THE CIX ARCHIVE · A FRESH EDITION
Keep the Losses. Keep the Lessons.
The final guide brings the method together: keep the original plan, the actual result and the decision you would change. A winning trade can hide a poor process; a losing trade can still follow a sound plan. This completes the foundation lessons. Keep the guides, continue at your own pace and watch for new free course lessons.
Record the decision before the result
Write the pair, timestamp, market condition, entry idea, invalidation, size and expected costs before the trade. Keep a screenshot or source link. Afterward, record the fills, fees, exit and account currency. Append your review rather than rewriting the original plan. A useful journal makes changes of mind visible.
Separate outcome from process
A profitable result does not prove the decision was good. A loss does not automatically prove it was bad. Ask whether you followed the written plan, whether the evidence was sound and whether the risk fitted the situation. Review mistakes such as chasing an entry, ignoring a changed condition or increasing size after a loss. Make the next improvement something you can observe.
Count what happened, not just what won
Include losing trades, fees, cancelled orders and days you chose not to trade. A win rate needs its sample size and average win and loss to mean anything. In a hypothetical ten-trade sample, six wins of $10 and four losses of $20 total a $20 loss before costs despite a 60% win rate. A small sample is also a weak basis for estimating what happens next.
Review one habit each week
Choose a fixed review time. Look for repeated decisions rather than searching for a story that flatters the result. Pick one change, such as recording invalidation before entry or checking exit liquidity before sizing. Keep the rule stable long enough to evaluate it. Changing several rules after every loss makes it hard to learn which change mattered.
Your final exercise
Create a one-page review of a paper-trading sample: number of trades, total result after costs, largest loss, best and worst process decisions, and one rule for the next sample. You have now covered the foundations, CIX call language, ranges, liquidity and execution. The eight weekly emails end here; you are not automatically moved onto another marketing list. The free library and community remain available whenever you want to return.
Adapted from Trading rules for Crypto-Forex-stocks and the early CIX archive. The journal and hypothetical arithmetic examples are new. Educational material; examples are not live trade instructions.