Most traders review their trading when something hurts — after a red week, a blown account or a losing streak they can’t explain. By then the details are gone. You remember the loss, but not why you took the trade, what you saw on the chart or what you felt when you moved your stop. The review becomes a verdict instead of a lesson.
A daily review fixes that, and it doesn’t have to take long. When your day is already built for you — every trade grouped, the P&L curve drawn, the log one click away — five minutes is enough. This guide covers why it’s worth doing every day, what to look at, and how to run it in SniperJournal with My day and Daily Review.
Why review every day
The reason you took a trade is clearest on the same day. The setup you saw, the level you were watching, the hesitation before the entry — it all fades within hours, and by the weekend you are rebuilding it from the P&L. A review done while the memory is fresh records what actually happened, not the story you tell yourself later.
It also catches mistakes while they are still small. A rule you break on Monday is one trade. The same rule broken every day until Friday is a pattern, and patterns are expensive. Tagging a mistake the day it happens is what lets you recognize it next time — and what lets SniperJournal show you what it costs.
And it makes every other review easy. A weekly or monthly review is only as good as the days underneath it. When each day is already classified and annotated, the week practically reviews itself.
What to look at: five questions
You don’t need a template or an hour. A good daily review answers five questions, in this order:
- Did I follow my plan? Not “did I make money”. A green day built on broken rules is a warning; a red day where you did everything right is just variance.
- What shape did the day take? Where did the P&L turn — the first trade, the last hour, the trade right after a loss?
- What stands out? The biggest win, the biggest loss, anything unusually large or fast. Were they part of the plan?
- Is every trade classified? Its strategy, its setup and any mistake — honestly.
- What is the one lesson? One sentence you would tell yourself before tomorrow’s open.
The rest of this guide is SniperJournal making those five answers quick to find.
Step 1 · Open your day with My day
On your Dashboard, next to the period selector at the top, there is a My day button. One click takes you to Journal → Daily Review, already focused on today: the day is selected and its trade log is open, so there is nothing to look for.
No trades yet today? My day doesn’t leave you on an empty page. It shows your last trading day with a short notice, plus a Plan today button that opens today’s Session Plan — handy when you open the app before the session instead of after it.
Step 2 · Read the day at a glance
Each trading day is a card, built automatically from the trades in your journal. The header shows the date and the Day result. Below it you get six numbers — Trades, Wins, Losses, Break even, Win rate and Fees — and next to them the Cumulative P&L curve: how your result moved, trade by trade.
That curve answers question two better than any single number. A steady climb, a spike that gave everything back, a good morning undone by one revenge trade after lunch — the shape of the day is usually the first clue to what went right or wrong.
Trading days follow your time zone, shown at the top of Daily Review. Trade accounts in more than one currency? The day result is listed per currency, and the curve is converted to USD and labeled as such — never a raw sum of different currencies.
Step 3 · Go through every trade without leaving the page
Open Trade logs at the bottom of the card to see every execution of the day: time, symbol, side, quantity, entry, exit, P&L, duration and a Classification column. Click any row and the Trade Detail panel slides in from the right, over the day, so you never lose your place.
This panel is where the review happens. The ← → buttons (or the arrow keys on your keyboard) move to the previous or next trade of the day, in log order. The panel remembers the tab you are on, so you can stay in Tags and tag the whole day in a row. Save Changes confirms with “Changes saved” and keeps the panel open, ready for the next trade.
Its tabs cover everything a trade can hold: Metrics, Chart, Notes, Tags, Playbook and Screenshots. Need more room? Full view opens the complete trade page.
Step 4 · Classify: strategy, setups and mistakes
This is the step that turns a day into data. For each trade, answer two things honestly: which setup it was, and whether anything went wrong.
- Tags — pick the setup and any mistakes. Your favorites sit at the top, you can create your own, and AutoTags can suggest tags for you to accept or ignore.
- Playbook — link the trade to its strategy and tick the rules you actually followed.
Back in the log, the Classification column fills in as you go: the strategy first, then up to two tags, a “+N” when there are more (hover to see them all) and a small note icon when the trade has a note. One look down that column tells you whether the day is fully reviewed.
Every mistake you tag also feeds Ghost Mode, which recalculates your numbers without those trades — the most direct answer to “what are my mistakes costing me?”. It only works if the tags are there. On the strategy side, our Playbook guide explains how linking trades turns your setups into a measurable edge.
Did a trade go exactly by the book? Click the shield at the start of its row to save it as an A+ example. It joins your Playbook as a reference for what “right” looks like.
Step 5 · One note, then plan tomorrow
Finish with question five: the lesson. Write it in the Notes tab of the trade that taught it — the one you would show a mentor. One or two sentences are enough. Journal → Trading Notes lists every trade with its note, or the ones still pending, and lets you search them, so your lessons stay in one place instead of scattered across trades.
Then turn the lesson into tomorrow’s plan while it is fresh. Open the Session Plan tab, pick tomorrow’s date and write down what you will trade, what you will avoid and the levels you care about. Our Session Plan guide walks through it step by step.
Zoom out: the week and the month
Daily reviews add up. The Filter reviews box in Daily Review lets you pick any trading day and switch the period between Day, Week and Month. Pick a date, switch to Week, and you get that week’s days stacked, each one already reviewed — the weekly review becomes a read-through instead of a reconstruction. View all days takes you back to the full list.
Prefer the Calendar? Click any day there to open the same day summary and trade log.
The 5-minute routine
Here is the whole review as a routine you can copy. Give it a fixed moment — right after the session, or before the next one — and keep it short enough that you never skip it.
- Minute 1 — Click My day. Read the day result and the shape of the curve.
- Minute 2 — Open the first trade in the side panel and move through the day with the arrows.
- Minute 3 — Classify each trade: strategy, setup and any mistake.
- Minute 4 — Save your A+ trade if there was one, and write one note on the trade that taught you the most.
- Minute 5 — Plan tomorrow in the Session Plan.
Five minutes, every trading day. On any single day it won’t feel like much — that is the point. The value shows up a few weeks later, when your mistakes have names, your best trades have examples and your weekly review takes minutes instead of an evening.