Retail traders think a setup is an edge. It isn't. An edge is a setup executed under strict mechanical conditions with a documented positive mathematical expectancy.
If you call everything a "pullback", you can't isolate your stats. Naming your strategies mechanically is the start of professional database compartmentalization.
Most traders' playbooks are just screenshots showing perfect trades perfectly capturing the bottom. A real playbook is a rigid, conditional flowchart.
Build and generate a mechanical Standard Operating Procedure out of your strategy right now.
Every essay in this series points to the same conclusion: the traders who make it don't have a better strategy — they have a better system for proving, documenting, and protecting it. Here is that system.