Your journal should contain the following information: date market internals (bullish, bearish or neutral market condition based on your review of market internals outlined above) stock symbol source of idea reason for consideration of trade (double bottom, dragonfly doji, bear flag, etc.) sector performance confirmation RSI confirmation MACD confirmation check for coming events like earnings reports entry price (desired) stop out price target price reward/risk actual entry price actual exit price profit/loss comments (scan used, what did and didn’t work, improvements for future)
