Unit 2 · Level 2 · Journaling
The four columns
Ask any trader how last month went and you'll hear a story: polished, flattering, and quietly rewritten by hindsight bias (League 1 covered that bug). The journal is the defense, four columns per trade, filled in while it's still true. Setup. Reason. Emotion. Outcome. Twenty seconds of typing that your future self will treat like gold.
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What you get asked
Match each journal column to what belongs in it
Four columns, four questions. If the setup column is blank, that blank is your finding.
Why log your EMOTION at entry? Isn't that diary stuff, not trading?
One word ('bored', 'confident', 'revenge') turns feelings into searchable data. Many traders discover one emotion tag sitting on top of most of their red.
Without the ___ column, you can never discover that your worst trades start as boredom.
P&L tells you WHAT happened; the emotion column is the only place that records the state you decided in.
Why record outcomes in R (multiples of what you risked) instead of raw euros?
A −€50 loss on a tiny position and a −€500 loss on a big one can both be −1R: same quality of decision. R strips size out so the pattern underneath is visible.
When should the journal entry be written?
By Sunday, hindsight bias has redecorated everything: reasons sound smarter, panic becomes 'caution'. Log it live or lose it. 🐜
The rest of this unit
Memory spins, data doesn't. Turn your trades into numbers you can fix.