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Zero DTE War Room – Part 3: Reflection

Coach Ernie wraps up the three-part trading routine series with the piece most traders skip — and the one that matters most: reflection.

This episode makes the case that your daily trading routine is essentially a scientific experiment. Preparation is your hypothesis, execution is the experiment itself, and reflection is where you record the results and learn from them. Without that final step, there's no loop to close and no path to improvement.

Coach Ernie walks through what a proper end-of-day and end-of-week review looks like: logging trades, journaling your reasoning, tagging your setups, capturing screenshots of your charts, and — just as importantly — recording your personal state. Were you sharp? Anxious? Distracted? It all goes in the record.

He also lays out what he calls the four noble truths of fixing trading problems: recognizing that a problem exists, finding the root cause, developing a fix, and then doing the hard work of reprogramming the bad habit through sustained practice.

Along the way, Coach Ernie reviews how Monday's and Tuesday's setups played out, walks through a fresh volume profile markup with detailed guidance on settings and color-coding, and breaks down a live setup using the GEX and convexity heat map in Fly on the Wall. You'll also hear a candid take on why volume profile levels matter more than trend lines, moving averages, or fair value gaps — and why institutional traders, market makers, and currency traders all rely on them.

This episode ties the entire series together. If you only take one thing away: routine without reflection is just repetition. Reflection is what turns it into growth.

Zero DTE War Room streams live every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday on YouTube.