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Trading psychology assessment

Eight questions across plan, risk, execution, and emotion — the four places a trading edge actually breaks.

Short answer

Trading psychology is the gap between the trader you plan to be and the one who actually clicks the mouse under pressure. It's not about eliminating emotion — it's about building a process that catches the emotional decision before it becomes a trade. This assessment scores where yours currently breaks.

01 The assessment

Eight questions, four categories

1. Do you trade from a written plan rather than a feeling?
2. Do you define your risk before you enter, every time?
3. After a loss, does your position size stay the same?
4. Do you only take trades that match your setup, not ones that just look exciting?
5. Can you let a winning trade run to its planned target without closing early out of fear?
6. Do you stay out of the market when you're tired, angry, or distracted?
7. Are you able to ignore news headlines and social media hype while a trade is live?
8. Do you journal and review your trades, including the ones you'd rather forget?
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Want the full picture? The 20-question diagnostic breaks this down by category with explanations for every answer.

02 What PnL App would show

A sample behavioral report

Four categories, scored independently, so you know exactly which one is leaking.

30-day behavioral summary

Category scores

Plan & process74%
Risk habits61%
Execution52%
Emotion31%

Pnlee's read: the plan is solid and risk is mostly under control. Emotion is where this account bleeds — mostly in the twenty minutes after a loss.

03 A real pattern

What this looks like on an actual account

Composite example, from PnL App usage patterns

Two months of data on one account: plan and risk sizing were nearly perfect on green days. On red days, the same trader's checklist completion dropped by half and average hold time on losers stretched from 12 minutes to 40 — the classic sign of hoping a losing trade turns around instead of following the plan.

“The strategy didn't change between good days and bad ones. The trader did.

Not more signals — a mirror

Know which version of you is trading.

PnL App tracks plan, risk, execution, and emotion separately, so you can see exactly which one needs work instead of guessing.

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