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Accountability partners are a gentler version of being watched. Instead of a public audience, one person who knows your rules and checks in at the end of each week. They don't see trades live, just the summary and whether rules were followed. That keeps the benefits of accountability, like more care with rules, without the pressure of someone watching each decision. It works best when the other person trades too and understands that losses are part of the process. A short weekly message is enough, and it doesn't need to include any numbers, just the rule adherence and what you'll focus on next week.

Have you noticed a difference in trading when you record your screen? Some traders record sessions to review later, and even knowing the recording exists can change behaviour slightly, like being more careful or more hesitant. It's a milder form of being watched, since nobody sees it live. For most people the effect fades after a few days. Reviewing recordings can show things you wouldn't remember, like how long you hesitated before an entry or how often you looked at the profit and loss during a trade. Those details are hard to notice any other way.

I notice this one on my own results. Whenever I've told somebody I was taking a trade, I've held it longer than my plan said, mostly because closing it early at a loss felt like admitting I was wrong in public. On a test month of 28 trades, the ones I'd announced to a friend ran about 0.4R worse on average than the ones I'd kept quiet. Not a huge sample, but the direction was obvious.

The opposite also happens. When someone's watching, I skip decent setups because I don't want to look indecisive. So the audience pushes you both ways, which is why the watched versus private comparison you suggested seems useful to me.

I'd keep sharing process, not results. Posting "I took two setups today and followed my entry rules on both" is fine. Posting "I'm long 1 lot GBPUSD at 1.2750" is where the ego attaches.

For a private journal that only gets summaries shared, how often do you share? Weekly seems about right to me. And do you think having a trading partner who reviews your journal is still an audience problem, or does it help?