Traders who improve fastest are not watching more streams. They run the same review every Sunday. The agenda matters more than the duration. Forty-five focused minutes beats three hours of random chart scrolling.
Minutes 0-10: Equity and drawdown
Open the weekly equity curve. Note net P and L, largest single-day move, and current drawdown from peak. Compare to your written risk limit. If you are inside limits, do not celebrate yet. If you breached them, size reduction is the first action for Monday.
Minutes 10-25: Grade every trade
Sort the week by grade A through D. Count plan-following trades versus rule breaks. One broken rule appearing three times is a pattern, not bad luck. Screenshot the worst D-grade trade and write what you will change.
- Best trade: what setup and context repeated
- Worst trade: emotion tag and rule violated
- Most expensive habit this week (late entries, oversize, no stop)
Minutes 25-40: Forward decisions
Pick exactly three decisions for next week: one setup to focus on, one behavior to stop, one risk parameter to adjust. More than three and none get executed. Write them at the top of your journal or pin them in JTrader.
Minutes 40-45: Calendar block
Schedule next Sunday before you close the laptop. Recurring calendar events beat motivation. The traders who skip review for a month usually stopped blocking the time, not because the market changed.
Run this agenda for four Sundays before you customize it. Consistency builds the dataset; customization comes after you trust the numbers. Enable weekly reports at app.jtrader.org and block your first review this weekend.