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📝 The 5 Pillars of a Real Trading Plan
Most trading mistakes don’t come from bad market conditions. They come from a lack of structure. This framework breaks a trading plan into five core components that keep decision-making stable under pressure.
1️⃣ Routine
Trading starts before the market opens.
A routine defines how you prepare: marking key levels, removing invalidated scenarios, updating context. Consistent preparation reduces impulsive decisions and keeps execution repeatable.
2️⃣ Bias
You need a clear directional framework.
What is your current market view? More importantly, where is it invalidated?
Bias is not belief — it’s a conditional hypothesis. Without it, traders flip direction emotionally instead of strategically.
3️⃣ Levels
Ideas are useless without location.
Levels define where you are willing to engage: liquidity zones, session highs/lows, areas where participation and emotion peak. This is where asymmetry exists. If you don’t know where you act, you’re reacting, not trading.
4️⃣ Execution
Entries must be rule-based, not intuitive.
What exactly confirms the trade? Volume behavior, delta, structure, candle pattern?
The clearer the trigger, the less room emotions have to interfere. Vague execution leads to inconsistent results.
5️⃣ Review
No review means no improvement.
What worked, what didn’t, and what rules were broken? Which opportunities were missed?
Review turns experience into skill. Without it, progress stalls regardless of market conditions.
A trading plan is not just entries and exits.
It’s a system that controls attention, risk, and behavior.
Remove any one of these pillars, and the market will eventually expose the weakness.
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