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How to Run a Weekly Trade Review in 20 Minutes

  • Trading
  • Journaling

Logging trades is only half of keeping a journal. The other half is reading it. Without a regular review, a journal is just a diary of numbers; with one, it becomes a feedback loop that makes your decisions better over time.

The review does not need to be long. Twenty focused minutes once a week is enough, as long as you follow the same structure each time. This is general education about process, not financial advice.

Before you start

Pick a fixed time — end of the trading week works well — and a fixed place. Have your journal open and nothing else. The goal is to look at your own behaviour calmly, which is much harder in the middle of a trading session.

Minutes 0–5: Look at the shape of the week

Start with the overview, not individual trades. How many trades did you take? What was the overall result in R? Which setups did you trade, and how did each one do? Resist drawing conclusions from a handful of trades. You are only collecting facts.

Minutes 5–12: Review the best and worst trades

Pick the best and worst trade of the week and compare each against your written plan. Two questions matter more than the outcome:

  • Did I follow my plan?
  • Would I take this exact trade again, knowing what I knew at the time?

A losing trade that followed the plan is fine. A winning trade that broke the plan is a warning. Judge decisions by the process, not the result.

Minutes 12–17: Count your mistake tags

Tally the mistake tags from the week: entered early, moved stop, oversized and so on. Look for the one that appears most often. Over a few weeks, patterns will become clear, and a repeating mistake is far easier to fix than a vague feeling of "I need to be more disciplined".

Minutes 17–20: Choose one thing to change

End by writing a single, specific adjustment for next week. Not five. For example: wait for the candle to close before entering or do not move a stop further from entry. At the start of next week's review, check whether you did it.

  1. Overview of the week (5 minutes).
  2. Best and worst trade against the plan (7 minutes).
  3. Mistake tag count (5 minutes).
  4. One adjustment for next week (3 minutes).

Building a structured Trading Journal that supports this loop is one of the projects we are working on at Omukti. It is still in development.

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