TRADING JOURNAL
By CoinTradeUp Team
published in April 02, 2025
The trading journal, or trading diary, is designed to help you track, analyze, and optimize your trading activities on our trading simulation platform. Whether you are a casual or passionate trader, here's how it works and what it can do for you.
What is the Trading Journal?
The Trading Journal compiles all your operations—automatic and manual—into a clear and organized table. It allows you to:
- Visualize your purchases, sales, and performance.
- Analyze your decisions with notes, custom tags, and graphical analyses.
- Improve your strategy with a detailed history.
How Does It Work?
- Automatic Entries As soon as you make a trade, an entry is automatically created in your journal. These entries include essential details: product, quantity, price, and date. To start, click on "Initialize Automatic Journals" (button visible only if you have a user profile and the initialization has not yet been done).
- Manual Entries You can add your own personal analyses via the "Add Analysis" button. Fill in the fields such as product, action (buy/sell), quantity, and add tags or notes to contextualize your decision. This is perfect for tracking off-platform trades or noting your thoughts.
- Customization Tags allow you to categorize your entries (e.g., "long-term strategy," "mistake"). Easily add them by typing in the designated field—if they don't exist, they will be created for you.
On each line of the journal, you can also indicate the reason for taking a trade, your current mood, and attach up to 5 files or graphical analyses (which you can directly create on the site using the real-time charts available for each crypto). - Editing and Tracking Click on an entry to view details or edit it. Add analysis images over time, update your notes, or adjust tags to keep your journal up-to-date.
Why Use It?
- Clarity: All your operations are centralized, no more scattered files.
- Analysis: Identify what works (or doesn't) with your tags and notes.
- Progression: Track your performance over time to become a better trader.
Getting Started
If you don't have a profile yet, create one in a few clicks to unlock the journal (link available on the dashboard). Then, initialize your automatic entries and start adding your manual analyses. The initialization button disappears once your data is synchronized, but you can always enrich your journal manually.
Ready to take control of your trading? Your Trading Journal is here to support you every step of the way. Try it now!