Free template · printable
If it is not in the journal, it did not teach you anything.
The same fields, every trade, in R not dollars. Print the template below, or use the journal Ches rates highest.
Per trade
Fill every field, every time
- Date and time (New York)
- Which window
- Market and contract
- Size
- Liquidity taken
- PDH, PDL, Asia, London, NY AM high or low, or a swing
- Displacement
- Yes or no
- Inversion time frame
- 15m, 5m or 3m
- Gap time frame
- 15m, 5m or 3m
- Entry, stop, TP1, runner target
- Stop at the bottom of the body of the inversion candle
- Planned R and actual R
- Never dollars
- Emotion
- 1-5, and the word
- Execution grade
- A, B or C, separate from the result
- Rule break?
- Which one, and the trigger
- Screenshots
- Before and after
Per day
- State check and news for the day
- Bias, and was it valid?
- Process score out of ten
- Three review lines: what I did well, what I would change, the rule for tomorrow
Per week
- Rule adherence rate
- Total R
- The top rule break, and its if-then rule
- Skipped valid setups, and why
Tags that pay off
- A+
- Forced
- After a loss
- Late window
- News day
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