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What is Trade Journaling?

Recording every trade with screenshots, reasoning, and outcome — the feedback loop that builds edge.

The DefinitionTrade Journaling, defined

Trade Journaling is the disciplined practice of documenting every trade: the setup (with chart screenshots), the RRR reasoning, entry, stop, target, outcome in R, and a post-trade review of what was done well or poorly. Journaling converts experience into data. After 50+ journaled trades, you can compute your real expectancy, identify which setups actually make money (versus which feel like they should), and find the leaks — the revenge trades, the early exits, the B setups that bleed you.

Why It MattersWhy Trade Journaling matters

Memory lies. Every trader remembers their winners as skill and their losers as bad luck. The journal is the honest record that turns trading from gambling into a craft.

In PracticeTrade Journaling — a real example

Example · New York Session

Your journal shows your sweeps of the ON high win at 55% with 2.4R average — but your mid-range entries win at 22%. The data tells you what to cut. Without it, you'd keep donating on the mid-range stuff forever.

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