How do you close a trading day?

Opening routines get all the attention; closing routines decide what you carry into tomorrow. A bad day left unresolved tends to produce a worse next day.

How do you close a trading day? — drawdown and recovery diagram
An equity curve during a drawdown and its recovery

Describe your end-of-day routine:

  • what you record before you leave the charts
  • how you close losing days differently from winning ones
  • the habit that made the biggest difference
How do you close a trading day? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The journal guide fits here: five minutes of notes beats an hour of staring.

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