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A trading journal that can challenge your story

Write the plan before the result is known. Record context, hypothesis, invalidation, intended action, actual action and review time. Separate process adherence from financial outcome: a profitable deviation is still a deviation, and a planned loss does not automatically invalidate a method. Include skipped trades and missing observations so hindsight cannot select the sample.

Trading example

A trader remembers three winning breakouts but omitted four failed signals. A complete observation log exposes that selection before anyone claims a repeatable edge.

Try this in your journal

Record ten consecutive observations using one unchanged template. Count adherence and missing fields; reserve strategy changes for a scheduled review.

Check your understanding

Could another reader reconstruct your decision without knowing the outcome? Are losses, missed signals and no-trade decisions included?

Verify with the official source

Background sources explain the concepts and market risks; they do not validate our questionnaire or its scores. Examples and exercises here are educational scenarios, not audited trading results.

How this integrated assessment works

Original MBTI-inspired questions, not the official MBTI instrument. Descriptive self-report, not a validated psychological diagnosis or investment recommendation.

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