Most day traders obsess over price action and entries - but the real breakthroughs happen when you start analyzing your own performance. In this article, we’ll walk you through seven powerful insights that can instantly highlight where your trading is working, where it’s falling apart, and how to fix it. These aren’t vague tips—they’re data-backed discoveries we see again and again in our Edgewonk journal reviews. Whether you’re Trading stocks , futures, forex, or crypto, this guide will show you how to cut screen time, improve results, and build discipline—one trade at a time. 

1. WHEN DO YOU MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR MONEY?

Day traders typically thrive on volatility. And volatility reliably kicks in around the market open or around news releases, whereas before the open or a big news release, price often just meanders and goes nowhere.

In our review we often see this pattern – a trader is quite profitable around open – but then loses momentum later into the session, giving back all profits.

This is not bad news; this is great news. You can trade less, have less screen time and improve your results!

And it does not matter whether you trade the stock market, the futures, crypto or the forex market – this is a pattern that is true for all traders!

2.MOST PROFITABLE TRADIN STRATEGIES

Especially newer traders struggle with trading too many setups. In our reviews, we have seen time and again that many traders trade 7, 8, or even more trading strategy at the same time. This typically leads to inconsistencies, confusion, and underperformance.

The best traders we have seen trade a maximum of three strategies simultaneously. This allows them to fully understand the nuances of the setups, reduce noise, miss fewer trades, and overall improve the quality of their trading.