📒 수익 나는 트레이더들은 거래 일지에 무엇을 기록할까?

For a long time I tracked my journal using these variables:

* Date
* Screenshot
* Explanation of the entry
* Result
* Notes (how I felt, if any news was released during the trade...)

Personally, I recommend journaling for beginner traders, because it forces you to follow your strategy.

I have a giant mega spreadsheet where I track all kinds of stuff on different tabs. One of those tabs is a journal, another is a trade log.

**On the journal:**
-Pregame checklist of the things I need to look at before I start: Did I hydrate and get a little bit to eat? Review any data/reports coming out today, read the WSJ, look at the president's daily schedule (started doing this lately as Trump has been moving the market), I look at my playbook (read Mike Bellafiore) and my Mental Health Hand History (read Jared Tendler), double check that all of my accounts are in good order; proper sizing, etc. I take a moment to note how frustrated about life I am on a scale of 1-4. Then I pull up my daily charts and do some TA, see if I notice anything there, identify what kind of day it likely is (trending, consolidating, etc) is there any kind of fundamental catalyst, etc.

-I do a bunch of affirmations, review my rule set, and log that I have done both.

-I then have a 'life events' journal where I write a quick blurb on any major events in my normal life. I also have an 'emotional carryover' section where I write specifically about how trading is making me feel.

**For actual trades:**
-Date, time, instrument, size, thesis, entry rating (A-C), exit rating (A-C), Projected Risk : Reward, price target, result, total daily $ so far, then I have a bunch of things I mark y/n that I need to pay attention to when entering a trade: Am I emotionally triggered? Is volume appropriate? Strong formation? Good R:R? Good entrance? and about 10 more.

Writing this all out... trading is a lot of work. It took me a long time to develop a process to get my mind right so I can actually do this.

What made the setup stronger/weaker. Sizing. Mistakes during execution

I personally just use my trading apps journaling and then review it every weekend. It's not super detailed but I feel like it's helped me figure out what trades I should stop forcing and what days I seem to be more lenient with my personal rules and need to tighten up.

Ive started with spreadsheet, I've detailed everything that I could measure, entrys, exits, feelings, what went wrong, what could have been. It got very big and annoying to maintain. So I've created my own. It imports data from broker, downloads ohlc data, draws charts, calculates indicators, shows possible entry points, calculates position size, SL, TP sends notifications, screens and searches symbols, calculatres P/L, trains on past data, sends questions to llm for symbol analysis, and so on. But thats irrelevant, the most important thing it does it remainds me every single time about strategy conditions. It changed everything, from unprofitable to finally some profit. Best part is that if I need a functionality I just add it.

Back then I used Tradezella.

I stopped that and just resumed to screenshots to my pc then write stuff up about it somewhere like notepads.

It did improve the quality of my trades after 3years of consistent journaling.

I track the after trade and see where I can improve.

they track the setup, how much risk they took, what mistake they made, how they felt, and a screenshot. then they review it weekly to spot patterns. if i had one thing, it’d be tagging mistakes so you see what’s losing you money. the journal itself doesn’t help. looking at it does.