Prepare Your Trading Journal Before the Close

The end of the session is a valuable review window, but it can disappear quickly if your journal is not ready. This guide explains how to make the first pass simple and repeatable: review the session’s trades, read relevant diary entries, check analytics, and compare the day with your playbooks. It also shows how a short, 15-minute review can capture the session while details are still fresh, while leaving deeper questions for later. For traders who review away from their desk, the article covers TradeTally’s iOS access to trades, analytics, diary entries, and playbooks, including support for cloud and self-hosted accounts. The focus is not on changing trading decisions, but on replacing memory-based reconstruction with a timely, structured review.

Read the full article: End of Day Trading Journal After the Close