There is a pun and it is intended. My system, if it can be called that, is triggered by bursts of Cumulative Delta energy agreeing with price; my trades are triggered by my own inability to control my mental energy - with commensurate results.
I have made and continue to make (although reducing) all of the well documented errors: only having a vague plan, entering when nothing is happening, entering early, entering late, revenge trading, FOMO, holding losers too long and closing winners too early. Oh, and constantly tweaking systems to find the holy grail. I'm sure I've missed some, but you know what I mean.
Having realised some time ago that the problem was me, but not acted, this next phase is me acting. Key moment watching a recent FT71 video from Convergent about the different way professional and retail traders develop - I like his question "what did you do to win the day" (misquoted I'm sure), which I took to mean what steps have I taken today that will ensure that today is somehow better than yesterday (trading wise, of course). This journal is my first answer to that.
So, if you are a regular on this site you may have noticed me spamming the system (apologies) with all my stuff. The reason for that is two-fold: one, it may actually be useful to someone, but also I wanted to publish my thinking before I started this thread. (And I haven't splurged all my stuff - boy have I written a lot of code over the last three years - just the stuff I really think has value).