Before the session
Write the market condition, your best setups, risk limit, and the one behavior you are trying to avoid today.
Guide
How to keep a trading journal that changes behavior.
To keep a trading journal, write the plan before entry, record the decision during the trade, and review one correction after the session.
Write the plan before the trade
Record only useful context
Review patterns weekly
Turn repeated mistakes into rules
After each trade
Capture the reason for entry, whether the plan was followed, what changed, and one sentence about the exit.
At the end of the week
Group trades by setup and mistake. If the same behavior appears three times, it deserves a rule or a checklist item.
Example entry
For a late-morning NQ long, record the setup, planned stop, target, emotional state, actual exit, and whether the exit matched the original plan.
Common questions
What should a trading journal include?
A useful trading journal includes the pre-trade plan, setup, entry reason, stop, target, position size, result, emotions, rule breaks, screenshots, and one lesson to review later.
How often should you review a trading journal?
Review notes briefly after every session and run a deeper weekly review by grouping trades by setup, mistake, session, and exit quality.
Is a spreadsheet enough for a trading journal?
A spreadsheet can work for a small log, but it becomes weaker when you need screenshots, playbook rules, mistake tags, MAE/MFE, and recurring-behavior review in one place.
Trevixe as a system
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