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Trading Journal and Review

A trading journal you will actually keep: one record per trade with its reason, rule checks and mistakes, broker reconciliation, daily, weekly and monthly reviews, and a change log so rules move only after a review.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Trading Journal and Review, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own money decisions. It is not financial, investment, tax or legal advice. Check decisions that matter with a qualified, licensed adviser in your country, and remember that investing and trading can lose money.

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🧮 Quantitative Finance & Trading

Trading Journal and Review

Keeping a trading journal: every trade with its reason, rule compliance, errors, weekly and monthly reviews, and changes made only after a review.

  1. Choosing where your trading journal lives
  2. Fields to record for every trade
  3. Rule checklist the journal scores you against
  4. Importing trades from your broker export
  5. Back-filling three months of past trades
  6. Pre-trade reason written before entry
  7. Chart screenshots attached to each trade
  8. Mistake tags you will actually use
  9. Baseline statistics from your first 50 trades
  10. Journal privacy, backup and account separation
  11. Post-session journal close
  12. Pre-session readiness note
  13. Weekly trade review session
  14. Monthly statistics and compliance review
  15. Monthly broker statement reconciliation
  16. Rule change log with a review gate
  17. Rule breach log and follow-up
  18. Missed and skipped setups log
  19. Equity curve and drawdown tracker
  20. Quarterly audit of the journal itself
  21. Expectancy, win rate and payoff ratio explained
  22. Measuring every trade in R multiples
  23. Reading MAE and MFE from your trades
  24. Spotting bias in your own trade notes
  25. Writing trade notes that help later
  26. Sample size and luck in trading results
  27. Grading process separately from outcome
  28. After-action reviews for trading days
  29. Performance by setup and the keep or drop decision
  30. Time of day and day of week breakdown
  31. One-mistake-a-month reduction plan
  32. Exit quality review
  33. Position size consistency check
  34. Overtrading check from trade counts
  35. Tag and field clean-up
  36. Switching to a dedicated journal app
  37. First 30-day journal review
  38. Hundred-trade milestone review
  39. Six-month trading review write-up
  40. Year-end trading review and next-year plan
  41. Review after your largest drawdown
  42. Quarterly review with a mentor or trading peer
  43. Journaling as a part-time trader with a day job
  44. Journaling a systematic or automated strategy
  45. Restarting the journal after a break
  46. Journaling multi-leg and options positions
  47. First hundred trades for a new trader
  48. Journal analysis scripts in Python or a spreadsheet
  49. Personal playbook built from journal evidence
  50. Annual check on whether an edge exists

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Choosing where your trading journal lives

Split across a broker app, a notes file and a few screenshots, a journal never gets reviewed, because nothing adds up in one place. Pick one home now, whether a spreadsheet, a dedicated journal app or a database you control, against criteria you write down first: import from your broker, custom fields, charts attached to trades, export, cost and privacy.

First tasks

  • Write five criteria your journal tool must meet before comparing any
  • Compare a spreadsheet with two journal apps against those criteria
  • Check each option can export every field to CSV
  • Record the chosen tool and the reason in the journal's front page

Fields to record for every trade

Most journals fail because they record either too little (symbol and profit) or so much that entries stop after a week. A fixed set of 12 to 18 fields, split into what you fill before entry, at exit and at review, makes every trade comparable and keeps each entry to a few minutes. The schema decided here is what every statistic in this area is calculated from.

First tasks

  • Draft the pre-trade, at-exit and review field lists
  • Define allowed values for setup, direction and mistake fields
  • Enter ten recent trades using the new fields
  • Delete any field left blank in most of the ten test entries

Rule checklist the journal scores you against

Discipline can only be measured if the rules are written in a form you can mark yes or no for each trade. Turning your trading plan into eight to twelve checkable statements, such as stop placed before entry or size within the plan, gives every trade a compliance score. The rules themselves belong in your trading plan; this project makes them auditable.

First tasks

  • Copy your trading plan's rules into one list
  • Rewrite each rule so it can be marked yes or no per trade
  • Add the rule checks to the trade entry template
  • Build a running compliance percentage on the journal summary sheet

Make it yours.

Install Trading Journal and Review, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.