Trading Matrix

Most traders close the week the same way they started it. With their feelings in the driver seat.
A good week produces satisfaction, confidence, and a general sense that the work is going well. A bad week produces frustration, self-doubt, and the nagging thought that something needs to change. Both of these are understandable. Neither of them is a useful input for improving performance, because feelings respond to outcomes and outcomes are only half the story.
The close-of-week review that actually teaches something looks at the trades you took this week against the plan you set at the start of it. How many trades followed your criteria exactly. How many were modifications or impulses. What was the P&L of the plan-adherent trades versus the modified ones. Were there setups you identified but did not take, and if so, why. What was the actual edge you expressed this week versus the potential edge available.
This is different from reviewing the P&L. The P&L tells you what happened. The process review tells you what your behavior produced and whether that behavior is repeatable. A profitable week that came from two outlier trades and four overrides of your plan is not a good week. It is a lucky week that built the wrong habits. A flat week where you executed every trade perfectly and the setups simply did not deliver is a good week that will pay out over a longer sample.
The distinction is only visible if you are tracking the data. Feelings cannot see it. They only see green and red.
Close the week with your process, not your mood. The data will tell you more than your emotions ever will.