Reflection 7: Practice and Urgency Assessment · Learn Prop Firm Day Trading

Reflection 7: Practice and Urgency Assessment

Practice and Urgency Assessment

Instructions

Answer from your actual behavior over the last 30–60 trading days. Do not answer from the version of yourself you intend to become or the answer that sounds most disciplined. Many questions cover the same habits in different wording. Choose the option closest to what has been happening.

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1️⃣ Before the open, how often is there one narrow thing you have decided to work on that day?

A. Almost never; I just trade.

B. Some days I have a general intention.

C. Most days I pick something, but it is usually broad.

D. Nearly every day there is one specific, gradable focus.

2️⃣ At the end of a session, what typically happens to whatever goal you set?

A. It is forgotten.

B. I think about it for a minute.

C. I make a mental note of how it went.

D. I write a short grade against it the same day.

3️⃣ During live market hours, where is your phone usually?

A. In hand or face-up on the desk.

B. Nearby and checked when things slow down.

C. Face-down or in a pocket but still reachable.

D. In another room or fully out of reach for the session.

4️⃣ On a day with very few clean setups, what do you actually do with most of the time?

A. Scroll, switch tabs, or step away.

B. Stay at the screens and wait.

C. Do a little review if I feel like it.

D. Switch to a pre-planned non-live task (past trades, backtest, playbook).

5️⃣ What usually gets done on a typical weekend regarding trading?

A. Nothing structured.

B. Some casual chart looking.

C. Review only if I have leftover energy.

D. Protected time for work that cannot happen during market hours.

6️⃣ Which pattern is closest to how improvement actually occurs for you right now?

A. I put in screen time and hope it adds up.

B. I have ideas about what to work on but rarely measure them.

C. I set intentions and sometimes look back.

D. Most sessions have one defined focus that gets graded the same day.

7️⃣ How often do you explicitly weigh the time you are spending on trading against other uses of that time?

A. Essentially never.

B. Only when results are bad.

C. Occasionally in a general way.

D. It shapes how I structure both market and non-market hours.

8️⃣ What timeline are you actually operating on for developing competency?

A. I am looking for clear progress inside a few months.

B. I tell myself it takes time but keep checking for faster results.

C. I have a loose longer horizon but no real plan around it.

D. I have accepted a minimum two-year frame and plan the work accordingly.

9️⃣ When the tape is slow, what is the most common thing on your other screens?

A. Social media, news, or random sites.

B. Nothing in particular; I just wait.

C. Trading-related material I open when bored.

D. A specific study or review task I decided on before the session.

🔟 How many trading days in the last month ended with a written grade on a single daily goal?

A. Zero or one.

B. A handful.

C. Roughly half.

D. Nearly all of them.

1️⃣1️⃣ How often do non-trading notifications or tabs pull your attention while the market is open?

A. Multiple times most sessions.

B. Several times a week.

C. Occasionally, then I close them.

D. Rarely, because they are structurally blocked.

1️⃣2️⃣ After a quiet week, what changes in your non-live work?

A. I do less until things pick up.

B. Nothing changes.

C. I do a bit more review if motivated.

D. I deliberately increase playbook or backtesting time.

1️⃣3️⃣ How easy is it to tell, at the end of the day, whether you succeeded at the one thing you said you would work on?

A. There usually is no single thing.

B. The goal is too vague to judge clearly.

C. I can roughly tell.

D. The goal is narrow enough that a yes/no or simple grade is obvious.

1️⃣4️⃣ What happens to evenings or weekends that could be used for trading development?

A. They stay open and mostly get filled by other things.

B. I use some of them when it is convenient.

C. I intend to protect blocks but they often get interrupted.

D. Specific blocks are already scheduled for report cards, reviews, or playbook work.

1️⃣5️⃣ On days you do set a goal, how often is it both written down beforehand and graded afterward?

A. Almost never both.

B. Sometimes one or the other.

C. Both on some days.

D. Both on the large majority of days I trade.

1️⃣6️⃣ When you notice yourself reaching for the phone or opening a non-trading tab during market hours, what usually follows?

A. I continue for a while.

B. I feel a brief pull to stop but often don’t.

C. I close it after a minute or two.

D. The setup makes the reach rare in the first place.

1️⃣7️⃣ How has your expectation of the time required changed over the past year?

A. I still expect faster results than I am getting.

B. I say it takes years but my daily behavior looks short-term.

C. I have lengthened the horizon somewhat.

D. I have explicitly reset to a multi-year frame and adjusted the work rate.

1️⃣8️⃣ During low-opportunity periods, where does the majority of your trading-related effort actually go?

A. Consuming content or waiting.

B. Light observation.

C. Mixed review and downtime.

D. Active work on past trades, new setup research, or backtesting.

1️⃣9️⃣ In the last 20 trading days, on how many did you have one pre-set goal and a same-day written grade?

A. 0–3

B. 4–8

C. 9–14

D. 15–20

2️⃣0️⃣ As someone with limited market hours, what does a normal weekend actually contain?

A. No protected trading-development time.

B. Whatever review happens to fit.

C. Some intentional work that often gets shortened.

D. Scheduled blocks reserved for the tasks market hours cannot cover.

2️⃣1️⃣ How often is the daily focus something you could explain to another trader in one sentence and later grade?

A. Rarely that clear.

B. Sometimes clear, often fuzzy.

C. Usually clear enough.

D. Almost always narrow and gradable.

2️⃣2️⃣ What is the usual state of your desk and screens once the market is open?

A. Phone out, multiple unrelated tabs.

B. Mostly trading screens but phone still active.

C. Clean most of the time with occasional slips.

D. Non-essential inputs removed before the open and kept that way.

2️⃣3️⃣ When volatility drops for several days, what do you add?

A. Nothing; I wait it out.

B. More screen time watching.

C. Extra content consumption.

D. Extra structured study or backtesting hours.

2️⃣4️⃣ How many of the last four weekends included at least one protected block for trading development work?

A. Zero

B. One

C. Two

D. Three or four

2️⃣5️⃣ Which is closer to your real feedback loop right now?

A. End-of-week feelings about how it went.

B. Occasional mental review of specific trades.

C. Notes on some days without a consistent grade.

D. Same-day grade against one pre-chosen focus on most days.

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Reflection 7: Practice and Urgency Assessment