Trader’s Checklist
is a set of risk-management routines to help you evaluate Fill out this checklist daily before, during and after your
factors that affect your trading sessions. These factors trading session. This will create a historical record of
include pre-market actions, your emotional state, the your trades: use it to analyze your trading, spot
necessary trading setups, analysis of the last trade, and mitstakes, and highlight decisions that worked.
trading improvement ideas.
Trader’s Checklist: risk-management chart
Checked What to check
At the beginning of the day
Did I calculate my risk per day? (Loss per day that stops my trading)
Is there any news I should know about?
Am I ready for losses?
Before the trade
Do I feel greedy?
Do I feel anxious?
Does my analysis conflict with my trading strategy?
Do I feel the urge to open a trade no matter what? (Do I want to trade even when there are no setups?)
In the trade
Did I set my Take Profit target?
Did I set my Stop Loss target?
I closed the chart and let the market do its part.
After the trade
Did I close the trade according to my plan?
Am I ready to trade more today?