My weekly data review, and what I stopped including
Started as a huge spreadsheet. Now it's four things, because everything else I looked at once and never acted on:
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Jun 2026
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still keeping a paper log after all these years
Been at this since before you could pull a quote without calling somebody. Figured I'd share how I actually use data day to day, since I see a lot of folks…
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Jul 2026
Do you look at your data during the session, or only after?
I've moved almost entirely to after. Watching live data made me feel informed, but what I was actually doing was generating opinions faster than I could ev…
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Jun 2026
How far back does your data actually need to go?
Short question. Is there a point where older data stops helping because the market has changed too much, or is more always better?
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Jul 2026
The data you have shapes the strategies you can imagine
An underrated constraint. If all you've ever seen is daily bars, you will invent daily-bar strategies, and the space of ideas available to you is quietly b…
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Jul 2026
Keep the raw data, always
Whatever processing you do, keep the original. Not because you'll need it. Because you will eventually discover a bug in the processing, and without the ra…
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Jul 2026
check your data before you blame your strategy
bad week, went looking for what changed in my logic. nothing had. what changed was that a chunk of my session had thinner data than usual and my averages w…
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Jun 2026
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Jul 2026
i stopped trusting single-exchange candles and it fixed a lot
ok so this is more of a data hygiene rant than a strategy post but bear with me.
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Jul 2026
i stopped trusting pre-market volume numbers
been doing this a long time. used to scalp opens, now i mostly sit on gap setups and wait.
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Jun 2026
my funding + oi checklist before i touch any perp
ok so i've been trying to be less of a chart goblin and more of a data goblin this year. figured i'd dump my little pre-trade routine here and see what eve…
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Jul 2026