Still finding consistency
The strategy is fine. You are not running it.
If your backtest works and your account does not, the gap is not analysis. You do not need another indicator or another two hundred trades of data. You need to find out how often you actually do the thing you already know to do.
Here is the test. Over your last fifty trades, how many followed your own rules completely? Not roughly. Completely. If you cannot answer that to within ten, that number is the most valuable one missing from your trading, and it is the one this page is about.
Three weeks in
What Traily actually tells you.
Which rule you break
Not rules in general. The one. Almost everybody has a single rule that accounts for most of their breaks, and almost nobody can name it correctly before they measure.
When you break it
By day of the week, by session, by instrument, and by what you were feeling when you went in. Most leaks are situational, and the situation is usually yesterday.
What it costs, and what it pays
Including the uncomfortable number: how often breaking a rule still worked out. That is the reason the habit survives, and seeing it on a page is what finally kills it.
Why the streak is not a gimmick
It counts showing up, not winning.
A streak built on green days would be a lie, because green days are not yours to decide. A streak built on closing your day honestly is entirely yours. You can have a red day and keep it. You can stay out of the market entirely and keep it. The only way to lose it is to stop turning up.
That distinction is why the number survives a bad week, and why it is the one figure you can hand to somebody else without handing them your account.
- A day you deliberately stayed out keeps the streak alive
- Weekends never break it on a weekdays contract
- You can close a day you missed, up to a week back, marked honestly as filled in late
- Money is structurally banned from touching any of it
The first two weeks
Expect it to look bad.
Nearly everyone's first fortnight of honest measurement is worse than they expected, and that is the only reason the number is worth anything. A compliance figure you flattered is a figure you cannot use. Log the breaks. Mark the ugly days red. In three weeks you will have something no amount of chart reading would have given you.
Questions
I do not have rules yet. Where do I start?
Onboarding offers a handful of common ones — no revenge trade, no chasing, no sizing up to recover a loss, never move my stop, only trades that are in my plan, respect my max trades a day — and you edit them into your own words. Four is plenty. Twelve is a wish list.
What if I break rules constantly at first?
Good. That is the measurement. The first two weeks are meant to be ugly, and the number only means anything because you did not flatter it.
Is a streak not just pressure?
It counts days you closed honestly, and a day you deliberately stayed out keeps it alive. The only way to break it is to not show up, which is the one habit worth protecting.
Do I need a buddy?
No, but it is the single biggest change most people report. Somebody seeing a red day and saying nothing about it is worth more than any chart.
Find out your real number.
Write four rules, clear them before each trade for two weeks, and read the result. It is free while we build it.
Free while we build it. No card, no download, no broker connection.