Who this is for — The most important metric at Bronze: not the profit of a single trade, but whether you did what you decided. At Bronze the "plan" is risk, stop, and limits; in Silver it becomes the full trading-plan.
Plan adherence is a binary judgment per trade: did you respect risk %, stop, entry-reason, maximum-loss, and pauses — yes or no.
In plain terms — You can lose money and have followed the plan (good). You can profit and have violated it (bad). The journal tracks behavior, not just green or red.
Bronze checklist (per trade)
- Risk within defined percentage-risk
- Stop defined before entry
- entry-reason written
- No revenge-trading / tilt
- Within daily limits
Example — 20 trades in a month: 12 with "plan adhered = yes," 8 no. Win rate 45% but trades with plan respected show positive expectancy; the others destroy the account. Focus: eliminate the 8, not chase win rate.
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- What it is: adherence to rules decided before the trade.
- When to measure it: at close of every trade in the journal.
- Typical mistake: judging only the result in euros.
Bronze path — Module: First trading journal. Part of bronze-path.
Links
Module: Module 6 — First trading journal
Turn every trade into data.
