What do you know now about your own psychology?
The accumulated self-knowledge of a trading career: your triggers, your patterns, your tells. Knowing yourself is the meta-edge that makes every strategy executable.
Share yours:
- the self-knowledge that cost the most to acquire
- how it changed your trading
- what you still don't understand about yourself
The journal guide is how this knowledge gets collected.
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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