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Trade Autopsy turns a closed trade into a written record — what you did, in what order, what it cost, and which habits keep showing up.
Trade Autopsy is included on Starter and above, with no monthly cap. Run one on every closed trade if you like. See the plan comparison.
The Trade Autopsy overview showing entry quality, exit discipline and risk management scores, a recent autopsies table, a mistake patterns panel, and a pre-flight checklist

The Overview tab: your three scores, the trades you have logged, the patterns that keep repeating, and your pre-flight card.

What an autopsy is

A structured post-mortem of one closed trade. You give Tradion what happened; it returns a report with the same fixed sections every time — a reconstructed timeline, a breakdown of what the result is attributable to, three 0–100 scores, alternative versions of the trade, and one rule to carry forward.

In plain English

One report tells you about one trade, and markets are noisy enough that a single sample proves little. Ten reports in an identical format are what make a repeated mistake visible. The report keeps process and outcome apart on purpose. A win taken on a broken process and a loss taken correctly look nothing alike, and the report grades both so you can see when the two disagree.

The five tabs

Getting trades in

Four routes, and you’ll probably use all of them.

Narrative

Type what happened. Tradion pulls the facts out of it.

Quick Facts

A form. Fastest when you have the numbers to hand.

Upload File

A screenshot or PDF of a broker confirmation.

Import from your broker

Closed trades rebuilt from your account history.

Running your first autopsy

1

Open Trade Autopsy and click New Autopsy

Pick Manual Entry to type or upload, or From Brokerage to work from an imported trade.
2

Describe the trade

A few sentences is enough: the ticker, why you entered, what your plan was, what you did, and how you felt. That last part matters more than it sounds — logging a trade explains why.
3

Answer the follow-up questions

Tradion asks 3–5 multiple-choice questions about the parts it couldn’t determine — usually your stop, your sizing, and your state of mind. Each has an Other option.
4

Read the report

Roughly 30–60 seconds later. Reading an autopsy walks through every section.
5

Save the lesson

Every report ends with one rule. Save to Playbook puts it somewhere you’ll see it again.
The trade and its report are both saved. The report appears under Autopsies, and the trade under Trade Log.

How patterns emerge

Each report tags the trade with the mistakes it found, and those tags are what patterns are built from. Nothing is learning here — Tradion groups identical tags, counts, and ranks them. Once a tag appears on more than one losing trade it becomes a pattern, carrying how often it happened, what those trades lost in total, and a severity score from 0 to 100.

How severity is scored

Two parts, added together.
  • How often it happens is worth up to 60 points, measured against every trade you have reviewed. A tag on every reviewed trade takes all 60; a tag on a tenth of them takes 6.
  • What it costs is worth up to 40 points, measured against your most expensive pattern. Your costliest pattern takes all 40; one that has cost half as much takes 20.
A pattern near 100 is both frequent and expensive. One near 20 is rare, cheap, or both. Tradion saves a copy of your patterns daily, which is how it can also say which way one is heading. It will not call a pattern improving or worsening until it holds five of those copies spanning 30 days or more; before that it reports insufficient data.

Why roughly ten trades

Ten is where several things switch on at once:
  • Below about 10 autopsies, Tradion won’t calculate a direction on your scores — there isn’t enough to split into a “before” and an “after”.
  • Session analysis needs 5 trades in a given part of the day before showing a win rate for that window.
  • At 20 autopsies, trend arrows and score changes appear, and Tradion Memory moves from low to moderate confidence.
Below ten, the reports are about individual trades. Above ten, they start being about you.
Autopsy your winners too. A winning trade with a poor process score is the most useful thing this tool finds, because it’s the one you’d never have questioned.

Log your first trade

The three intake modes, and what to write.

Reading an autopsy

Every section of the report and what to do with it.