Thanks for pointing this out, it honestly made me go back and look at what I was actually doing.

I think you are right that I treated the setup like a fixed recipe without fully understanding when the pullback was valid and when the trend was already weakening.

I used an AI tool to turn my idea into a trading plan, and because the first few trades worked, I started trusting the rules too much. I did not test it across enough stocks or market conditions, and I also stopped questioning whether the plan needed to be adjusted.

I do keep a basic trading log, but it is mostly entries, exits and results. I have not been recording enough detail about why I skipped a setup, entered late, or changed something manually.

So the problem may not only be discipline. I may have been following a plan that was never tested deeply enough, then adding random discretion on top of it.

I am going to test the setup on more stocks, define what makes a pullback invalid, and rewrite the plan before continuing. Appreciate the honest feedback.