How do you review a trade you shouldn't have taken?

Some trades are mistakes before they're losers: off-plan, oversized, or taken on impulse. The review that matters isn't "I lost" but "why was I in this trade at all".

How do you examine your bad trades?

• the questions you ask yourself after
• how you distinguish bad luck from bad process
• what you do to make the same mistake harder to repeat

The journal guide suggests the fields that make these reviews possible.