Pilots with 20,000 hours still run the checklist. The trades that kill accounts are the ones that would have failed it.
State — tired, angry or chasing a loss, your win rate quietly drops; the market will still be there tomorrow. Playbook — if you can't name the setup, it's an impulse, not a trade. Risk 1% — the position size calculator makes this a 10-second check that decides your survival odds. Stop placed first — a "mental stop" is a promise your future, losing self won't keep. 1:2 minimum — check it in the risk/reward planner; below 1:2 your plan silently demands elite accuracy. Funding & news — funding eats slow trades, news eats tight stops.
Green streak growing? Log the result of each trade in the trading journal — the checklist keeps you disciplined going in, the journal proves whether the discipline is paying.