Forex Trading Journal

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Forex Trading Journal

Forex Trading Journal

I am going to start an online Forex Trading Journal that will be a public log of every trade I make. There are a couple of reasons I am going to start posting my trades here on the Winners Edge Trading blog. First reason is because I want to follow my own advice in an article I wrote last week about forex discipline. If I am going to write about doing it, I want do to it and live it. So this will be my trading accountability structure. All of you will be my accountability partners, and I want every one who reads this blog to help out. You guys can post your trades her as well and we can get some group feedback. I will write all the entry points as well as stop loss, and take profit target. I will also include my pre-trade analysis as to way I take each trade.

The other reason I am going to post my trades is because I have been getting tons of emails about my trades and strategies. In addition to helping me in my trading I believe this will help everybody else as well. To keep my entries to a manageable number I will only post swing trades with a daily, 4hr, or 1 hr entry candles.

I am always writing about keeping a Forex Trading Journal so now I will teach you how to keep one as well by following this journal. The journal will start tomorrow because it is the first of the month. It is easier to show someone something then it is to tell someone about it. This way I will be showing you how to keep a journal. Please join me and participate in this Forex trading journal because as always your participation is what is going to make this a success. Winners Edge Trading would not be here if it was not for this great community. If you like this idea or have any other ideas about how I should proceed please include it the comments below.

To follow the Trades in the journal click on the category Forex Trading Journal or Click Here

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  • Pius

    Great..great, love the idea.

  • marco castro

    casey , thanks a lot for your interest,
    i follow the trades you put and i analiza them so you are teaching me how to analize them
    god bless you

  • http://twitter.com/kjfxmonk kj wojciechowski

    Sounds like a plan! ;-)

  • http://ffxd.blogspot.com FFXD

    You're welcome and also, you are far more experienced than I am and I'm sure I'll get to learn a lot from you.

  • Soccerhed

    I don't know if I have “it” yet. More like a work in motion. Still pull the trigger too soon on profitable runs. I financial model a lot now and trade only 1 pair. I think that the biggest mistake starting out is to try and swallow the market whole and work 6 pair in different time frames. The other end of the rainbow is the robots. Been there, done that, lost my money.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Me too,

    thanks and come back again.

    Casey

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Janet,
    My personal trading journal is for everyone to read I just haven't started yet. I didn't get a chance to trade today because of my schedule but I hope I will find a good opportunity tonight.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Patrick lets try to keep this as simple as we can that way it will be easy to reproduce and do it again.

    Thanks for the comment and I lets see what we can do.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Robert,

    You are the reason we do what we do, thanks so much for the appreciation. If we stick together we can do something great.

    I look forward to future comments.

    Thanks

    Casey

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    I looked at your site and it looks like you have a trading journal of sorts on there already. This could be a great learning experience for both of us.

    Thanks for the comment please come by again.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Jon,

    That in my opinion is true wisdom learning from someone that has all ready gone through it so that way you can learn much faster.

    Thanks for the comment please visit again soon.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Larry,

    I was wondering what happened to you. Glad to see you are still around. :) I will work on adding all of that information in my journal and if I don't just gently remind me.

    Thanks for the comment and I look forward to hearing from you again soon.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Ray,

    That is how I am hoping this will work as well as teaching us all how to conduct our trading journals it will also help us work on our trading strategies.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    thanks you, pleas come again.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    I hear you there it took me some time as well. But I love it when I think about how I finally got it and that is so cool. Thanks for visiting and for sharing that little piece of information about yourself. If you ever have any questions please stop by.

  • zamri ibrahim

    I hope we can get more profit thank.

  • Janet Sacher

    Hi Casey, I am not seeing your trade journal. Is it only open for your subscribers?

  • Patrick Mercier

    Thank you, that is a very welkom contribution to help all of us become successful traders. Many of us have tried to keep a trading journal, ending up with something that is so complicated and involved it becomes useless. Looking forward to your advice and guidance.

  • Soccerhed

    HR outsourcing, benefits, compensation, payroll. With Obamacare, we're in for a wild ride and my business will be changing dramtically in 3 years. So instead of having my business own me, I decided to take control and get another option. After 30 months of fumbling around in Forex, I finally wrote “it” down and now I have a reference point. Too bad I didn't follow my own advice 30 months ago. Experience is great to have, I just wish it had been someone elses' money teaching me the wrong way to do this for 2+ years!

  • Robertt

    Casey,

    I am a new student who started just two weeks ago in your program. As a matter of fact, I only just started Forex 4 months ago. Your journal postings is a great idea. I just wanted to say that Winnersedgetrading has been awesome.Thank you Casey and everybody who has been a part of it .<guest2>

  • http://ffxd.blogspot.com FFXD

    Great! I'm looking forward to it as well.

  • http://twitter.com/jc_giggsy john cox

    like it Casey…sounds just what I need in my quest to improve.

    ukjohn

  • jon

    Thanks casey, looking forward to it, and learning some good lessons from someone who's been trading forex a lot longer than myself.

  • Larry Hoover

    Casey,

    What you are doing requires great courage. WOW! You sure got my attention and I sure will be checking out your site much more often. Have gotten sidetracked but hope to get going again real soon. Thanks for all your help. Larry

    In my little journal I keep a won/loss record along with the percent won/lost of the trades and also a running cum of pips profit. Would these be possible for you to do? Haven't read the comments below yet so not sure if others have suggested something similar or not???

  • Ray barton

    Good waiting for the swing trde set up to see if they match what I have

  • kamal bahrin bahari

    commendable effort. tq

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    I will be posting my trades as they happen then I will update later. They will be located right here on the blog and it will be in the category forex trade journal.

    Thank you for your comments and thanks for visiting please come back.

  • Ernie Hallmark

    Great idea. Are you going to post these trades in real time, or at some point after the fact?
    Also, will this be accessible directly from the Winner's Edge site, or do we have to go to another location to access the information?
    I'm looking forward to following you, and learning from you in this project.
    Thanks for constantly trying to make trading better, more satisfying, and more profitable.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Thanks for the comment, What business are you in?

  • Soccerhed

    I with you. we have a rule in my business,,, If it's not in writing, it didn't happen. I am eager to see the journal

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Dave, Thanks for the comment. You should start your blog up again nobody could write about trading like you could. :)

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Iman, I am not the first nor the last but I do want to improve always so it seems like this is the right thing to do in this case. I hope I can light a path for other traders to follow.

  • http://Tradefxforaliving.blogspot.com Dave Campbell

    Good idea, Casey. Thumbs up. There are so many out there that talk a load of crap about what they have done but there is nothing like a bit of transparency to separate the wheat from the chaff.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Vernice thanks for the comment. This is great to hear that you have been motivated to start your own trading journal. Please keep us all informed as to if this will help your trading.

    Thanks

    Casey

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Dale, How have you been?

    Thanks for the comment and I hope this will help you and others. :)

  • http://imiforex.mihanblog.com Iman

    Hi,
    One of the best way to improve in our life is sharing idea with others and when you have started to write about your stratedgy you are going to have a better and bigger picture of it.
    In my opinion, you are the first person to correct and improve your way in this field by reviewing your suggestion and also find btter way to get profit.
    As well, you are helping those people who have lost their gut in Forex and newbies.
    Wish you the best
    Iman

  • Vernice

    Have been reading the weekly analysis you sent and they are insightful…This is a good idea to keep track of trades and avoid impulsive or revenge trades..really nice of you to share your trades with us…sharing is part of learning process too..you have just motivated me to start my own journal too..

  • Dale Fitzpatrick

    That is very generous of you. God bless you.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Yes, Journal must be readable so that we can go back and review so hopefully after a while your own trade journal will be rock solid.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Yes, that happens to me too, I will often make a trade out of boredom or just because I can.

    So this should help all of us control our impulse trading. Thanks for the comment and I hope to hear your thoughts as this progresses.

  • Quinn

    Great Idea. This helps me because my journal notes could use some clarity. I have to remember that if I want a journal to be valuable, it has to be readable. Also, if it's worth putting on a trade, it's worth writing about. Since I am new to trading I look at daily or 4hour charts and try to use what I am learning about price action. I think too many indicator(besides lagging) clutter the process. I like the EMA because it provides a weighted price trail. Other than that, price action seems like the best. Thanks for everything so far

  • Heike

    Great Casey…I have been having trouble controlling my impulse trading. This will help me greatly!!!

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Thanks Michael G, come back and take part in this little experiment.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    As far as being brilliant, It was how I was taught to learn buy spending time with people.

    Thanks for the comment and I appreciate your support and this is an exciting undertaking we are going for.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    You are welcome I think together we will all see some more pips.

  • http://www.winnersedgetrading.com caseystubbs

    Forex Chick, I looked at your blog and I looks like you have the right idea there. Maybe you would like to do a guest post sometime?

  • http://twitter.com/forexchickblog Forex Chick

    I am excited and eager to read your blog posts, thanks Casey!

  • Michael G

    Great idea Casey.

  • Julius Olutokun

    Thank you Casey, this is a brilliant idea and will definitely help some of us who are understudying you. It will also serve as a training system for us so that we will know the things that move the market. More grease to your elbow Mr. Trendy.

  • James Ding

    great looking forword to it. and thanks

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