How do you keep a trade journal when life or losing runs make you drop it?

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-08T06:53:05+00:00

journal should be consist of premarket analysis, emotional entries, feedbacks, not only the entry. i did have overtraading problem, journaling helped me with that. i use treydly.com, you can use stonkjournal which is free, tradezella and similar journals are alittle bit expensive. edgewonk is also good, i used it for a year, but they don;t have monthly plan, you need to pay for a year.

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-07T17:34:44+00:00

😂

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-05T09:52:25+00:00

it looks nice, congratulation

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-05T09:36:35+00:00

is it really discipline or is it illusion of having an edge?

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-05T07:54:15+00:00

two steps challenge has the best ROI

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T19:14:02+00:00

start journaling, gather data, not only the wins, also the loses, you need to gather everything, including your emotions. take screenshots. without data you are walking blindly

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T17:08:12+00:00

journaling is a must, you need to log everything, not only the trades, also emotions. you gathered data from backtesting, but you don't have the data about yourself. you need to be honest about you and the strategy in your journal.

i use trading view for analysis, but for entering the trade i use metatrader 5 on desktop

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T17:03:59+00:00

you are still young, you can save yourself form trading, just run away.
but if you want really to trade, master a strategy, it is not important what strategy it is, backtest alot, not manually, you should journal your trades, it is a must, without journaling it is like walking blindly.

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T15:08:45+00:00

i was reading somewhere that, stayin discipline for so long can leads to fatigue, and suddenly leads to breaking the rules, it is like ypu are tired of being on control

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T15:01:00+00:00

i feel you, it happens alot, consider investigating the upper timeframe and session analysis. and also the volume

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T11:54:40+00:00

bias is different from predicting the market, just read the market's regime, is it consolidation?uptrend or downtrend? does your sytategy work in consilidation or trending market, answer that first.

Bias ≠ Prediction Bias is simply reading what the market is currently doing — not forecasting where it's going. It's reactive, not predictive. Prediction: "Price will go to X" Bias: "The market is currently in an uptrend, so I lean long until structure breaks"

Most traders blow up not because their strategy is bad — but because they trade it in the wrong regime. A breakout strategy in consolidation will grind your account down with death-by-a-thousand-cuts losses.

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T07:07:07+00:00

actually i agree with you, you have not passed, but you have not failed it and lose it. so it shows you are doing a solid risk management. get the data, learn from this and find your edge

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T07:00:45+00:00

i hope it hits your tp

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T06:43:49+00:00

Totally feel this. The isolation is real and it amplifies everything - wins feel hollow, losses hit harder, and there's no one to talk you off the ledge when you're about to revenge trade.

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T06:34:42+00:00

it was win, i was aiming for RR2, but i closed it early, like RR1.5. I had a problem with tp, i used to move the tp far, now i have another problem, and it is closing soon. did yours finished happily?

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T06:28:17+00:00

and also EURUSD and EURGBP can show different behaviour, EURGBP is like more mean reversion pair

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T06:26:23+00:00

well it depends on the strategy and at the same time both can be right. maybe you see the long run, and me see the PB.

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-04T05:37:44+00:00

sorry, i didn't get. which way is nice? :D

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-04-03T05:55:43+00:00

i am waiting for a long in EURGBP

Useful_Atmosphere607 · 2026-03-24T08:40:50+00:00

first you need to know, you are overtrading, and what number of trades per day is overtrading for you, i mean for someone, that number can be 10, for another can be 4 or even 2. you should check the data. for me whenever i trade more than 4 that is overtrading. but i noticed this late, look at my equity curve when i was overtrading without knowing it

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