{"id":146221,"date":"2019-09-20T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gomarketingteam.com\/auarticles\/tradingjournal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T03:57:00","slug":"tradingjournal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gomarkets.com\/en\/articles\/trading-strategies\/tradingjournal\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting started with your trading journal \u2013 Free Download"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Those of you who have attended any of our LIVE Inner Circle education sessions, or participated in our courses, will know that a regular theme covered is the importance and benefits of measuring your trading. One of the key tools we often discuss is the use of a trading journal.<\/p>\n

For th\"\"ose of you less familiar with this as a concept, a trading journal is a method through which you record your decisions and actions on all trades you enter for a specific period (often a month at least). This allows you not only to see the dollar performance of individual trades but more importantly to make judgements on:
\na. How well (or otherwise) you are following your trading plan;
\nb. How well (or otherwise) your plan as a whole, and its specific components are serving your trading results.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, you are then able to amend as necessary either your behaviour, your plan components, or indeed both with \u201chard\u201d evidence.
\nMany would suggest that this is a crucial system<\/strong> in any trader\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

One of the common questions we are asked relates to the set up and contents of such a journal. Quite simply, your aim should be to measure all aspects of the trade set up, entry and ultimately exit decisions. Such information could be recorded on a spreadsheet, a word document or even in a notepad for example.<\/p>\n

To help you kickstart your journaling process, the download attached to this article gives an example of the detailed information you could choose to collect.<\/p>\n

It is easily adaptable to any trading vehicle should you be trading Forex<\/a>, index CFDs<\/a> or Share CFDs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Simply click below for access to your pdf download.<\/p>\n

trading journal blueprint<\/a><\/p>\n

If you would like to know more about how we can help your trading learning journey, why not join our Facebook \u201cInner Circle\u201d group<\/a> for weekly educational content,\u00a0 or there is also our \u201cNext Steps: course (see image link on the right) where you can access a full video course including a specific session on journaling and an example template to download.<\/p>\n

One last thing\u2026find the concept of \u201cBlueprints\u201d useful? If so drop an email to mike.smith@gomarkets.com and let us know and we can develop some more.<\/p>\n

Trade Safe<\/p>\n

You can find additional forex education resources<\/a> here. For information on other trading tools, see our Autochartist<\/a>, Genesis for MetaTrader<\/a>, and VPS for MetaTrader<\/a> information pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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