Do you keep a mistake archive?

A list of your repeated mistakes, with dates and screenshots, is the least glamorous tool in trading and one of the most effective. Reading it before a session is a vaccine against repeating the classics.

Do you keep a mistake archive? — trading sessions clock diagram
The four forex trading sessions across a 24-hour day

What's in yours?

  • the recurring mistakes on your list
  • how you use the archive before trading
  • the mistake that finally stopped recurring
Do you keep a mistake archive? — drawdown and recovery diagram
An equity curve during a drawdown and its recovery

The journal guide gives the archive a structure.

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