Log the trades. Review the day.
You log each trade as you take it, then run a short review after the close. Everything else in Praxis is built from these two habits.
Logging a trade
When you take a trade, log it from + Trade on the review page (or open it
directly at /review/trade). One row per trade. The form has four parts, and you only
fill what applies. You are not grading yourself — you record what you did, and the rules are derived from your answers (see the method & playbook).
Setup
The entry itself. Did you wait for the inversion candle to close, or chase the unconfirmed move? Which direction, which session window, which confluences were present, and the level you took. The window and the wait are rule inputs; direction is tracked on every trade, and graded too if your playbook commits to a single side (otherwise it's tracked, not constrained).
Management
Five yes/no questions about how you handled the position: the stop held and was never moved toward risk; you stayed flat with no adds or averaging; the exit followed your prescribed split; you took TP1 as a market order at the level; the runner was moved to break-even or better. These are the rules most likely to decide whether the trade was clean.
Price action
How price treated the swept level, and the shape of the move. These are awareness only — they are never graded. They sit beside the conduct so a pattern can surface later, nothing more.
Risk
Your stop in points and the contracts you took, then the result: realized P&L, the worst your open position went against you (MAE), and the best it showed before you closed (MFE). All of this is recorded for context and never scored — the risk you took is already judged by your risk rules; these numbers just keep the record honest and show the shape of the trade.
The evening review
After the close, open Review. It leads with the day's Conduct — the verdict word plus the 0–100 execution score, rolled up from the trades you logged, not re-asked — and the day's trades in a table. Two whole-day risk readings are yours to enter by hand here: the worst point from the day's open, and the max intraday drawdown. Both are context, never scored. The rest of the review is below.
What pulled at you
A quick read on the day's pressure: did something pull you to force a trade, overtrade, or prove a point — and how strong was it? This is awareness. It feeds the slow identity signal, not today's score, so an honest answer never costs you anything.
The day you sat out
On a day you didn't trade, the review asks whether you passed a real setup or the tape was simply dead, with room to note what the setup was. Passing a setup you could have forced is the harder rep — it is recorded as the win it is, but it is not a score input. A clean day with no trades breaks no rules, so it scores as a clean day. Patience counts as practice.
End-of-day checks
Two things only you know, answered yes or no: did you run one system start to finish, and did you walk away without buying a new account? These are the two self-reported day-level Critical rules — the breaches that end accounts — so they are the one part of scoring you answer by hand. A third day-level Critical, the daily trade cap, is checked for you from the trades you logged, not asked.
Loss quality
A good loss followed the plan and simply lost; a bad loss broke a rule on the way down. Praxis treats a planned loss as clean execution, because it is. This is the distinction that lets a red day be a good day.
How it felt
A short felt mark: would you be proud of your execution? This is the one felt signal that touches the score — a 4 or 5 adds three points. Everything else you mark is awareness only.
Felt scales are skippable by design. A blank means "no signal today" and is treated as exactly that — never counted as a zero.
Repair
The hardest question: at any point, did the day stop being about executing your edge and start being about fixing something — the loss, being right, this morning's mistake? You mark how far it went, what you were repairing, and what opened the door. Feeling the pull and containing it (a 2 or 3) is a win; the behavioral line sits at 4. Repair answers never touch your score — the behaviors that follow repair are already judged by your rules. The question exists so the pattern gets named while it is still a pattern.
Reflections
The review closes with short written notes: what you did well, what caused any mistakes, the single most important lesson, whether you would take the same trades again, an optional note on what you felt and why, one strength to repeat, and the focus for tomorrow. Some of these resurface weeks later in a Sunday letter. Write them for the person who will read them then.