What's your post-trade emotional review?
After the trade comes the emotional review: what did you feel, when, and how did it affect the decisions? The process turns feelings into material instead of residue.
Walk through yours:
- the questions you ask yourself after a trade
- how you separate the trade from the emotion
- the insight the review produced recently
The journal guide structures the review.
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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