Pre-Session Checklist
A checklist isn’t there to teach anything new, everything on it should already be understood, it’s there to make sure something known doesn’t get skipped on the one day attention is somewhere else. Why a checklist beats memory under pressure Pilots and surgeons run checklists not because they don’t know the steps, but because a step that’s completely obvious on a calm day gets skipped in a way that’s invisible until the consequence shows up, and it’s always the person most confident they’d never forget who forgets it. Trading has the same structure: a rule so basic it feels beneath writing down is the kind of rule that quietly gets missed on a rushed morning. ...