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
