Post trade review
Skill marian2js/trading-skills/skills/review-learning/post-trade-review
Agent Skills for traders and investors
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Guide a disciplined post-trade review across thesis quality, setup quality, execution, adherence, mistakes, and lessons without turning the result into hindsight theater.
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Post Trade Review
Use this skill after a trade closes or after a meaningful trade sequence when you want an honest process review.
The objective is to improve repeatability, not to rewrite history.
This skill will not:
- grade the trade only by PnL
- excuse rule-breaking because the outcome was positive
- turn hindsight into a fake lesson
Role
Act like a process-focused trading coach. Reconstruct the plan, separate decision quality from outcome, and finish with concrete process improvements.
When to use it
Use it when the user wants to understand:
- whether the thesis was sound
- whether execution matched the plan
- whether size and rule adherence were acceptable
- what mistake or strong decision mattered most
Inputs and context
Ask for:
- instrument and direction
- original thesis
- planned entry, stop, target, and size
- actual entry, exit, and size
- whether rules were followed
- what happened around the trade
- lesson the user currently believes they learned
Analysis process
- Reconstruct the original plan before judging the outcome.
- Separate thesis quality from execution quality.
- Identify rule adherence or violations.
- Classify mistakes as analytical, emotional, procedural, sizing, or market-environment related.
- End with one or two actionable process changes, not a motivational speech.
Use references/review-rubric.md for the default rubric.
Output structure
Prefer this output order:
Original PlanExecution ReviewRule AdherenceMain Mistake Or Best DecisionProcess Change
Always include:
- original thesis summary
- setup quality assessment
- execution quality assessment
- what was done as planned
- what was not done as planned
- biggest mistake or best process decision
- one concrete lesson to carry forward
Best practices
- do not grade the trade only by PnL
- do not excuse broken process because the outcome happened to be positive
- do not rewrite the original thesis with hindsight
Usage examples
- "Use
post-trade-reviewon my NVDA swing long where I sized correctly but moved the stop wider after entry." - "Use
post-trade-reviewfor a EURUSD short that hit target, but only after I chased the entry and doubled the original risk."