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Image 1 — Disciplined skips are better than hoping and praying - Finally breaking out of the Impulsive vicious cycle trying to pass prop firms
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Disciplined skips are better than hoping and praying - Finally breaking out of the Impulsive vicious cycle trying to pass prop firms

Just an example today on EU - I am one trade away from passing my funded next 50k account... Normally I would have entered this trade to try and pass and end up failing or getting lucky (: Which is what we all don't want as Traders...

Instead this time I Opted to not take the trade and wow it felt good to finally feel like a Disciplined Trader. I was doing my pre trade audit and realised that the idea does not meet my rules at all... so this stopped me and made me think like I do not need to take this trade... I do not want to be a gambler.. I want to be a disciplined trader. So I didn't take it... I took the disciplined skip and I felt so rewarded skipping a bad trade it feels good man. Finally breaking out of the shackles of impulsive trading :)

u/Salty-Leopard-3481 — 3 days ago
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What would actually make you stop breaking your trading rules?? People always say to be disciplined and don't break your rules..

If you are someone who does break their rules and cant help it ... what would actually stop you from breaking your rules? Is it accountability ? Some sort of blocker? something psychological ? Genuinely curious here?

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u/Salty-Leopard-3481 — 6 days ago

[Software Sunday] I built a behavioural execution tool because journals never stopped me from making the same mistake twice

Full disclosure up front: I built this. It's called Discipline Standard. Posting because it's Software Sunday and I genuinely want eyes + brutal feedback from this sub.

Quick context on why this exists:

I journaled for years. Tradervue, Edgewonk, Notion, a spreadsheet, all of it. Every Sunday I'd review the week, nod sagely at my own mistakes, and then do the exact same thing on Monday at 9:32am. Moved stops. Sized up after a loss. Took the B-setup because I was bored. Classic.

The problem with journals is they're backward-looking (Still great but just not what 90% of traders need including me). You log what already happened. The damage is already done. What I actually needed was something that interrupted me before the click, not something that explained the loss after.

So I built it. Discipline Standard isn't a journal. It's a behavioral execution system that runs alongside your trading day. Ten checkpoints, from pre-market open to end-of-session reflection, each one designed to make impulsive trades physically annoying to take and disciplined ones easy. Be rewarded discipline points for sticking to your rules / be rewarded for NOT taking bad trades (disciplined skips) Disciplined skips are very important here mentally it helps the Trader know they are getting rewarded by NOT breaking their rules. Lose points for taking misaligned trades or skipping on aligned setups. Pure psychology here and it works for me and others who have tried.

The core idea: score behavior, not P&L. A flawless loss is still a +1. A revenge win is still a -5. Over a few weeks the score becomes brutally honest about how you actually trade vs how you tell yourself you trade.

What it actually does (5 second version):

  1. You codify your rules once. Entry, exit, risk, setups. Out of your head, into the system.
  2. Pre-market: log your thesis, key levels, mental state. Commit before price moves.
  3. Pre-trade audit: every entry runs through your rules. Things that fail get flagged before you click buy.
  4. Execution gate: if the setup doesn't pass, friction is added. You can override, but you'll see exactly what rule you broke.
  5. Mid-trade + post-trade: emotional state captured, rule-breaks logged live (moved stops, early exits, revenge sizing).
  6. End of day: cinematic session replay. Watch your day back as a timeline of decisions, not just trades. (This gives you your full day in one area not just post trade but pre market, pre trade, mid trade, post trade and all the details in between) (I will be upgrading this to weekly, monthly quarterly, and yearly session replays too)

Then analytics tells you stuff like*"you lose 80% of the trades you take after a loss within 15 minutes"* — and you can't unsee it.

Screenshots below. The session replay is very cool and I will add them at the start :) Then Dashboard -> Pre market -> pre trade -> Execution gate -> mid trade -> post trade -> Discipline points outcome.

Pricing: $29.99/mo or $269/yr. 14-day free trial, no card up front. I know paid software gets eye-rolls here, so the trial is genuinely no-friction — you can rip through the whole system and bounce if it's not for you.

What's coming in the next few months (genuinely want your input on priority):

  • MT5 / broker integration so trades auto-import instead of manual log
  • Prop firm mode — track discipline against FTMO / Apex / Topstep rules natively, see who passes (spoiler: disciplined traders pass at way higher rates than aggressive ones)
  • Communities + leaderboards by discipline score, not P&L — accountability pairs you can't lie to
  • AI behavioral coach that reads your patterns and tells you when you're drifting

What I'm asking for:

  1. Try it, break it, tell me what's stupid. disciplinestandard.com
  2. If you've used Tradervue / Edgewonk / Chartlog, tell me where this would fail you.
  3. Of the roadmap stuff above — which one would actually make you pay for the annual plan tomorrow?

I'll be in the thread all day answering questions and DMs are open. Mods, if I've crossed a Software Sunday line let me know and I'll edit.

Cheers, and good luck this week.

Not financial advice, obviously. This is a discipline tracking tool, not a signal service. Trading involves risk of loss.

u/Salty-Leopard-3481 — 6 days ago

I got tired of trading journals only tracking P&L, so I built one focused on discipline & emotional execution

Over the last while I’ve been building a platform called Discipline Standard because I realized most of my trading problems had very little to do with strategy and almost everything to do with execution.

Things like:
- revenge trading
- impulsive entries
- overtrading
- hesitation
- emotional spirals after losses
- forcing setups
- completely changing behavior mid-session

Most journals I tried felt heavily focused on spreadsheets, analytics and trade statistics, but the actual psychological side of trading always felt like an afterthought.

So I started building something where the entire trading day feels more like a structured ritual focused on discipline and self-awareness instead of just P&L tracking.

The platform guides traders through the full day:

• Start Session 
Mental readiness check before trading even starts:
- focus
- sleep
- stress
- emotional state
- energy levels
- outside pressure

Because realistically your execution quality changes massively depending on your condition before you even open the charts.

• Pre-Market Outlook 
Market expectations, key levels, HTF bias, charts and discipline focus for the session.

• Pre-Trade Audits 
Before every trade the trader actively reviews:
- alignment with their system
- emotional state
- impulsiveness vs patience
- execution quality
- risk structure
- whether they’re forcing the setup

Trades are then marked as:
- aligned
- misaligned
- emotional
- disciplined
etc

The goal is to make traders consciously aware of HOW they’re executing instead of just whether they won or lost.

• Mid-Session Recalibration 
This part is huge for me because I think most traders lose discipline DURING the session, not before it.

The platform tracks emotional shifts throughout the day and lets traders recalibrate:
- update bias
- reassess conditions
- enter recovery mode
- reduce risk
- preserve composure

The entire environment actually changes depending on trader behavior and execution state.

One thing I’m trying to build differently is the gamification/progression side.

Most trading “gamification” just rewards activity or profit.

I wanted the progression to reinforce discipline instead.

So traders earn points for things like:
- aligned executions
- disciplined no-trade decisions
- emotional recovery
- session completion
- honest reflection
- following process under pressure

And lose integrity for:
- revenge trading
- emotional entries
- rule breaks
- impulsive execution
- forcing setups

There’s also a difference between:
- disciplined skips
- missed aligned trades
- misaligned trades

For example:
Skipping a bad setup intentionally can actually increase discipline integrity because the trader preserved capital and followed their standard.

But missing a valid aligned setup due to hesitation is tracked differently because it’s a separate execution issue.

The platform also tracks:
- “capital protected by discipline”
- avoided emotional setups
- aligned vs misaligned performance
- emotional consistency
- discipline score trends

So instead of only reviewing:
“did I make money?”

the trader starts reviewing:
“did I actually operate according to my standard?”

One of the main features I’m building now is a cinematic “Session Replay” system where traders can replay their full trading day from start to finish almost like revisiting a memory.

Instead of staring at spreadsheets after the session, traders scroll through:
- pre-market outlook
- chart screenshots
- emotional changes
- trade decisions
- recovery moments
- reflections
- mistakes
- execution quality

The atmosphere changes throughout the replay too depending on how the session evolved:
- calm sunrise atmosphere in the morning
- darker/foggy during emotional periods
- clarity returning during recovery
- reflective close at session end

There’s also a progression/rank system tied to discipline integrity and execution quality rather than just profits.

Ranks currently go:
Wanderer → Student → Ronin → Disciplined → Controlled → Shogun → Ghost → Elite → Sovereign

The philosophy behind the whole thing is basically:

A disciplined loss is more valuable than an impulsive win.

Would genuinely love feedback from traders because I’m trying to build something that feels fundamentally different from the usual analytics-heavy journal approach.

Site:
disciplinestandard.com

u/Salty-Leopard-3481 — 13 days ago

Always wondered why Journals were made for just after you take a trade... For me is should start from when you wake up in the morning. How did you sleep? How are you feeling? All of this is important in trading... The next important thing is when you come in front of the charts you want to make sure you as a trader are staying disciplined and have your rules in front of you as a checklist.. A pre-Trade-audit is just as important as a post trade audit (what normal journals have) This way you can avoid the loss instead of just reacting to your loss... (makes more sense to me no?) For the pre trade audit you explain your reasoning and check of your rules and highlight your emotions before the trade. If It aligns with your rules you take it if not you don't! .... Ok say you take it... discipline and journalling shouldnt stop there.. is should continue on because we all know people including ourselves cant help but watch our trade and emotions can come up like fear greed etc... we move stops or close early ... we essentially are breaking our rules here... thats why having a mid-trade-audit is just as important and pre and post... we can write out how we feel mid trade... tag our emotions etc... show if we made any rule breaks... then once the trade is done we can do our post trade 😄 This way we have pre mid and post trade a whole flow per trade in real time rather than just a post trade reflection.... I made this so that if you stay disciplined you get rewarded discipline points for it and the more points the higher your level / the more rewards you get 😄 because everyone needs that extra layer of protection from taking them impulsive trades this gives you an extra reason to not take bad trades! Missed Aligned trades and disciplined skips are also important - think Aligned trade taken = +3 points / Misaligned trade taken = -5 points (you get punished for breaking your rules and you also lose your discipline trade STREAK) / Missed aligned trade = -1 point because you should stick to your rules and take your aligned trades. and then a disciplined skip is +1 point this is when you check your rules and realise wait... this is not aligned I should not take this trade... most of the time people do because of fomo etc but with this system it rewards you for not taking the bad trade so it helps subconsciously.

What do you guys think of the idea? Anyone interested in trying it out let me know 😃

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u/Salty-Leopard-3481 — 23 days ago

Always wondered why Journals were made for just after you take a trade... For me is should start from when you wake up in the morning. How did you sleep? How are you feeling? All of this is important in trading... The next important thing is when you come in front of the charts you want to make sure you as a trader are staying disciplined and have your rules in front of you as a checklist.. A pre-Trade-audit is just as important as a post trade audit (what normal journals have) This way you can avoid the loss instead of just reacting to your loss... (makes more sense to me no?) For the pre trade audit you explain your reasoning and check of your rules and highlight your emotions before the trade. If It aligns with your rules you take it if not you don't! .... Ok say you take it... discipline and journalling shouldnt stop there.. is should continue on because we all know people including ourselves cant help but watch our trade and emotions can come up like fear greed etc... we move stops or close early ... we essentially are breaking our rules here... thats why having a mid-trade-audit is just as important and pre and post... we can write out how we feel mid trade... tag our emotions etc... show if we made any rule breaks... then once the trade is done we can do our post trade 😄 This way we have pre mid and post trade a whole flow per trade in real time rather than just a post trade reflection.... I made this so that if you stay disciplined you get rewarded discipline points for it and the more points the higher your level / the more rewards you get 😄 because everyone needs that extra layer of protection from taking them impulsive trades this gives you an extra reason to not take bad trades! Missed Aligned trades and disciplined skips are also important - think Aligned trade taken = +3 points / Misaligned trade taken = -5 points (you get punished for breaking your rules and you also lose your discipline trade STREAK) / Missed aligned trade = -1 point because you should stick to your rules and take your aligned trades. and then a disciplined skip is +1 point this is when you check your rules and realise wait... this is not aligned I should not take this trade... most of the time people do because of fomo etc but with this system it rewards you for not taking the bad trade so it helps subconsciously.

What do you guys think of the idea? Anyone interested in trying it out let me know 😃

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u/Salty-Leopard-3481 — 23 days ago

Hey guys, built a trading discipline saas project. Have about 30 users singed up so far just wondering if anyone in here has any marketing tips and tricks? Find it hard to Market right now... Thanks!

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u/Salty-Leopard-3481 — 25 days ago

Discipline has always been a hard thing for me to wrap my head around in Trading especially in regards to prop firms and challenges. They are almost set up in a way to challenge our discipline with the 8% or 10% targets... psychologically it was tough on me because I would be one trade away and end up trying to rush it or risking 2% instead of 1% and then end up either blowing the account or back to BE for another few weeks... Its tough seeing how much money / % I missed out on or lost because I either didn't take a trade I should have or took a trade that I shouldn't have by breaking my rules (: Realising then if I just stuck to my rules I would have been funded by now but instead i'm sitting in drawdown... the joys lol.. Told myself I cant feel this pain anymore and made something that makes me stick to my rules and shows me how much I fu**ed up by not following them. Game changer for me and my friends psychologically.. Anyone else know the feeling because I know I was not the only one lol. The feeling of discipline is so freeing, I never wanted to feel that gut wrenching pain from breaking my rules ever again.

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u/Salty-Leopard-3481 — 25 days ago

Discipline has always been a hard thing for me to wrap my head around in Trading especially in regards to prop firms and challenges. They are almost set up in a way to challenge our discipline with the 8% or 10% targets... psychologically it was tough on me because I would be one trade away and end up trying to rush it or risking 2% instead of 1% and then end up either blowing the account or back to BE for another few weeks... Its tough seeing how much money / % I missed out on or lost because I either didn't take a trade I should have or took a trade that I shouldn't have by breaking my rules (: Realising then if I just stuck to my rules I would have been funded by now but instead i'm sitting in drawdown... the joys lol.. Told myself I cant feel this pain anymore and made something that makes me stick to my rules and shows me how much I fu**ed up by not following them. Game changer for me and my friends psychologically.. Anyone else know the feeling because I know I was not the only one lol. The feeling of discipline is so freeing, I never wanted to feel that gut wrenching pain from breaking my rules ever again.

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u/Salty-Leopard-3481 — 25 days ago