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EVERY TRADER HAS A SCORE.
YOUR SCORE:1 / 25
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The lesson behind every square
1.Moved my stop "just this once"
Moving the stop further away after entry turns a planned loss into an unplanned one, and the position was sized for the original stop.
Avoid it: Put the stop where the idea is wrong before you enter. If the trade needs more room, that means a smaller position, decided before entry.
2.Entered before the candle closed
If your setup is a closed candle, the pattern can still disappear before the close, and you are in a trade your plan never gave you.
Avoid it: When the setup needs a close, wait for the close, even if price runs without you. Entry timing also decides where your stop can go.
3.Doubled the lot to win it back
Doubling after a loss raises risk exactly when judgment is at its worst. One more loss now digs twice the hole.
Avoid it: Size comes from your stop and a fixed risk per trade, never from the last result.
4.Checked P&L every 10 seconds
Watching open profit and loss turns a plan into a feeling. It is what pushes early exits and moved stops.
Avoid it: Set the stop and the target, set alerts at your own levels, and read the chart, not the money.
Read: Computer or Phone: What Each Screen Gives a Trader, and What It Costs
5.Closed the winner too early
Small wins next to full losses make the average loss bigger than the average win, and then even a good win rate can lose money.
Avoid it: Decide the exit before you enter. If you take profit early, make it part of the plan, not a reaction.
6.Let the loser run
The same math in reverse: one loss you did not cut can erase many wins.
Avoid it: The stop is part of the trade, not an option you decide on later.
7.Revenge trade right after a loss
A trade taken to win back a loss, not because your setup is there.
Avoid it: Have a pause rule for after a loss: a set break, or an end to the day after a set number of losses.
8.Bought the challenge again the same day
Buying a new challenge right after failing one repeats the same conditions that failed, and the fees add up.
Avoid it: Find what broke the account first, in your journal, then decide whether to buy again.
9.Moved TP because "it can go further"
Moving the target after entry changes the trade you planned and sized. A win you had can become break-even or a loss.
Avoid it: If you want to let a winner run, plan how: for example, trail the stop by a rule, not by hope.
Read: Trailing Your Stop: Break-Even, Protected Profit, and How Close Is Too Close
10.Journal? What journal?
Without a record, memory keeps the wins and deletes the losses, so the same leak keeps repeating.
Avoid it: Log every trade, with one column that matters most: did I follow my plan?
11.Added to a losing trade
Adding to a losing position raises size exactly while the market is proving the idea wrong. The stop now costs more than you planned.
Avoid it: Keep the total risk of the position inside your plan, no matter how many entries it has.
12.Broke the daily loss limit by $3
A prop firm's daily loss limit is a hard line. Three dollars over fails the account like three thousand, and some firms count open losses too.
Avoid it: Know exactly how your firm calculates the limit, and stop well before it.
13.Free space:"The candle never touched my stop."
On a Bid chart, a short's stop is checked against Ask, which sits one spread above the candles. The stop can trigger while the candle stays below it.
Avoid it: Switch on the Ask price line before you call it a stop hunt.
Read: Bid, Ask and Your Stop: Why a Short Can Close Before the Candle Gets There
14.No stop. "I'll watch it."
Without a stop there is no defined risk and no way to size the position, and nothing protects you if you look away or the connection drops.
Avoid it: Every trade gets a stop at entry.
15.Traded from my phone in a meeting
Placing an order is a sequence of steps, and an interruption raises the chance of getting a step wrong.
Avoid it: Do not open or manage trades while you are doing something else, and silence notifications while you fill an order.
Read: Computer or Phone: What Each Screen Gives a Trader, and What It Costs
16.Changed the plan after entry
The plan was made with a clear head. Changes in the middle of a trade are made under the pressure of open profit or loss.
Avoid it: Write the entry, stop, target and size before you enter, and log any change with the reason.
17.Risked more because "this setup is different"
Conviction does not change the odds of one trade. Bigger size on the sure ones is how a single loss becomes a large one.
Avoid it: Keep the risk per trade fixed, whatever the setup feels like.
18.Closed it, then watched it hit TP
Closing early out of fear, then watching price reach the target you had planned.
Avoid it: If you want to take some risk off, do it by plan, for example a partial close, and log every early exit to see if it is a pattern.
Read: Partial Close: Same Stop, Less Size, Less Downside and Less Upside
19.The trailing drawdown got me
A trailing drawdown follows your highest balance or equity, so profits can raise the floor and a normal pullback can fail the account.
Avoid it: Track where the floor is now, not only your balance.
20.Ignored the news calendar
Many accounts lost to a release were not trading it. They were holding a position opened an hour earlier.
Avoid it: Check the economic calendar before the session starts. It takes two minutes.
Read: The Two-Minute Routine That Keeps News From Finding You
21.Copied a signal I did not understand
You take all of the risk without knowing where the idea is wrong or how much the trade should risk.
Avoid it: If you cannot explain the stop and the size, do not take the trade.
22.Traded because I was bored
A trade taken to do something is a trade without a setup.
Avoid it: No setup, no trade. Quiet days are part of the plan.
23."One more trade" at 2 a.m.
Tired, and chasing the day's result: the conditions in which rules are easiest to break.
Avoid it: Set a fixed end time, or a maximum number of trades a day.
24.New strategy after 3 losses
Three losses in a row is a normal streak for most strategies. Switching resets your sample before it can tell you anything.
Avoid it: Judge a strategy on a meaningful number of trades from your journal, not on the last three.
25.Overtraded a slow day
Forcing trades in a quiet market means weaker setups and more costs.
Avoid it: Cap the number of trades per day, and let slow days be slow.
Educational content only, not financial advice. Nothing here is a trade idea. Prop firm rules differ by firm and by program, so check your own firm's terms.