Trading Journal
Log your trades, track performance, and analyse your edge. P&L, pips, and R:R are auto-calculated. Excel export includes multiple sheets with full summary stats. Data stays in your browser.
| Date | Pair | Dir | Entry | Exit | SL | TP | Lots | P&L | Pips | R:R | Session | Setup | Emotion | Comm | Swap | Dur | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-06 | EUR/USD | Buy | 1.085 | 1.094 | 1.082 | 1.094 | 0.5 | +$45.00 | +90.0 | 1:3.0 | London | Range breakout | Confident | $-3.50 | - | 2h 15m | Clean breakout above range high | |
| 2025-01-07 | GBP/USD | Sell | 1.272 | 1.268 | 1.275 | 1.268 | 0.3 | +$12.00 | +40.0 | 1:1.3 | London | Resistance rejection | Neutral | $-2.10 | $-0.30 | 45m | Double top at resistance | |
| 2025-01-08 | USD/JPY | Buy | 148.5 | 148.2 | 148.8 | 149.5 | 0.2 | $-4.02 | -30.0 | 1:3.3 | New York | Trend continuation | FOMO | $-1.40 | $0.50 | 1h 30m | Entered late, hit SL on news spike | |
| 2025-01-09 | EUR/USD | Sell | 1.091 | 1.087 | 1.094 | 1.087 | 0.5 | +$20.00 | +40.0 | 1:1.3 | New York | Trend continuation | Confident | $-3.50 | - | 3h | NY session trend continuation | |
| 2025-01-10 | GBP/USD | Buy | 1.265 | 1.262 | 1.262 | 1.271 | 0.4 | $-12.00 | -30.0 | 1:2.0 | London | Breakout | Neutral | $-2.80 | - | 20m | False breakout - stopped | |
| 2025-01-13 | AUD/USD | Buy | 0.672 | 0.678 | 0.669 | 0.678 | 0.3 | +$18.00 | +60.0 | 1:2.0 | Asia | Support bounce | Confident | $-2.10 | $-1.20 | 6h | Divergence at support | |
| 2025-01-14 | EUR/USD | Buy | 1.088 | 1.092 | 1.085 | 1.094 | 0.5 | +$20.00 | +40.0 | 1:2.0 | London | Momentum | Neutral | $-3.50 | - | 1h 45m | London open momentum | |
| 2025-01-15 | USD/JPY | Sell | 149.2 | 149.5 | 149.5 | 148.5 | 0.2 | $-4.02 | -30.0 | 1:2.3 | New York | Reversal | Fearful | $-1.40 | $0.30 | 50m | Hit SL before reversal |
Why Keep a Trading Journal?
A trading journal is the single most effective tool for improving as a trader. It forces you to review every trade objectively, identify recurring mistakes, and spot what's actually working.
Track your entry reasons, exit points, and emotional state. Over time, patterns emerge — which sessions are most profitable, which pairs suit your style, and what your true win rate and R:R look like versus what you think they are.
Common questions
What should a trading journal track?
At minimum: date and time, instrument, direction, entry, stop, target, exit, position size, and the reason for the trade. The reason is the field most people skip and the only one that lets you tell a bad process from a bad outcome later.
How is a journal different from my broker statement?
A statement records what happened. A journal records what you expected to happen, which is the part you can actually learn from. Without the intent, a losing trade and a well-executed trade that lost look identical in hindsight.
How often should I review it?
Weekly for execution errors and monthly for pattern-level questions. Reviewing after every trade tends to produce overreaction to noise — the same trap as judging a strategy on its last ten results.
Where we use this
A journal only helps if the numbers are honest. We publish ours, every trade, on the live forward test.
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