Where is my trading journal stored?

In this browser’s own storage on this device, and nowhere else. Nothing is sent to GIO4X or to any server, so the journal is not available in another browser or on another device unless you export it as a CSV file and import that file there.

What happens if I clear my browser data?

The journal is deleted with the rest of this site’s data, and nobody can restore it, because no copy exists outside your browser. The CSV export is the backup: keep an exported file somewhere safe and import it again if the journal is lost.

What is expectancy in a trading journal?

Expectancy per trade is the sum of every result divided by the number of trades: what one of the recorded trades came to on average. It describes the trades already written down. It does not say what the next trade will do.

What is a profit factor?

The sum of the gaining trades divided by the sum of the losing trades. Above 1, the gains so far were larger than the losses; below 1, the losses were larger. It is a summary of past trades and says nothing certain about future ones.

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Trading journal

Write each trade down: what the plan was, what happened, and how you felt. The page keeps the list in this browser, works out the figures from it and draws the running total. A journal records what happened. It does not say what will.

Before you write anything

Where the journal is kept.

Read this first. It is the whole of what happens to what you type here.

Reference dataYour own entries, kept in this browser. Educational information, not investment advice or a recommendation to trade.

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It stays in this browser.
The journal is written to this browser’s own storage, on this device, under one entry. A different browser, a different device or a private window will not have it.
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It is sent nowhere.
No trade, note or figure on this page is sent to GIO4X or to anyone else. There is no account behind it and no copy on a server, so nobody can restore it for you.
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Clearing site data deletes it.
If you clear this site’s data, or your browser clears it for you, the journal goes with it. So does “Delete everything” at the foot of the journal.
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The CSV export is the backup.
Export makes a file on your device that this page can read back. It is the only copy outside this browser, and it is yours to keep safe.

The journal

A trade, written down.

One entry for each trade that is over. The journal holds up to 500. Every figure below is worked out from your entries, and each has its definition beside it.

The running total

The journal is read from this browser once the page has loaded.

Each point is the sum of your results up to that trade, in date order. It is drawn from what you typed. It is a record of the past and not a forecast.

The figures, and what each one means

The journal is read from this browser once the page has loaded.

Trades: …Every trade written in the journal. It holds up to 500.
Net result: …The sum of every result: the point where the curve ends.
Share that gained: …Trades with a result above zero ÷ all trades. A result of exactly zero is neither a gain nor a loss.
Average gain: …The sum of the gains ÷ the number of trades that gained.
Average loss: …The sum of the losses ÷ the number of trades that lost.
Expectancy per trade: …The net result ÷ the number of trades: what one of these trades came to on average. It describes the trades written here, not the next one.
Profit factor: …The sum of the gains ÷ the sum of the losses. Above 1 the gains were the larger; below 1 the losses were.
Largest gain: …The single highest result.
Largest loss: …The single lowest result.
Longest losing run: …The most losing trades one after another, by date. A result of exactly zero ends a run.

The same trades, in groups

A group is shown from 3 trades. “Gained” is the share of the group with a result above zero; “Total” is the sum of its results; “Average” is the total ÷ the trades in the group. A difference between two small groups is often chance.

Plan followed, and not
Followed my plan	Trades	Gained	Total	Average
Yes	…
No	…

By mood
Mood	Trades	Gained	Total	Average
Calm	…
Rushed	…
Bored	…
Fearful	…
Confident	…

By day of the week
Day	Trades	Gained	Total	Average
Monday	…
Tuesday	…
Wednesday	…
Thursday	…
Friday	…
Saturday	…
Sunday	…

Every trade

The journal is read from this browser once the page has loaded.

Back it up, print it, or delete it

Export makes a CSV file in this browser: nothing is uploaded. Import reads a file this page exported and adds its trades to those already here; a file with anything wrong in it is refused whole. Printing uses your browser’s own print window, where “Save as PDF” is one of the printers.

What it is, and is not

A record, not a forecast.

People keep a journal to see what they did, set beside what they had meant to do. That is all this one shows. The arithmetic behind a trade’s size is on the Position Size tool, and the Rule bench shows how easily one good run misleads.

It records what you typed.
The result of a trade is the figure you enter from your own statement. The page does not check it against the prices, and it cannot: it does not know a contract size, a commission or a swap.
The figures describe the past.
A share that gained, an expectancy, a profit factor: each is arithmetic on trades that are over. None of them is a property of the next trade, and past results say nothing about future ones.
Small numbers mislead.
Figures for the whole journal appear from 5 trades and for a group from 3, and even then a handful of trades can look like a pattern by chance. A difference between two moods or two weekdays is a question to look into, not a finding.
It is not advice.
The page does not say what to trade, when, or how much, and it does not judge a trade. What the entries mean is for the person who wrote them to work out.

Questions people ask

About the journal.

Where is my trading journal stored?: In this browser’s own storage on this device, and nowhere else. Nothing is sent to GIO4X or to any server, so the journal is not available in another browser or on another device unless you export it as a CSV file and import that file there.
What happens if I clear my browser data?: The journal is deleted with the rest of this site’s data, and nobody can restore it, because no copy exists outside your browser. The CSV export is the backup: keep an exported file somewhere safe and import it again if the journal is lost.
What is expectancy in a trading journal?: Expectancy per trade is the sum of every result divided by the number of trades: what one of the recorded trades came to on average. It describes the trades already written down. It does not say what the next trade will do.
What is a profit factor?: The sum of the gaining trades divided by the sum of the losing trades. Above 1, the gains so far were larger than the losses; below 1, the losses were larger. It is a summary of past trades and says nothing certain about future ones.

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Plan followed, and not
Followed my plan	Trades	Gained	Total	Average
Yes	…
No	…

Plan followed, and not

Followed my plan

Trades

Gained

Total

Average

Yes

…

By mood
Mood	Trades	Gained	Total	Average
Calm	…
Rushed	…
Bored	…
Fearful	…
Confident	…

By mood

Mood

Trades

Gained

Total

Average

Calm

…

Rushed

…

Bored

…

Fearful

…

Confident

…

By day of the week
Day	Trades	Gained	Total	Average
Monday	…
Tuesday	…
Wednesday	…
Thursday	…
Friday	…
Saturday	…
Sunday	…

By day of the week

Day

Trades

Gained

Total

Average

Monday

…

Tuesday

…

Wednesday

…

Thursday

…

Friday

…

Saturday

…

Sunday

…

Trading journal

Where the journal is kept.

It stays in this browser.

It is sent nowhere.

Clearing site data deletes it.

The CSV export is the backup.

A trade, written down.