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Intermediate8 chapters · ~10 min readStarter+
Trade JournalingPerformance Review & Finding Your Edge
How to record trades, measure what actually matters — expectancy, R-multiples, drawdown — find your leaks, and turn the data into rules that make you a better trader.
Every serious trader eventually discovers the same thing: your memory of your trading is wrong. You remember the big wins and the painful losses, not the pattern. A journal replaces memory with data. This course shows you what to record, which numbers matter, and how to turn a spreadsheet into a better process.
Course contents
- 01Why JournalYou can't improve what you don't measure
- 02What to RecordThe fields that matter — and the ones you can skip
- 03Setting Up Your JournalSpreadsheet, app or broker export — pick one and keep it simple
- 04The Metrics That MatterWin rate is not enough — expectancy is the number
- 05Finding Your LeaksSlice the data to see what's really making and losing money
- 06Sample Size and VarianceWhy 10 trades proves nothing — and losing streaks are normal
- 07The Review RoutineDaily, weekly and monthly — a habit that compounds
- 08Turning Insights Into RulesBuild a playbook from your own data
- GLGlossary15 key terms from this course
- →What's NextWhere to go after this course