Trading Journal
A trading journal turns individual trades into reviewable evidence. Use it to capture the plan, the result, the emotion, the rule score, and the lesson so your next decision has better structure.
The journal is not about proving a strategy works after one trade. It is about finding repeated behaviors, rule breaks, and decision patterns over time.
Journal fields that support the process
Before Entry
Pair, setup, market condition, planned risk, invalidation point, and rule score.
After Exit
Result in R, execution quality, emotion, mistake tag, and what changed after entry.
Weekly Review
Summarize repeated behaviors and choose one process improvement for the next week.
Before Entry
- Pair, session, setup, entry, stop, target.
- Risk amount, stop pips, and estimated lot size.
- Trade thesis and relevant news.
After Exit
- Exit price, result, and plan adherence.
- Emotion, mistake tag, and lesson learned.
- One improvement for the next similar setup.
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