Rooi Forex Academy

🎯 Why Journaling Works

✔ Builds self-awareness
✔ Exposes bad habits
✔ Reinforces discipline
✔ Improves consistency over time

👉 This is how you go from random trading → structured performance

🧠 Real Life Example

Think of a professional athlete 🏃‍♂️

After every game, they review:

• What worked ✔
• What didn’t ❌
• What to improve 🎯

👉 Trading is the same:

Review → Improve → Repeat

⚠️ Mistakes (What went wrong?)

Be honest. This is how you grow.

👉 Example:

• Entered without confirmation
• Risked too much
• Moved Stop Loss

👉 One mistake repeated = a habit

👉 One corrected = progress

This How You Journal Your Trades, Keeping Track of your Trades helps with Your Psychology. Do the right thing and Journal your Trades.

🧠 Emotion (How did you feel?)

This is where most traders improve the most.

👉 Example:

• “I felt scared, closed early”
• “I was confident, followed plan”
• “I had FOMO and entered late”

👉 Over time, you’ll see patterns like:

• Fear = cutting winners
• Greed = holding losers

🔴 Exit (How did the trade end?)

Document how the trade was closed.

👉 Example:

• Hit Take Profit ✅
• Hit Stop Loss ❌
• Closed early 😬

👉 This helps you see:

Are you disciplined… or emotional?

📊 What You Must Track

🟢 1. Entry (Why did you take the trade?)

Write down your exact reason for entering.

👉 Example:

• Buy at support
• Trend = bullish
• Confirmation = bullish engulfing

👉 This shows if you are following your plan or just guessing.

📅 Journaling System (Where Growth Happens)

📢 This is what separates beginners from professionals.

Most traders take trades… but never review them.

👉 If you don’t track it, you can’t improve it.

🔥 Final Lesson

Your plan:

✔ Removes emotions
✔ Builds discipline
✔ Creates consistency

👉 You don’t rise to your emotions…

👉 You fall to your system.

🧠 Real Life Example

Think of a pilot ✈️

Before takeoff, they follow a checklist:

• Fuel ✔
• Engine ✔
• Weather ✔

If s omething is missing → they DO NOT take off.

👉 Trading is the same:

No confirmation = no trade.

🎯 Golden Rule

“No plan = no trading”

If your setup is not in your plan:
👉 You are gambling.