Your ability to spot market trends and understand how breaking news influences prices. Measuring your discipline, patience and asset allocation in trying to maximise profits for your client

Measuring the quality of the prices that you traded at. Monitoring your average fill price for all of your trades as a percentage distance away from the reference price at the time of the trade

Measuring your skill in responding to changes in portfolio composition due to market movement. Did you monitor and tweak portfolio weightings to stay within asset allocation limits

Did you carry any positions that at any point had a loss that exceeded the stipulated maximum loss limit. Measuring your risk discipline when investment decisions go wrong

Measuring your appetite to utilise your maximum risk position limit for your strong-conviction trades. Also checking you had the majority of your client’s funds invested rather than sitting on cash