{"id":293076,"date":"2019-09-20T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gomarketingteam.com\/articles\/tradingjournal\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:20:54","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

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Mike Smith<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Educator<\/strong><\/em>
\nGO Markets<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>
\nThis article is from GO Markets analysts based on their independent analysis. Views expressed are of their own and of a \u2018general\u2019 nature. Advice (if any) are not based on the reader\u2019s personal objectives, financial situation or needs. Readers should, therefore, consider how appropriate the advice (if any) is to their objectives, financial situation and needs, before acting on the advice. You can find additional forex education resources<\/a> here. For information on other trading tools, see our Autochartist<\/a>, Genesis for MetaTrader<\/a>, VPS for MetaTrader<\/a> and a-Quant<\/a> information pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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