The Weekly Reset: How Top Traders Prepare for Monday
The Weekly Reset: How Top Traders Prepare for Monday
Friday close. The week is done. Most traders shut their laptops and don't think about trading until Monday morning. Then they wonder why Monday is their worst day.
The best traders use the weekend differently. They run a Weekly Reset: a structured review that closes one week and prepares for the next. It takes about an hour. It's the highest-ROI hour of your trading week.
Step 1: Trade Review (20 minutes)
Pull up every trade from the week in TradeZella or your journal. Sort by setup type. Calculate win rate, average R, and total P&L by category. Ask: Which setups worked? Which didn't? Were my losses system trades or emotional trades?
Separate the signal from the noise. A bad week with good execution is fine. A good week with bad execution is a warning sign.
Step 2: Rule Adherence Audit (10 minutes)
Go through each trade and mark whether you followed your rules. Calculate your rule adherence percentage. If it's below 80%, that ...
Building a Trading Business Plan: Beyond Just Entries
Building a Trading Business Plan: Beyond Just Entries
Ask a trader about their business plan and they will show you a chart setup. That is not a business plan. That is one entry signal. A real trading business plan covers five areas that most traders never think about.
Section 1: Edge Definition
What is your edge? Not your strategy. Your edge. An edge is a statistical advantage that produces positive expected value over a large sample of trades. Your strategy is how you exploit that edge.
Write it down in one sentence. Example: I trade RVOL + VWAP mean reversion setups on NQ futures during the first two hours of the session, with a 58% win rate and 1.8:1 average reward-to-risk. That is an edge definition. If you can't write one, you don't have an edge yet.
Section 2: Risk Parameters
Your risk parameters are the hard limits that protect your capital. Max risk per trade (1-2% of account). Max daily loss (2-3% of account). Max weekly loss (5% of account). Max monthly drawdown (8-10%...