My first trades had a lot of data, but also too much room for interpretation.
I could think a trade entry met my setup, only to discover later that a condition was missing. Or believe I was working with a 1:3 R:R when the actual calculation was different.
After 36 records, I kept modifying the spreadsheet to reduce that room for interpretation even further.
Today I finished the first public version of my Educational Trading Journal.
The idea isn’t to predict the market.
It’s something much simpler: