Unit 4 · Level 2 · The Trader's Journal
The weekly review
Trades are reps; the REVIEW is the training. Once a week, 20 minutes: reread the journal, sort trades into 'followed plan' vs 'broke plan', compute the week in R, and pick ONE thing to fix. Not five. One.
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What you get asked
The most revealing split in a weekly review is…
Regardless of which ones made money. A plan-breaking WINNER is the most dangerous trade you'll ever make, because it pays you to learn the wrong lesson. The review catches it before it becomes a habit.
This week: +2.1R total, but 3 of 8 trades broke your rules (all three happened after losses). The real finding is…
Profitable week, dangerous pattern, fix THAT. Green weeks hide red habits. The journal + review combo is the only tool that catches a pattern WHILE it's still cheap.
Each weekly review ends by choosing exactly ___ improvement for next week.
'Fix everything' fixes nothing. One rep per week, compounded, rebuilds a trader within months. It's the same compounding logic as DCA, applied to skill.
Order the 20-minute weekly review
Twenty minutes. Most traders never do it, which is exactly why doing it is an edge.
Formi's framing: trades are practice, reviews are coaching. What does skipping reviews make you?
Repetition without feedback deepens whatever you already do, including the errors. Feedback is what turns time into skill. 🐜
The rest of this unit
Journaling, expectancy, the pre-trade checklist, and the weekly review: how skill compounds.