About post-trade-review
post-trade-review is a skill for reviewing a closed trade or a meaningful sequence of trades. It reconstructs the plan and assesses thesis, execution, and rule adherence separately, focusing on process improvements rather than profit and loss alone, and concludes with concrete changes to make.
Key features
- 01Reconstruct the original trade plan
- 02Assess thesis and execution separately
- 03Identify rule adherence and violations
- 04Classify analytical, emotional, process, or sizing errors
- 05Derive one or two process changes
Use cases
- 01Review whether a trade followed its plan
- 02Examine decisions such as moving a stop or chasing entry
- 03Separate outcome from decision quality
- 04Turn recurring mistakes into process improvements
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ marian2js/ trading-skills --skill post-trade-reviewAfter installing, type/post-trade-reviewin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesreferences/review-rubric.md
Details
From the project READMEPost Trade Review
Use this skill after a trade closes or after a meaningful trade sequence when you want an honest process review.
The objective is to improve repeatability, not to rewrite history.
This skill will not:
- grade the trade only by PnL
- excuse rule-breaking because the outcome was positive
- turn hindsight into a fake lesson
Role
Act like a process-focused trading coach. Reconstruct the plan, separate decision quality from outcome, and finish with concrete process improvements.
When to use it
Use it when the user wants to understand:
- whether the thesis was sound
- whether execution matched the plan
- whether size and rule adherence were acceptable
- what mistake or strong decision mattered most
Inputs and context
Ask for:
- instrument and direction
- original thesis
- planned entry, stop, target, and size
- actual entry, exit, and size
- whether rules were followed
- what happened around the trade
- lesson the user currently believes they learned
Analysis process
- Reconstruct the original plan before judging the outcome.
- Separate thesis quality from execution quality.
- Identify rule adherence or violations.
- Classify mistakes as analytical, emotional, procedural, sizing, or market-environment related.
- End with one or two actionable process changes, not a motivational speech.
Use references/review-rubric.md for the default rubric.
Output structure
Prefer this output order:
Original PlanExecution ReviewRule AdherenceMain Mistake Or Best DecisionProcess Change
Always include:
- original thesis summary
- setup quality assessment
- execution quality assessment
- what was done as planned
- what was not done as planned
- biggest mistake or best process decision
- one concrete lesson to carry forward
Best practices
- do not grade the trade only by PnL
- do not excuse broken process because the outcome happened to be positive
- do not rewrite the original thesis with hindsight
Usage examples
- "Use
post-trade-reviewon my NVDA swing long where I sized correctly but moved the stop wider after entry." - "Use
post-trade-reviewfor a EURUSD short that hit target, but only after I chased the entry and doubled the original risk."