Journal gaps that private review catches early

A screenshot alone is a weak journal. In private review we look for three sentences that should have been written before entry: the higher-timeframe bias, the pullback zone in plain words, and the invalidation. Without them, post-trade commentary invents a story that flatters the result.

Stop notes need equal care. “Hit stop” is not analysis. Was the shelf wrong, the width inside normal noise, or the thesis already dead before the stop was tagged? Those answers point to different drills.

Bring incomplete journals anyway. The session’s job is to install the missing prompts so the next fortnight of charts can be reviewed without fiction.