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The Trading Journal Playbook

What to write on every trade and why, filled-in entries across markets, the pre-trade checklist, the weekly and monthly review with the arithmetic shown, and the same columns on paper, in a spreadsheet or an app.

Every formula printed from the template workbook itself, every example's R worked from its prices, and every vendor fact dated to the vendor's own page.

30 pages · A4 PDF · edition 1.0.0

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What's inside

What to write on every trade, and why each of the template's eighteen columns exists, in the order you fill them
13 filled-in entries across forex, gold, an index CFD, a partial close, a prop-firm evaluation day, a skipped trade and a backtest, every Risk, Result and R worked from the prices
The pre-trade checklist, and how a month of mistake tags turns into checks of your own
The weekly review: five numbers with the arithmetic shown, plan Y against plan N, what each mistake tag cost, and one rule a week
The monthly review and calendar, and a backtest journal kept apart from live
Every one of the template's formulas, printed from the file and explained; MT5 trades in without typing; AI on your journal without made-up numbers
Paper, spreadsheet or app, with five subscription journals' facts dated to their own pages, and two printable cards

01
What to write on every trade, and why each column existsEighteen columns in the order you fill them: before you click, after you exit, and the two the sheet works out.
02
Filled-in entries: forex, gold, an index, a prop-firm day and a skipped tradeEvery kind of trade a review has to count, written the way Sunday can use it, with the arithmetic shown.
03
The pre-trade checklist, and how to build your ownTen checks, each a yes or no trade, then the way a month of mistake tags turns into checks of your own.
04
Notes and screenshots worth keepingThree short notes a trade, two pictures for the ones you study, and the rewrite that turns a diary line into a count.
05
The weekly review: five numbers, worked, and one ruleTwenty minutes on Sunday: five numbers from the week's rows, the costliest tag, and one rule for next week.
06
The monthly review and the calendarA month on one page: each day's R, the running total with and without broken rules, and next month's rule.
07
The backtest journal, kept apart from liveThe same columns in a separate log, the costs written in, and the comparison that shows whether replay lied.
08
The same columns in Excel and Google Sheets: every formula explainedThe template's 3 sheets, its two row formulas and its 23 Summary formulas, read from the file, line by line.
09
Getting MT5 trades in without typing themThree routes into any journal, the MT5 report mapped column by column, and four checks before you trust it.
10
Using AI on your journal without made-up numbersThe one rule (code computes, the model explains), the prompts to paste, and "show me the rows".
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Paper, spreadsheet or app: choosing on the factsWhat each costs in time and money, when software earns its place, and five subscription journals, dated.
12
The printable cardsTwo pages beside the screen: the row, the checks and the numbers, then the weekly and monthly review.

A look at the pages

The cover: one trade from the template, split into what you write before entry, after the exit, and what Sunday counts

Chapter 5: the weekly review's five numbers worked on the template's three rows, expectancy −0.26R, plan Y +0.42R against N −1.63R

Chapter 12: the printable card, one row a trade, the Risk formula, the mistake tags, the five numbers and the ten pre-trade checks

Who it's for

Get it if

You keep a journal, or mean to, and want to know what each column is for and what to do with it on Sunday
You trade forex, gold, indices or a prop-firm account and want entries you can count, not a diary
You use our template or printable and want the method behind them, with every number worked

Skip it if

You want a journal that makes you profitable: no journal does, and this book claims nothing of the kind
You want a ready-made app: this is the method, on paper, in a spreadsheet or in any app you choose

Answers

How is this different from the template and the printable?

The template and the printable are blank forms. This is the method behind them: why each column exists, many filled-in entries with the arithmetic shown, the weekly and monthly review worked through, every template formula explained, MT5 imports, AI and how to choose a journal app.

Will keeping a journal make me profitable?

No book can promise that, and this one doesn't. A journal measures what you did; the review shows where the rule breaks and costs are, and whether the trades that followed your plan earn anything. The examples are fabricated or simulated, and say so.

Does it push TradeLens?

TradeLens is our journal, and the book labels it as ours wherever it appears, with what its own pages say it can't do. The method works on paper, in the spreadsheet template or in any app.

What do I get, and how?

One PDF, 30 pages, A4, readable on a phone, a tablet or paper. After payment the download is on the confirmation page and stays in your account, so you can download it again anytime.

Can I get a refund?

Yes, within 7 days if you haven't downloaded the PDF yet. Downloading it ends the refund, since the guide is then yours. A broken or incomplete file is refunded at any time.

Is it included in All-Access?

Yes. All-Access Monthly and Academy Premium members get every paid guide in their downloads, at no extra cost, from the day it opens.

Will it be updated?

When a fact in it changes (a price, a plan, a script), we correct it in a new edition. Your account always has the edition you bought.