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The Autopsy: Reading Your Own Trades

Export your own history and take it apart: which setup makes your money, which day loses it, and whether any of it is more than luck.

Who it is for
A reader with at least fifty closed trades and no idea what they say.
Before you start
The Arithmetic of an Account.
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You will be able to

  • Export a trade history and turn it into a log you can sort
  • Keep a journal that records the decision, not only the result
  • Find which of your setups actually makes the money
  • Find the day and the hour where your money goes
  • Name the biases that make your own review dishonest
  • Say whether a run of wins is a sample big enough to mean anything

15 papers

A short quiz after every paper; the next paper opens when you pass it.

  1. Unit 1

    Getting the record out

    1. 01How to Export Your Trade History5 min
    2. 02How to Build a Trade Log5 min
    3. 03How to Keep a Trading Journal5 min
    4. 04What to Write in a Trading Journal5 min

  2. Unit 2

    Reading it honestly

    1. 05How to Measure Your Own Win Rate Honestly5 min
    2. 06Which Setup Makes Your Money5 min
    3. 07How to Find Your Best Trading Day5 min
    4. 08How to Review Your Trading Week5 min

  3. Unit 3

    The biases in your own reading

    1. 09What Is Hindsight Bias5 min
    2. 10What Is Recency Bias5 min
    3. 11What Is Confirmation Bias in Trading5 min
    4. 12What Is Survivorship Bias5 min

  4. Unit 4

    Luck or edge

    1. 13How to Tell Luck From a Real Edge5 min
    2. 14What Is a Sample Size5 min
    3. 15What Is Statistical Significance, in Plain Words5 min