What We Review

Six angles on a trading record. A review takes all of them or one, decided from your data rather than from a package tier.

Six angles. A review can take all of them or one, and which apply is decided from the export you send rather than from a tier on a price list. Most first reviews cover trade history, costs and sizing, because that combination answers the question people actually arrive with.

01 Trade History Review Result decomposed by instrument, session, weekday, holding time and direction, with a test for whether the sample supports any conclusion at all. 02 Strategy Logic Review Entry and exit rules read for internal contradictions, unstated conditions, and the gap between the method as described and the method as executed. 03 Backtest Validation Curve fitting, look-ahead leakage, survivorship in the instrument set, slippage assumptions and parameter stability, checked before capital follows the equity line. 04 Risk and Position Sizing Drawdown mechanics, sizing consistency, behaviour through losing runs, and the correlation between positions that were held at the same time. 05 Execution and Costs Spread, slippage, swap and funding measured against gross result, instrument by instrument, until it is clear which ones give the edge away before the position closes. 06 Behavioural Patterns Size drift after losses, early exits on winners, clustering into narrow windows, and what broken rules cost in currency rather than in regret.

Choosing between them

If you cannot explain the shape of your own equity curve, start with trade history. If the curve is fine but you want to add capital, start with risk and sizing. If a backtest looked strong and live results did not follow, the answer is almost always in backtest validation or in costs, and the two are easy to confuse: a method can be sound and still lose everything it earns to spread.

Where the right starting point is unclear, describe the situation and we will say which section would carry the work. That answer costs nothing.

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