Keeping Trading Records

[tradingkevin]

We know that to improve one needs to follow and analyse one;s
trade at the end of each day if not each week.

But how to do that in a simple yet straight forward way and see
all that went into the trade like the psychology, the trailing stops, the entries ...the targets..etc..

I have personally always struggle with that but now I have come up with a layout that makes sense. I have a small window
on the right of my chart ( 1 min ) where I right all my comments
down during the trade and at the end of the day I clean up
the chart and save the image and print it out for reference. I have taken a screen shoot of my trading environement.

I also take screen shoots with MWsnap 3 ( freeware) to take a picture each time I see something important and make a quick
comment on the main chart then delete that comments once I have taken the image so that I dont cluter up the images .

Granted it takes some time to arrange all this but the information
you get in invaluable .

I hope this will help some of you organize themself.

 

[tradingkevin]

this is how I watch the market every day.

4 min in center..I like to keep that chart clean from clutter .

lower left a 60 min

on upper right a 1 min where I place my comments.

and lower a 4 min close mainly for the trend.

trying to keep it simple and clean.

sincerely

lovingemini

hope it helps some people.

 

[Spectra]

I often use Camtasia screen record to record my comments and the actual trade. I only place 4 or so trades a day that usually last between 1 minute and 10 minutes so the space used is not that bad.