Trading glossary
Execution Quality
Execution quality measures how closely your fills, timing and sizing match your plan, including slippage, missed entries and early exits. Poor execution quietly destroys edge: a strategy that looks profitable in theory can lose money if fills are bad or entries are late. Reviewing execution quality requires a per-trade record of what you intended versus what happened. A journal provides exactly that. Traders Vault records entry, exit, size and risk per trade, and its analytics let you compare planned versus actual execution across sessions and setups.
What is Execution Quality in trading?
Execution quality measures how closely your fills, timing and sizing match your plan, including slippage, missed entries and early exits. Poor execution quietly destroys edge: a strategy that looks profitable in theory can lose money if fills are bad or entries are late. Reviewing execution quality requires a per-trade record of what you intended versus what happened. A journal provides exactly that. Traders Vault records entry, exit, size and risk per trade, and its analytics let you compare planned versus actual execution across sessions and setups.