What do you celebrate in your trading?
Most traders celebrate only profits, which makes most weeks celebration-free. Celebrating process wins — the followed plan, the skipped bad trade, the honest journal — changes the emotional economy.
What do you celebrate?
- the small wins you acknowledge
- how you mark them
- how it changed your motivation
The journal guide makes the small wins visible enough to celebrate.
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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