Weekly Trading Review & Prep with MRKT

Great traders know success isn’t just about entries and exits, it’s also about the routing of reviewing what took place. What you do at the end of the week? Well on MRKT we go though a series of checklist to make sure we’ve covered everything from the previous week so we are reading to hit the next one..

Unfortunately, most retail traders skip this step. They close their charts on Friday and come back on Monday without clarity. That’s why mistakes repeat, trades feel random, and growth stalls.

With MRKT, you can build a repeatable end-of-week trading checklist that helps you:

Learn from the past week
Identify what moved the market
Prepare for next week’s setups with confidence

Here’s exactly how to do it.

Step 1: Review Major Market Headlines With AI Breakdown
Step 2: Check Institutional Positioning With the COT Report
Step 3: Compare MRKT’s Weekly Bias With Actual Market Moves
Step 4: Analyze Key Economic Data and Macro Drivers
Step 5: Note Upcoming Events for the Week Ahead
Step 6: Save Key Charts, Levels, and Insights for Your Playbook
Final Thoughts: Turn Weekly Review Into a Growth Engine

Step 1: Review Major Market Headlines With AI Breakdown

Since the market doesn’t move randomly, every Friday, you should look back at the biggest headlines of the week:

What drove volatility?
Which assets reacted?
How did price follow through?

With MRKT’s live headline feed + AI breakdown, and also thanks to the filtering of high impactful news so you don’t have to scroll through unimportant headlines, you see can see which headline actually had an impact on the asset class you are choosing to trade and also why it had the impact it had.

This helps you recognize patterns (for example, how gold reacts to Fed comments) and build intuition for next time.

Step 2: Check Institutional Positioning With the COT Report

The Commitments of Traders (COT) report comes out every Friday. It reveals how:

Commercials (hedgers) are positioned → usually contrarian at extremes.
Large speculators (funds) are trading → trend drivers.
Small traders (retail) are positioned → often wrong at turning points.

Instead of staring at raw data, MRKT simplifies this into bullish/bearish signals for your assets.

By checking positioning at the end of each week, you align yourself with smart money instead of being caught on the wrong side.

Step 3: Use Candle Analysis to Learn From Missed Moves

On Friday, while you are reviewing the past week, you can find yourself against a move that you didn’t know what actually caused it, and instead of guessing, or spend time trying to figure it out, you can just use MRKT’s Candle Analysis feature.

Here’s how it works:

Click on any candle from the session.
MRKT instantly explains what happened during that time.
It shows whether the move was triggered by:
- Breaking headlines;
- Scheduled economic data;
- Regular market movement;

This turns confusing candles into learning opportunities. Instead of brushing it off as “random move,” you’ll know the exact cause, and that knowledge compounds week after week.

Step 4: Compare MRKT’s Daily Bias of Friday with the one of Monday

This is one of the most valuable exercises. But why?

Well this is crucial to see if the sentiment changed throughout the week or remained the same, and also reviewing this, you’ll:

Build confidence when MRKT’s bias aligns with market action.
Learn how unexpected events shift bias (so you’re ready next time).

Step 5: Analyze Key Economic Data and Macro Drivers

Each week, major reports like CPI, NFP, retail sales, and central bank statements shape price direction.

At the end of the week, ask:

Which economic events had the strongest impact?
Did the reaction align with expectations?
How did that affect your asset’s bias and targets?
Check the summary of each economic data event
- Are the numbers of the data actually representing the truth you see inside the report?
  - For example you can see a strong GDP reading but it was mainly driven by an increase in export and a decrease in imports.
Check what did you do wrong, and how you could have positioned yourself better with MRKT prediction tool.

MRKT explains each event in plain language, so you don’t just track numbers, you understand the macro drivers that actually move markets.

Step 6: Save Key Charts, Levels, and Insights for Your Playbook

Professional traders don’t just trade the week and forget it. They archive lessons.

At the end of each week, save:

MRKT’s upside and downside targets that played out.
Screenshots of charts showing reaction to news or levels.
Notes on which headlines or events moved your market.

Over time, this becomes your personal trading playbook, helping you refine strategies and avoid repeating mistakes.

Final Thoughts: Turn Weekly Review Into a Growth Engine

By following this end of week trading checklist with MRKT, you’ll:

Understand what moved markets.
Align with institutional positioning.
Learn from the past week’s bias and reactions.
Prepare for the week ahead with clarity.

Instead of repeating mistakes, you’ll enter Monday with confidence, backed by data, analysis, and smart preparation.

📌 Take control of your trading week, start building your end of week checklist with MRKT today and turn every week into a growth engine.

End-of-Week Trading Checklist: How to Use MRKT to Learn, Review, and Prepare

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