Your edge is in your process, not just in your trades

Most traders know what to do. Strebell helps you actually do it, every day, and shows you what it's worth.

You know what to do. You just don't always do it.

This is what traders tell us most. Maybe you recognise yourself.

“I have rules, but I don't follow them.”

In the moment, emotion wins. Strebell shows your playbook checklist while you log, and warns you when you break your own rules.

“I don't know why it isn't working.”

Without clear data you keep switching strategies. Strebell shows which setups, times and conditions make you money and which ones cost you.

“My data is in a spreadsheet, but I can't do anything with it.”

Separate columns don't connect the dots. Strebell combines your trades with your sleep, mindset, plan and events, without you building a single formula.

Strebell doesn't promise profits. It gives you structure, honest data and insights you can actually act on.

Not one trade, but your whole process

Strebell starts earlier and ends later than a regular journal. Every step of your routine has its own place, and everything you capture along the way comes together into the picture of your best edge.

1Day journal2Plan trades3Log the trade4Review while logging5Close the day6Plan the new week

Your feeling, in the moment

We deliberately don't import trades. You can only capture exactly how you felt while you're doing it; afterwards, the outcome colours your memory. That's why you log and review every trade as you enter it.

Everything that shapes your week

News, earnings and private appointments affect how you trade. You plan them into your new week, and they are part of the search for your best edge and your ideal trading style.

Every field becomes one edge

Mindset, plan, setup, time of day, execution, review and events are combined. So you see exactly when and how you trade best: more of what makes money, less of what costs you.

Mindset
Trade plan
Setup and playbook
Execution
Review
News and earnings
Private appointments

Your edge

Your best-performing setups
The moments you're sharpest
The conditions that cost you money
Your ideal trading style

What science says about mindset and trading

Peer-reviewed studies on emotion, stress, sleep, planning and keeping a journal.

From the study

“…subjects whose emotional reaction to monetary gains and losses was more intense on both the positive and negative side … exhibited significantly worse trading performance.”

What it means: In 80 day traders followed for five weeks, those who reacted most strongly to wins and losses performed worst. Not just fear: big highs hurt too.

Lo, A. W., Repin, D. V., & Steenbarger, B. N. (2005). Fear and Greed in Financial Markets: A Clinical Study of Day-Traders. American Economic Review, 95(2), 352–359. Read the original

From the study

“We conclude that emotions and their regulation play a central role in traders' decision making.”

What it means: Interviews with traders at four London investment banks: the better performers managed their emotions before they arose, for example by preparing, rather than suppressing them afterwards.

Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Soane, E., Nicholson, N., & Willman, P. (2011). Thinking, feeling and deciding: the influence of emotions on the decision making and performance of traders. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32(8), 1044–1061. Read the original

From the study

“…progress monitoring had larger effects on goal attainment when the outcomes were reported or made public, and when the information was physically recorded.”

What it means: A meta-analysis of experimental studies: keeping track of your progress helps you reach your goals, and writing it down works better than just thinking about it. That is what a journal is.

Harkin, B., Webb, T. L., Chang, B. P. I., Prestwich, A., Conner, M., Kellar, I., Benn, Y., & Sheeran, P. (2016). Does Monitoring Goal Progress Promote Goal Attainment? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 142(2), 198–229. Read the original

From the study

“Findings from 94 independent tests showed that implementation intentions had a positive effect of medium-to-large magnitude (d = .65) on goal attainment.”

What it means: Deciding in advance 'if X happens, I do Y' clearly increases the chance you follow through. A trade plan with a trigger, stop and 'skip if' conditions is exactly such a plan.

Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69–119. Read the original

Quotes are verbatim from the original abstracts; an ellipsis (…) marks a shortened sentence. The explanations are our own summary. Research shows patterns in groups of people, not a guarantee for one trader.

See all 7 studies

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