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Journal fields that catch risk leaks

P&L alone will not tell you that you widened three stops last week. These fields will.

Outcome-only journals flatter luck and bury process. Add fields that force a yes or no: planned size used, stop moved after entry, added to a loser, took risk after a soft drawdown warning.

Score process separately from P&L. A green day with three rule breaks is a warning. A red day with full adherence is data, not failure.

In Trade Journal Review sessions we often find the same three leaks: sizing after emotional attachment, stop widening within the first hour, and trading through a soft threshold without reducing size. Those patterns appear in checkboxes long before they appear in equity curves.

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