Client stories
Specific notes from traders who brought their journals for event-driven review — including where the process felt demanding.
“They flagged that I kept adding size into the first fifteen minutes after FOMC releases — something I had written off as ‘conviction’. The next two meetings I waited. That alone paid for the session.”
Marcus Hale · FTSE and index futures · Manchester · Event-Driven Journal Review
“I already annotated my own charts. What I lacked was someone willing to say the Bank of England week pattern was not bad luck. The written brief was short, which I liked — no filler paragraphs.”
Priya Nair · UK equities · Leeds · Event-Driven Journal Review
“The pre-event briefing before CPI week was useful, though I wished we had another fifteen minutes for my FX book. Still, the size constraints we agreed stopped me from doubling into the second print.”
Tom Ellery · Cable and euro · Bristol · Pre-Event Briefing
“Weekly coaching kept me honest about tagging headlines the same day. By week three I was doing most of the overlay myself; they mainly caught the places I was generous with my own excuses.”
Hannah Crowe · Single-name options · Edinburgh · Weekly Journal Coaching
Extended note: earnings week, mid-cap long
A Leeds-based trader brought three weeks of notes covering a mid-cap long held through an earnings print. The journal showed a planned add-on if the stock held a level after the call. In the session we placed the add beside the actual tape: the add happened twelve minutes after a peer company guided down, not after the trader’s level confirmation. The carry-forward note asked for a hard rule — no adds within thirty minutes of any same-sector surprise — which the trader adopted for the following month.
Outcome: two subsequent earnings weeks without the same add; one scratch that would previously have become a larger loss. The work was journal discipline, not a new indicator.
Extended note: CPI and a fading fade
A remote client trading US index futures kept fading the first spike after CPI. The Event-Driven Journal Review lined six consecutive prints: four faded successfully, two did not, and both losers shared the same journal note — “felt late, still took it.” The brief did not ban fades; it required a written timestamp check against the release clock before size was committed. The mild reservation from the client afterward: “It slowed me down on good days too.” That trade-off was intentional.