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Rafale

The session

YES/NO decisions, the reveal, notes, the calendar, and the honesty guards.

Once a session starts, the loop is simple: see the setup, decide, see the truth, move on. Everything around that loop is built to keep you honest and keep you moving.

The decision loop

  1. 1

    Rafale teleports to the entry

    The chart jumps (via TradingView replay) to the setup's exact moment. The panel shows an ENTRY badge, the trade counter (say 12 / 47), the time, the date, the symbol and the position side (Long or Short). The future is hidden: the chart stops at the entry candle.
  2. 2

    You answer: would you take this?

    YES means you take the trade, NO means you pass. There is no peeking ahead; the decision is made under live-trading uncertainty.
  3. 3

    The outcome reveals

    The chart advances to the exit and the badge flips to EXIT with the verdict: WIN, LOSS or BE (break-even). Taken trades color the verdict green or red and move your session stats; skipped trades show it neutral and feed the skipped counters instead.
  4. 4

    Next Trade

    A short click on Next Trade locks the result and jumps to the next entry. Dozens of decisions fit in minutes.

Notes on any trade

On every exit screen a pencil button opens a notes field. Whatever you type is saved with that trade, survives in the session archive, and lands in the Notes column of the XLSX export, so your reasoning arrives in Afterburner attached to the right trade.

Moving around the session

  • Chevrons around the trade counter step to the previous or next trade. Trades you already decided replay as locked history (their result shows, your decision stands).
  • The calendar time machine. Click the counter itself (the 12 / 47) and a month calendar opens, marking every day that holds trades. Click a day to jump straight to its trade; if a day holds several, a small time menu lists them (already-decided ones are marked) and you pick the exact one. Arrows page through months across the whole backtest period.
  • Progress is saved continuously. Every decision writes the session to storage. Close the tab mid-session and it waits in Past Sessions, resumable at the exact trade you left.

The honesty guards

Backtests are only worth what their integrity allows, so changing recorded history is deliberately hard and always leaves a trace:

  • Changing a result : press and hold the WIN / LOSS label for 2 full seconds. A warning modal steps in first: "You are about to change the result of your trade. The goal of backtesting is to be honest with yourself..." with two buttons, I'm honest (cancel) and Continue.
  • Changing a decision (YES to NO or back): hold the Next Trade button. After half a second it turns into a filling gauge reading CHANGE TRADE DECISION; keep holding about 6 more seconds to reach the same warning modal.
  • Every override is stamped. Going through with a change writes a permanent line into that trade's notes ("This trade output has been changed manually" and/or "The trader changed his decision to enter or not after knowing the final result"). It exports with the file, so a reviewed journal always tells the truth about itself.

Session complete

After the last decision the panel shows the full recap: Total R, winrate, taken W/L, skipped Sk-W/Sk-L, max drawdown, expectancy, profit factor and net USD. From there you can download the XLSX, import straight into Afterburner, review the session trade by trade, or load a new one.