How to Track Trading Setups: Tag Trades Before Adding More Indicators

Adding indicators won’t tell you which setup you used on trades already in your journal. This article explains how to make setup performance easier to review by tagging each trade with the pattern or strategy you intended to use. Start with a small set of clear names, and reuse the same label whenever the same setup appears. In TradeTally, setup tags are free-form, so you can define your own vocabulary. Once trades are tagged, you can group them in edge reports and compare setup-level results with your overall performance. The article also explains why consistent labels matter and cautions that grouped results describe your records—they don’t prove why a setup performed as it did or predict future outcomes.

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