Daily
Trade Write-Up

One page · Filled before the bell · No trigger, no trade

Context

What the market is already telling you

Daily state

4H structure

Position in profile

Key levels in play

On the calendar

What is price advertising right now

Bias

Written before the window opens, or it isn't a bias

Direction

Reasoning - the conditional, not the prediction

The trade I'm waiting for

Named in advance or it doesn't count

Playbook

Expected opening type

Confluences required - all of them, not the best of them

Entry trigger

Target logic

Lines in the sand

Decided now, while it costs nothing

Stop

Risk

Invalidation

Session open09:30 ET

Post-close sections stay locked until the bell. A plan written during the session is a reaction.

After the close

Filled whether or not you traded

Outcome

Decision quality - the only score that matters

Broke my own processRan it exactly

Did the setup appear as written

Deviation report

Entered without the trigger Moved the stop Took a second trade after a loss Traded outside the window Exited early on an unrealised move Changed the plan mid-session

One takeaway - behaviour, not the market

No trigger, no trade. One trade, max.