📈 PNL보단 '실행 완성도'에 집중해보려 합니다

How well I followed and executed my pre market plan

I meassure progress by contantly trying to refine my edge, it's what keeps me away from the charts and potentially overtrading and getting emotional. I've recently automated all of my trading after dabbling with ordeflow and from my backtests it's going to be a good year!

Decide what behaviours you want to be consistent with and log them for each trade. You can then review your progress objectively.
I include stuff like chart markup, preparation, was entry timing ok late or early.

You do measure progress by profits but the goal should be on maintaining a rising equity curve and slowly sizing up over time (and sizing back down when appropriate). Where people mess up is they focus on how much they're making or losing and start trading their PNL instead of their plan.

Good execution should result in a rising equity curve. A rising equity curve over time is permission to slightly increase your risk.

Execution metrics > P&L for me too. If the process is solid, the money eventually follows.

Look at your pnl at the end of the week.

That’s usually a good sign. Boring and repeatable is what consistency looks like. A lot of traders measure progress through things like rule adherence, execution quality, drawdown control, and how closely results match their expected outcomes rather than just PnL. If you’re following the same process cleanly and variance is doing what it should, profits tend to take care of themselves over time. You can track your performance using tools like [milkthepips.com](http://milkthepips.com)

Good question - (1) Minimized emotional reactions (e.g. FOMO, panic selling, revenge trading, (2) How well I DCA into a position to reduce risk of being down, (3) How well I choose outlier opportunities (this is discipline in knowing my edge and keeping to it). I made a tool to help me with the first one. I made many regretful emotional mistakes early on - I think if people avoid those they will generally be satisfied and not give up so soon.

This is the way. Focus on process, not profits. The patience to wait for your signal, the confidence to execute when the time comes, the discipline to accept your risk and not overtrade, being realistic with your progress and profit taking, accepting base hits instead of demanding home runs.

Focus on the process, and the profits take care of themselves. All the posts on here people saying they'll make $XXX or +X% every single day. You don't see many follow up posts from them several months later for some reason.

Have a system you are confident in, wait for your setup, size right and set your stop loss, exit with profits when you can. Rinse and repeat.