Trading is a goal-oriented and gut-wrenching endeavor. As manual traders who will be executing trades at intervals, we need a journal to keep track of trades, stay focused, and measure performance.



Through journaling, we can keep track of what works and what doesn’t. More importantly, maintaining journals keeps us disciplined and we can audit irrational trading.



As mechanical traders, keeping a journal helps you refine your trading methodology when necessary, but it also sets you on a path towards being indifferent when setting your trade markers.



Obviously, if you have a trade broker who does this, they will send you a transaction history, in which you may opt out of journaling, however, it is good practice to do when and if you decide to trade on your own.