TRADING JOURNAL MANUAL
ABOUT THIS TRADING JOURNAL
This trading journal template offers fundamental information that will help you track your trades, show your performance, and h
identify errors that you could work on in order to improve as a trader. It also allows you to jot down your comments and what y
learned on the trade.
Trading is a personal journey and each person has his own process, so feel free to customize this to suit your style and your goa
This template, however, has limitations in terms of statistics and metrics but will essentially give you an insight into the benefits
journaling your trades.
OVERVIEW
This shows you the summary of your trades. It gives you an overview of how you are performing.
TRADE LOG
This is where you input your raw data which will run basic calculations to display indicators that show your performance and w
you need to improve on.
This also includes a space where you can add personal comments regarding each trade you took and any lessons you learned thro
this trade.
Date Date you opened a trade
INFORMATION Symbol What you traded
L/S/O Long/Short/Put Options/Call Options
Entry Price Price of a stock when you entered
Entry Time Time you entered the trade
ENTRY
Position Size Number of shares you purchased
Stop Loss Stop Loss price you set.
Exit Price Price of the stock when you closed
EXIT Exit Time Time you closed the trade
Exit Date Date you closed the trade
FEES Commission Input fee manually
P/L Actual profit or loss; commission subtracted
P/L
Win/Loss Is this trade a winner or a loser
Investment Entry price multiplied by the number of shares
INITIAL
Risk What you risked on this trade
REALIZED R-Multiple P/L divided by the initial risk
Tags Tag what setup you used and mistakes you made.
NOTEBOOK
Lessons What you learned on this trade, what worked and what did not
TAGS
Enter your setups and mistakes on the list.
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TRADING JOURNAL OVERVIEW
Invested Equity $32.00 Total Trades 2
Total P/L $8,402.00 Long Trades 0
Total Commissions $82.50 Short Trades 0
Current Equity $8,351.50 Put Options 2
Ave. Realized R-Multiple 0.00R Call Options 0
ERVIEW
Number of Wins 0
Number of Losses 0
Percentage of Wins 0.00%
Percentage of Losses 0.00%
TRADE LOG
INFORMATION ENTRY
Item Date Symbol L/S/O Entry Price Entry Time Position Size
1 1/3/2023 AAPL Put Options $3.00 10:30:00 AM 4.00
2 1/4/2023 AMZN Put Options $5.00 11:40 AM 4.00
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TRADE LOG
EXIT FEES P/L
Stop Loss Exit Price Exit Time Exit Date Commission P/L Win/Loss
$2.82 10:50:00 AM 1/3/2023 $32.50 $3,322.00 Win
$4.80 11:42:00 AM 1/4/2023 $50.00 $5,080.00 Win
$82.50 $8,402.00
NOTEBOOK
INITIAL REALIZED TAGS
LESSONS/INSIGHTS
Investment R-Multiple Setups Mistakes
$12.00 Morning Reversal Hesitated
$20.00 Red to green Not in plan
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TRADING JOURNAL TAGS
Setups Mistakes
Morning Reversal Not in plan
Red to green Hesitated
[Enter setup] [Enter mistake]
[Enter setup] [Enter mistake]
[Enter setup] [Enter mistake]
