What a streak actually measures
A streak counts something much rarer than wins: consecutive days on which you showed up and did the boring thing.
Win streaks are weather. They tell you what the market happened to hand you this week, and they end the way weather ends. A discipline streak is climate: it measures the only variable you fully control, whether the process happened today.
Why the rules include no-trade days
In reps a day counts toward the streak if you checked your rules, logged a trade, or deliberately marked a no-trade day. Sitting out a choppy session because the plan said so is the record, not a gap in it. Skipping the journal entirely is the only thing that breaks the chain.
The first chain measures the market's mood that week. The second one measures you.
Consistency means refusing to skip the unimpressive thing, daily.
The psychology is blunt but it works: a visible chain makes the invisible habit concrete, and losing a forty day chain to laziness stings more than any single red trade. Use that sting. It is free risk management.
Just keep the streak honest. It measures attendance, not performance, and attendance is the input you can promise. Performance is the output you cannot.