Your Trading Journal as a Performance Tool

Most traders who say they journal are really just keeping a trade log. They record the entry price, the exit price, and the P&L. That's bookkeeping, not journaling. A trade log tells you what happened. A trading journal tells you why it happened, what you were feeling when it did, and whether you'd make the same decision again.

That difference is everything. In this lesson, you'll build a journal structure that captures the data your trade log misses, and you'll learn how to extract patterns from it that actually change your behavior.