Review Your Trading Behavior
Use a journal to compare decisions with your plan.
Trading Journal
Record entry rationale, size, exit, costs and behavior. Consistent notes reveal recurring mistakes and enable review. Profit factor or win rate alone can hide sample-size problems and extreme losses.
Example
Tag a trade by strategy and emotion before reviewing results across a larger sample.
Decision Biases
Confirmation bias favors evidence that supports an existing view. Recency bias overweights recent events. Write both supporting and conflicting observations, and evaluate a sequence of decisions rather than a selected result.
Example
Keep notes about a setup that failed as well as similar setups that succeeded.
Psychology Review
Review whether actions followed the plan, how emotions influenced size and whether limits were respected. Keep outcome quality separate from decision quality. Use the review to improve observable habits rather than to predict certainty.
Example
A losing trade can follow a sound process, while a winning impulsive trade can still be a poor decision.
All educational content is provided for general information and educational purposes only. It does not constitute investment advice, financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument. Trading leveraged products involves significant risk and may result in the loss of invested capital.