Building a Trade Journal That Improves Results
Turn your journal into a dataset: tags, expectancy, and how to turn insights into rules.
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Introduction
A trade journal is not a diary of wins — it is a dataset. Tag setups, market regime (trend/range), time of day, and emotional state. After 50 trades, patterns become undeniable.
What to log every time
Screenshot, entry thesis, invalidation, actual exit, slippage notes, and one line on what you would repeat or avoid.
Review weekly: are losses clustered in one session or one pattern type?
From journal to rules
When a rule is violated twice in a week, simplify your playbook until compliance returns.
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