stop loss discipline auditor

The problem

Traders often struggle with stop-loss discipline, frequently widening stops or removing them entirely during a trade. Manual auditing of trading journals is tedious and prone to bias, making it difficult to spot recurring risk management failures.

What it does

• Detects stop-loss modifications that widen risk or violate pre-defined rules.
• Flags trades with missing or ambiguous price invalidation levels before entry.
• Calculates real-time risk-per-trade (R) and identifies oversized positions exceeding equity limits.
• Identifies and groups recurring stop-management patterns across multiple journal entries.
• Generates structured markdown audit reports with pass/fail statuses and specific corrective actions.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

This skill handles the complex math of risk-per-trade calculations while strictly enforcing logic to distinguish between valid trailing stops and prohibited risk widening. It automates the extraction of key data points from messy journal text to ensure no violation is missed due to human oversight.

Use cases

• Reviewing weekly trading logs to identify behavioral risk patterns.
• Evaluating funded account or prop firm challenge performance for compliance.
• Auditing trading student journals to provide objective feedback on discipline.

Known limitations

Requires numerical data for entry, stop, and account size to calculate risk percentages. If risk limits are not specified, it defaults to a 1% risk-per-trade assumption.