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Posted: **Thu Oct 08, 2026 10:29 am**

Annotating my best trade of the week to learn what it actually looked like

most of my review time went on losses and mistakes. I realised that I never really studied my best trades, so I started a small habit: every week, I pick the best trade, the one that followed the plan most cleanly, and I annotate the chart in detail.

I mark the levels, the context, the signal candle, my entry, stop and target, and what happened afterwards. I write a few lines on what I saw and what made it a good trade. Then I save the picture in a folder called "reference".

After a couple of months, the folder was a good picture of what my best setups look like. When I'm in the middle of a session and unsure about a trade, I can look at the folder and compare. It's a better guide than any description in words.

It's also good for my morale. Looking at a set of well executed trades reminds me that I can do it, which helps after a bad week. The aim isn't to be proud, it's to build a clear picture of what I'm trying to repeat.

Posted: **Thu Oct 08, 2026 10:58 am**

I like this a lot. I do a version where I put the best trade and the worst trade side by side every week. The contrast makes the difference between them clearer than looking at either alone. Usually the best one has a clear level, good timing and a clean signal candle, and the worst one is missing at least one of those. Having both in the reference folder means I can quickly check which one a current setup looks more like.

Posted: **Thu Oct 08, 2026 11:28 am**

The point about best meaning cleanest execution and not biggest winner is important. A big winner can come from luck, and if I study that, I learn the wrong lesson. I pick the trade that followed every rule, even if it was a small win or a loss. Some weeks my best trade lost, because it was a correct trade that just did not work. Those are still worth annotating. Over time the folder becomes a picture of good decisions rather than lucky outcomes, and that is what I want my eye trained on.

Posted: **Tue Oct 13, 2026 11:33 am**

Fairman wrote: Thu Oct 08, 2026 10:29 am Annotating my best trade of the week to learn what it actually looked like

most of my review time went on losses and mistakes. I realised that I never really studied my best trades, so I started a small habit: every week, I pick the best trade, the one that followed the plan most cleanly, and I annotate the chart in detail.

I mark the levels, the context, the signal candle, my entry, stop and target, and what happened afterwards. I write a few lines on what I saw and what made it a good trade. Then I save the picture in a folder called "reference".

After a couple of months, the folder was a good picture of what my best setups look like. When I'm in the middle of a session and unsure about a trade, I can look at the folder and compare. It's a better guide than any description in words.

It's also good for my morale. Looking at a set of well executed trades reminds me that I can do it, which helps after a bad week. The aim isn't to be proud, it's to build a clear picture of what I'm trying to repeat.

Hi Fairman,

this is not bad idea, but i prefer to select just based on my feeling.
Time to time i will make a note with printscreen of such trade.
But on another hand longer i trade it have to be much more special, because most of trades are very common for me.

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