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What is plan adherence?

The share of your closed trades where you held as long as you originally planned — based on the intended hold you set at entry.

Definition

The share of your closed trades where you held as long as you originally planned — based on the intended hold you set at entry.

Plan adherence, explained

When you open a position you can set an intended hold — how long you mean to stay in. Plan adherence is the share of your closed trades where you actually held that long. It turns “I keep cutting winners early” from a feeling into a number you can watch move.

Where plan adherence shows up in a journal

A trading journal is where this stops being a definition and becomes your own number. sizeforzero computes it from the trades you import or log, alongside the rest of your analytics vocabulary, and every figure in the app carries an (i) that explains it in the same plain English you just read.

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