How to Journal as a Trader or Investor on Trading View ? Summary of this video
There could be Two types of people Journaling, one who is daily journaling and one who is weekly journaling; both will do the job.
You can make two notebooks for the same: Feelings-based Journal and Stats-based Journaling.
Both serve different purposes.
A feeling-based journal helps you to create a daily habit of writing some compulsory things like pre-market, vix, post-market, and setups, and ask why in terms of positions - if taken and if not taken, whereas to get into the habit of writing a feelings based journal also dig deep into some really important terms like cpi inflation, ppi of some significant economies which effects your markets. These things won't affect your trading, but such add-ons help you give a direction to your journaling power.
A Stats-based journal contains different columns, as told in the video; feel free to add more of your favorite ones and change them as you wish, but every single trade should be respected in such a manner. Journal every single trade like this in terms of numbers. Remars is very important in this journal as it will guide your Fear and Greed.
In conclusion, Finally, if you can do this for at least one month, you will see good results, but what exactly do you have to see?
After one month, read your first-day feeling journal and the first two or three trade remarks. You will be amazed to see how silly mistakes you made in the past or how efficient you were back then and now you are making those mistakes; either will help you grow in mindset and profitability. It enables you to become a better trader by 1% daily.
Feel free to put more ideas and thoughts below in the comment section. Good luck journaling
Journal
EURUSD Journal entryNote : I am Learning student of ICT
trading journal help you to build your basic foundation so if you are learning ICT concepts so you have to do this every single day.. may this example help you (All credit go to ICT only i am his student)
So if you are forex trader annotate your DXY \ EURUSD \ GBPUSD chart every day
with Your Daily | H1 | M15 chart for next 3 months to build your understanding about how price flow move
Note ::
Always have narrative and short term bias in your mind
for more detail Watch ICT Month 5 , 6 , 7 , 12
And video of ICT from Core content (what to focus on)
Maintaining Trading Journal.Maintaining Trading Journal :-
Maintaining Trading Journal is one of the key aspect of becoming a good trader. This is something which I have struggled to do- I always planned to keep a trading journal but after sometime I failed to maintain it or continue it(Mainly due to the losses that I incurred in between which am really not motivated to write down).
However after some time I have realized that without a journal or written records I tend to repeat the same mistakes again and again. So after spending some time on how to make a journal and looking at several templates online/copying them - I have set one for me.
This idea is to share the template to everyone.
There are three sections of journals:-
1. Trade inputs :- Inputs related to trade
2. Technical Characteristics - Columns which can be calculated using a formula and they can give some insights.
3. Takeaways from the trade:- Kind of diary to record your thought process around this trade. Strategy/ Rules/Reasons of exit/Mistakes /Learnings etc.
I hope this can help you to some extent.
** Please Note:- Content entered there is completely random and sample data.