Do you track your emotions alongside your trades?
Some traders log a mood score with every trade, and the patterns are revealing: the losses cluster on anxious days, the rule breaks on euphoric ones. Emotions become data.
Do you track them?
- how you record emotional state
- the pattern your data revealed
- what you changed because of it
The journal guide shows how to add the emotion fields.
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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