New plans on getting my trading life on track

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A trading journal is a powerful tool that helps traders on how to manage thier risk while trading by helping one to track, analyze, and refine your trading activities. There are some ways I have been managing my trade over time with a trading journal which assists me in carefully managing my risk:

Writing down my trades and thoughts helps me stay accountable for my actions, which also helps reduce impulsive decisions.

Pattern identification: My journal reveals patterns which I have taken notes on in my trading behavior, allowing me to recognize and correct risky habits which I tends to follow.

Trade analysis: Reviewing my trades helps me identify mistakes, fake up and stop loss hunt as the market is now filled with algorithm trading and bots for executing fast orders understandong what went wrong, and improve future decision-making tends to boost the trading journey.

Risk assessment: My journal helps me evaluate my risk tolerance, set realistic goals, and adjust your strategy accordingly to meet present market conditions.

Emotional control: Reflecting on ones emotions and reactions to market fluctuations helps me to develop emotional resilience and discipline as one tends to act like a robot to actually navigate the strong wave of the market.

Performance tracking: Monitoring my performance enables me to adjust my strategy, cut losses, and optimize your approach especially if the pattern is no longer consistent as there may be a change in trends of economic policy which influences the state of the market.

Learning from mistakes: My trading journal allows me to reflect on past errors, learn from them, and avoid repeating them, in the year 2022 I blew my $50k trading account which I haven't been able to recover from due too poor trading habits and inability to accept loss and move on learning from most of the mistakes my trading journal helps refresh my memory.

Strategy refinement: By analyzing trades, one can refine his or her strategy, as there is no one perfect strategy for trading the market as one has to adjust his risk and effectively manage it, and optimize the trading plan by learning more about the asset class been traded.

Mindfulness: Regularly writing in journal fosters mindfulness, helping me to stay in the present and focused in the midst of market volatility.

Improved discipline: Maintaining a trading journal has helped me in my disciplinary actions and inactions , helping me stick to your strategy and avoid impulsive decisions which usually gets me rekted as some times these emotions are overwhelming and one tends no to be patience enough to allow all the patterns fall in place.

By using a trading journal, I have develop a more systematic approach to trading, reduce impulsive decisions, and manage risk more effectively as I will be share some of my trade and my progress as I start afresh both in the crypto market and the traditional market.

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