Introduction — Trading Journal Series

Welcome to the Trade Journal Series by Zen Trader. (Yes, first name Zen, family name Trader). I have decided to use Medium as my daily trade journal. This will be the place where I post all my trades along with attached charts, comments about why I took the trades and general thoughts about trading and markets.

With this series I hope to achieve a couple of things. Firstly, I would like to improve on my trade journaling process. I do journal a bit even now but most of it is restricted to chart screenshots. That does not give me information about my own reasoning behind taking the trade and how I felt about it after taking the trade. It may be useful to look back at this information at a later point to improve my trading process. Secondly, I hope that it will bring a certain accountability to my own trading decision. Its harder taking a trade that you know you shouldn’t in full public view.

Another thing that I would like to get out of this is feedback from anyone who is willing. I’m always looking to improve on my trading so any help with that would be greatly appreciated.

About my trading style

I would describe my trading style as swing trading in high momentum stocks. I try to look for stocks which have made strong moves recently with the hope of catching another move in the same direction. I trade long only in Indian equities currently. My typical holding period is a few days to a couple of weeks.