In trading, there is a most dangerous moment:
It’s not that you lose money.
Instead, you clearly didn’t follow your own logic, yet you still ended up profiting.
For example, you didn’t wait for the conditions you wanted to see;
For example, you chase in at the last minute because you’re afraid of missing out;
For example, you didn’t think through the risks in advance—you just happened to see the price continue in a favorable direction.
You make money from the result.
So many people will draw a conclusion:
“Looks like what I did is fine.”
But that’s exactly when it’s easiest to imprint bad habits.
Because the outcome of a single transaction always has a slice of luck in it.
Making money only proves that this time the price moved in a favorable direction; it does not automatically prove that your judgment, plan, and execution were all correct.
Duobayou’s post-mortem on a trade won’t start by asking whether it was a profit or a loss.
Ask three things first:
What was the basis for the judgment at the time?
Was it executed according to the original risk boundaries and observation logic?
In these results, which parts can be copied, and which are just coincidences?
If there was no plan, you chased the entry based on emotions, and you kept changing your mind during the process—then even if you end up making money, it’s more like an “error” rewarded by the market.
On the other hand, a losing trade shouldn’t be rejected entirely just because of one result, as long as the logic was intact at the time, the risk was controllable, and execution didn’t deviate.
What you should keep from a post-mortem is not the profit-and-loss numbers.
Rather, can you make it clearer next time?
Save these three questions:
First reconstruct the information at the time, then review the plan versus execution, and only at the end evaluate the outcome.
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