Building a Sunday chart review routine
Profitable weeks are when traders abandon review. The journal feels vindicated, so nobody checks whether pre-trade entries were complete or whether wins came from rule-following or luck.
A Sunday routine removes that decision. Same time, same steps, same template — regardless of the week's P&L.
Block sixty minutes, non-negotiable
Schedule it like an appointment. Gather every trade from the week — spreadsheet rows, journal pages, screenshot folders. If you took zero trades, the review still happens: log why and whether that matched your plan.
Step 1: Compliance count (ten minutes)
Count trades where all pre-trade fields were completed before entry. Express as a fraction — "4 of 6." Track this number weekly in a single cell at the top of your review page. Trend matters more than any single week.
Step 2: One honest loss review (fifteen minutes)
Pick the loss where you were most confident going in. Re-read your pre-trade entry without looking at the outcome. Did the invalidation level make sense? Did price actually break it, or did you exit early?
Step 3: One win you do not understand (fifteen minutes)
Profitable trades you cannot explain are future losses. Find a win where your post-trade section says "lucky" or is blank. Annotate what price did that you did not anticipate.
Step 4: Pattern scan across charts (fifteen minutes)
Scroll through saved screenshots. Look for repeated mistakes — entering before session range defined, chasing moves after two green candles, moving stops without a journal note. Write one pattern in a single sentence.
Step 5: One focus for next week (five minutes)
Not three improvements. One. Example: "Complete emotional state field on every trade" or "No entries in first fifteen minutes of London."
When mentorship clients send this page
We ask for a photo or PDF of the weekly summary page every Sunday during the programme. The habit of external accountability is often what makes the routine stick after mentorship ends.