Six questions. No signup required to see your score. Find out if your next trade is a setup — or a reaction.
Revenge trading is opening a new position to emotionally recover a previous loss, rather than because a valid setup appeared. If you increase size, skip your checklist, or re-enter the same symbol within minutes of a loss, you're showing the pattern. The test below scores how strongly.
This is what a real week of recovery trading looks like once it's tracked instead of felt.
Trigger: a red day.
Evidence: 3 same-symbol re-entries within 20 min of a loss.
The one rule: after any loss, close the app for 30 minutes.
Loss 8 min ago · same symbol · size up 2.1×. This reads as recovery, not execution. No new entry for 30 minutes.
Down $180 on a clean EUR/USD short that hit its stop. Eleven minutes later, a new long on the same pair, 1.6× the usual size, no journal entry, no checklist. It lost too. Forty minutes after that, a third trade — smaller this time, more careful, and it worked. Three trades, one loss that mattered, and two that were never really about the chart.
“The size and the missing journal entry are the tell — not the loss.”
PnL App's Discipline Mode flags recovery trades in real time and can lock the app after a loss — so the next entry waits for you, not the other way around.