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 your emotions alongside your trades? — drawdown and recovery diagram
An equity curve during a drawdown and its recovery

Do you track them?

  • how you record emotional state
  • the pattern your data revealed
  • what you changed because of it
Do you track your emotions alongside your trades? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The journal guide shows how to add the emotion fields.

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