Logging Is Not Enough — You Need to Review
Many traders log trades and never look at the data again. The trading journal only has value when you revisit the information regularly and extract actionable insights.
What to Log in Every Trade
- Objective data: pair, direction, entry, stop, target, result
- Setup: which pattern motivated the entry
- Session: London, New York, Asia
- Execution quality: entered at planned price? Moved stop?
- Emotional state: calm, impatient, frustrated
The Weekly Review: The Ritual That Transforms Traders
Set aside 30 minutes every Friday:
- Which trades followed the plan? Which were outside?
- What was the week's profit factor?
- Was there revenge trading or overtrading?
- What would you do differently?
Document one lesson per week. In 6 months you will have 26 concrete lessons.
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ForexTracker organizes all your data and automatically generates the filters and reports described above. Just log trades and consult ready-made reports.
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