts trading for you: exits happen to protect the streak, not to follow the plan. A metric you can only protect by trading worse is a bad metric.
Count the streak you control: days you followed the ___, not days you made money.
Whether you journaled and ran the checklist is 100% yours. Whether the day closed green is substantially the market's mood.
Build a process streak that actually holds
'Journal all four columns on every trade' is streakable. 'Trade brilliantly' is not: a stranger couldn't check the box.
Day 41: your 40-day checklist streak just broke. What's the right response?
Forty days built real wiring that one miss doesn't erase. The all-or-nothing spiral ('streak's dead, why bother') costs more than the missed day ever did.
Sixty straight days of journal + checklist, but P&L is flat. Are you winning?
Sixty days is a habit cemented and a journal full of clean data. If expectancy needs fixing, that data is exactly what will fix it. Flat P&L while learning is winning. 🐜
The rest of this unit
Grade the decision, not the dice: poker thinking, process streaks, and the finished system.