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 keep a feelings diary alongside your trading journal? — drawdown and recovery diagram
An equity curve during a drawdown and its recovery

Do you?

  • how you separate feelings from trade records
  • what the feelings diary reveals
  • how the two documents inform each other
Do you keep a feelings diary alongside your trading journal? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The journal guide covers the trade side; this thread covers the feeling side.

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