Built a trading journal that tracks the emotion behind every entry instead of just the P&L.
The bet: the reason you took the trade matters more than the ticker.
Your journal says you lost $340 on NQ.
It doesn't say it was your third trade in nine minutes, right after a stop-out.
The P&L is the symptom. The sequence is the problem.
Nobody places a revenge trade thinking "this is a revenge trade."
In the moment it feels like conviction.
That's why you catch it in the review, not in the moment.
Ways to lose a funded account without taking a bad trade:
— consistency rule: one day too big
— trailing drawdown: floor follows your peak
— daily loss limit: breached intraday, closed green
Tracking problems, not trading problems.