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1. Trading Journal.
In the spirit of beating a dead horse.
I've tried many spreadsheet versions of trade journals and logs - even ones
that automatically update prices across the web. They all were abandoned
because they could not adapt to my changing methods and needs for
information content.
Now I put my thoughts and trade data in TC2000 notes. This is free form and
accompanied by a chart I can annotate.
I still maintain an excel spreadsheet, but only with completed trade P&L
results - I use this to calc accumulated results.
All my whys, hows, and LessonsLearned are in TC2000. Once a quarter, I have
a marathon effort of moving the TC2000 notes to word docs and purging the
system - that's really the only time I go back over them, but a very
important time for me.
This system has the virtue of having TC2000 and all the trade data displayed
on my righthand panel, and TradeStation on the left.
Action - Left; Information - Right.
IMHO TC2000 is a super tool for maintaining a 'trade journal'. Just hit
CTRL N and put your thoughts down.
works for me, daver
2. Trading plans.
Everyone has one - in the head or on paper. Whether head or paper doesn't
correlate with good or bad. Webvan probably had a 200+ page written plan.
I bet Bill Gates and co, didn't have a plan on paper when they went down to
meet with IBM in FL and create history.
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