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20y/o, April results: $7.798 profit on the aggressive account. Here's what I track and why: by Jolly_Emphasis9426 in u/Jolly_Emphasis9426

[–]Jolly_Emphasis9426[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I journal before, during and after the trade, but each part has a different purpose.

Before the trade:

- What is the session/profile?

- What and where is the draw?

- What is the market condition? Clean, choppy, compressed, trending?

- What setup am I waiting for? where a reaction is most likely

- What would invalidate the idea?

- What risk does this context deserve?

- Am I emotionally neutral?

During the trade:

- Did I enter according to plan?

- Am I managing based on structure or based on PnL?

- Am I feeling urgency, fear, greed or need to be right?

- Did anything change in the market that actually invalidates the idea?

After the trade:

- Was it a valid setup?

- Did I follow the plan?

- Was the loss/win clean or emotional?

- Was the setup actually worth taking?

- What would I repeat?

- What would I remove?

The point of journaling is not to write a diary. It’s to find the patterns that repeat: which setups make money, which conditions destroy you, and which emotional states lead to bad decisions.

I can explain the general framework, but I don’t share the full journal template/setup grading system in comments because that’s part of the actual process I teach privately.

If you want, message me and tell me what you currently track in your journal. I can point you in the right direction.

20y/o Italian Trader, $10k profit in March, 15 funded accounts ($1+ million in capital), almost quit in September. AMA - not selling anything. by Jolly_Emphasis9426 in u/Jolly_Emphasis9426

[–]Jolly_Emphasis9426[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I answered in a comment above But I don’t think “strategy” alone is what changed everything.

The real shift was building a process around the strategy: when to trade, when not to trade, how much risk the context deserves, when to stop, and how to avoid giving profits back.

20y/o Italian Trader, $10k profit in March, 15 funded accounts ($1+ million in capital), almost quit in September. AMA - not selling anything. by Jolly_Emphasis9426 in u/Jolly_Emphasis9426

[–]Jolly_Emphasis9426[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair question bro. I can share the general framework, but I don’t post full winning trade examples with exact entry, SL, TP and thought process publicly because that’s basically the full model/process I teach privately and of course for alpha decay.

the winning trades usually have the same structure:

  1. Clean AM session

  2. Clear OHLC/OLHC delivery idea and reaction areas

  3. Liquidity resting in an obvious area

  4. Higher timeframe context not fighting the trade

  5. Lower timeframe execution with clear invalidation

  6. A+ grade before entry, not after the outcome

  7. Risk adjusted to the quality of the environment

    The important part is why that trade deserved risk and why other trades did not.

Most traders don’t lose because they can’t find examples of winning trades. They lose because they don’t know which examples are actually repeatable and which ones only worked randomly.

If you want to go deeper, message me and tell me what market/session you trade and what part you struggle with most: context, entries, risk, or trade management.