Trading
Order ticket, depth, blotter and chart, on your prop-firm account or your funded brokerage account. The fill is in your journal before you close the platform.
The platform
Most traders run a broker, a journal and a backtester that know nothing about each other. The handover between them is done by hand, on a Sunday, and it is where the edge goes.
The part that matters is not the order ticket. It is that the fill is already tagged with the session, the instrument and the account by the time you have stood up.
Tag what happened while it is fresh and let the counting do the arguing. When most of your losses this month carry one tag, that is no longer a feeling about your discipline.
You found the leak. Write the rule that plugs it without writing code, and run it over historical data before it touches a live account.
Order ticket, depth, blotter and chart, on your prop-firm account or your funded brokerage account. The fill is in your journal before you close the platform.
Build the rule without writing code, then run it over historical data. Find out it does not work before your account does.
Fills arrive on their own. You add the part a machine cannot — what you were thinking — then replay the trade bar by bar and watch yourself take it again.
Import your history and the journal is populated before you finish your coffee.