18 August 2026 · Niran Chaiyaporn

One weekly page beats another indicator

Sunday review in this room is one page — trades taken, trades skipped, and whether the written plan was the thing you followed.

A single notebook page and a pencil on a lacquered desk in warm lamp light

The Sunday page is the least decorative part of a technical analysis trading plan, and it is the part that tells us whether the plan is alive. It is one sheet. It has four headings and no room for a fifth.

Trades taken. For each one: the setup name from the plan, whether the invalidation was in place before the order, and the result in R or in baht. If the setup name is not one of the names in the plan, write “outside the plan” and stop explaining it.

Trades skipped. This is the heading people leave blank, then wonder why the week feels busy. A skipped setup is evidence. The level was there, the sentence was there, and you did not take it. Write one line on why. “I was in a meeting” is a complete reason. It also tells you that the plan’s session hours may be a fantasy.

Obedience. Not as a moral score. A yes or no on whether the week’s orders matched the page, plus one sentence on the moment you wanted to improvise. That moment is the most useful line on the sheet. It is usually where the plan is either too vague or too strict for the hours you keep.

One chart observation. A single thing the higher timeframe did that your marks did or did not catch. Leave new indicators off this page. If the observation depends on a moving average or a level the plan never names, it waits on a scrap list until you revise the plan. That revision is a different Sunday.

Twenty minutes is the time we suggest. Longer reviews become research projects, and research projects are how a four-page plan becomes a binder. If you cannot finish the page in twenty minutes, the plan has too many setups or you are recording the wrong facts.

Students sometimes ask for a spreadsheet. Use one if you already like them. The room still wants the four headings, in words, because a column of prices does not show whether you followed the invalidation. Malee will not annotate a file that has results and no sentences.

The page is also how we decide, months later, whether a setup deserves to stay. A setup with many “outside the plan” neighbours and no clean examples is a hobby, not a rule. Retire it on purpose, on a Sunday, rather than letting it fade while a new idea takes its place without a name.

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