Do you keep a feelings diary alongside your trading journal?
A separate space for the feelings — not the trades — lets the emotions be processed without contaminating the trading data. Some traders keep them strictly apart for exactly this reason.
Do you?
- how you separate feelings from trade records
- what the feelings diary reveals
- how the two documents inform each other
The journal guide covers the trade side; this thread covers the feeling side.
Background: How to keep a trading journal that actually improves your trading
A journal turns a pile of trades into evidence. What to record, the numbers worth calculating and a weekly review routine that takes less than an hour.
What should a trading journal include?
For each trade: the pair, direction, size, entry, stop, target, risk, the reason for the trade, how you felt, the result in money and in R, whether you followed your plan, and chart screenshots.
How do I calculate expectancy?
Multiply your win rate by your average win, then subtract your loss rate multiplied by your average loss. Measured in R, a positive result means the approach has made money per trade on average.
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