Journaling

A trade journal is where every other part of this course gets checked against what happened. A plan, an entry, a managed position, a review, none of it compounds into real improvement without a record specific enough to look back on. What to log, beyond just win or lose A useful entry covers the setup type, the planned entry, stop, and target against what was filled, the size taken, and the reason for the entry written in the trader’s own words at the time, not reconstructed afterward to sound more logical than it was. Whether that reason held up, checked honestly once the trade is closed, is the part most journals skip and the part that teaches something. ...