Journal
Write the trade review from the decision candle backward
The result tugs the pen
People who come to the journal clinic can usually describe a win in generous detail and a loss as a failure of discipline. Both versions are written after the outcome is known. The candle they actually decided on gets rebuilt to match the ending.
Mali starts the page at the decision candle and will not let the result onto the sheet until four lines are done. The habit feels slow in the first week. That slowness is the work.
The four lines
Line one names the decision candle: timeframe, and whether you were entering or exiting. Line two is the first indicator that was already on your chart, in the words you would have used that day. Line three is the second indicator, same rule. Line four is a plain statement: agreed, conflicted, or unfinished.
Only then do you write what the trade did. If line four says conflicted and the trade paid, the page is allowed to hold both facts. The clinic does not ask you to sour a win or soften a loss. It asks you to stop editing the chart you had.
What usually changes by the fourth sitting
The pages get shorter. People stop explaining the whole week and start pointing at the candle. A common discovery is that the second indicator was added after the trade, then written into the journal as if it had been there. Those reviews are recopied once, with the late indicator left off.
The four-line page is the same one used between clinic sittings. If you want the hour that goes with it, the Trade Journal Clinic is the place. The evening workshop uses a single four-line page as practice, not as a month of rewriting.