Trade Journal

Structured trade journaling for systematic improvement. Log every trade with context, review performance at multiple cadences, detect behavioral patterns that destroy edge, and attribute returns to specific strategies.

Why Journaling Matters

Most traders fail not from bad strategies but from bad behavior. A trade journal transforms subjective "feel" into objective data:

• Strategy Attribution: Know which setups actually make money vs. which feel profitable
• Behavioral Detection: Catch revenge trading, FOMO entries, and premature exits before they compound
• Pattern Recognition: Discover that your Monday morning trades lose money, or that you cut SOL winners too early
• Accountability: Written rationale before entry forces deliberate decision-making
• Improvement Tracking: Measure whether changes to your process actually improve results

Without a journal, you optimize on noise. With one, you optimize on signal.

Trade Record Structure

Every trade record captures context at entry and outcome at exit. See references/record_format.md for the complete 18-field schema.