Ending on process score even if P&L begs for more
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2026 5:53 pm
Ending on process score when P&L begs for more
Green days are dangerous. The chart still moves, the spread looks fine, and the account whispers for one more. I used to answer that whisper and donate the morning’s work into late-session noise. Now I answer a process score instead of the P&L line.
Before London I write three process items I will honour — examples: no revenge size, no news chase, time-stop every scalp. At the end of the planned window I score myself 0–3. If I am 3/3, I am allowed to stop even if I am up less than I “wanted.” If I am 1/3, I stop especially if I am green — luck is not a licence to keep clicking.
Desk rule: process score closes the book, not the P&L line. It feels odd the first fortnight. Then you notice the give-back trades vanish from the journal and Fridays stop being a second job.
Do you have a non-P&L exit criterion for the day, or does the green number still talk you into overtime?
Green days are dangerous. The chart still moves, the spread looks fine, and the account whispers for one more. I used to answer that whisper and donate the morning’s work into late-session noise. Now I answer a process score instead of the P&L line.
Before London I write three process items I will honour — examples: no revenge size, no news chase, time-stop every scalp. At the end of the planned window I score myself 0–3. If I am 3/3, I am allowed to stop even if I am up less than I “wanted.” If I am 1/3, I stop especially if I am green — luck is not a licence to keep clicking.
Desk rule: process score closes the book, not the P&L line. It feels odd the first fortnight. Then you notice the give-back trades vanish from the journal and Fridays stop being a second job.
Do you have a non-P&L exit criterion for the day, or does the green number still talk you into overtime?