A weekly review is where single trades become a learning curve. This page walks through a simple structure for looking at your decisions, risk and behaviour across several sessions in Forex, Crypto and Binary markets.
Education only · Not trading adviceWorks with your own broker statements and journal
Process review, not performance chasingFocus on decisions and risk first, results second.
Approx. reading time: 8–11 minutes.
Why weekly review instead of only watching the P&L
Single trades are noisy. A week of trades starts to show patterns in your process – where you follow your own rules, where you drift and how your risk behaviour changes after wins or losses.
It zooms out from individual entries to recurring habits.
It connects your journal notes with actual outcomes.
It gives you a natural point to adjust your written plan – not mid-session, in the heat of the moment.
The goal is a 20–30 minute check-in, not a complex report. Simple, consistent reviews beat rare, complicated ones.
A simple weekly review structure
You can run a review in a notebook, spreadsheet or note app. The core idea is to ask the same set of questions every week.
1. Quick snapshot
Number of trading days and trades taken.
Overall result in risk units (for example, +2R, -1.5R).
Any rule-breaking days worth noting.
2. Process and behaviour
Where you followed your plan well.
Where emotions or distractions took over.
Which situations led to your best and worst decisions.
3. Setups and conditions
Which setups you traded most, and why.
Which conditions (trend, range, news) suited you best.
Any markets or times that consistently felt difficult.
4. Risk and sizing
Whether you stayed within your planned risk per trade.
How you reacted after wins or losses.
Any "spikes" in size or risk that need a closer look.
Using simple metrics without turning trading into a spreadsheet project
Metrics can help, but only if they are simple enough to maintain. A few basic numbers are usually enough to see whether your process is stable or drifting.
Examples of light metrics
Win / loss count in risk units.
Average risk per trade over the week.
Number of trades placed outside your written plan (if any).
Things to be careful with
Constantly changing rules based on very small samples of trades.
Ignoring risk and behaviour just because the week ended positive.
Chasing a "perfect" metric instead of learning.
From notes to next week: making small, deliberate changes
The point of a review is to adjust how you operate, not to judge yourself. Small, specific changes compound over time.
Choose one strength to keep: something you did well that week.
Choose one behaviour to adjust: for example, not trading after a certain time or reducing size after two losses.
Update your written plan or checklist with this change in plain language.
Revisit that change in the next weekly review. Did it help? If not, refine it instead of abandoning the whole idea.
You do not need to change everything at once. One or two focused adjustments per week are usually enough.
When to run your review – and how to keep it realistic
Reviews tend to work best when they happen at a regular time, separate from the emotional highs and lows of active trading.
Many traders prefer the weekend or a quiet time after the final session of the week.
Block out 20–30 minutes – enough to think, not so long that you avoid it.
Keep your template short so that you can stick with it even after challenging weeks.
If you miss a week, simply resume with the next one. Consistency over months is more important than never skipping a single review.
