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A Trading Diary: What To Record and How To Review It

Convert an operations register to verifiable questions: what happened, what rule was met and what information was missing to explain the difference.

Markets with AI · Materials prepared with support from AI · Updated 3 October 2026 · Method and limits.

The paper should retain the previous plan

If you write the hypothesis after knowing the result, you can reinterpret why you acted. Save the original condition, date and information available before decision. Then add execution and result to separate fields.

A response from AI can sum up the paper and find incomplete fields. He cannot prove his prior intention from a posteriori written account. Nor should I diagnose an emotional cause just because an operation resulted in loss.

Fields that allow an operation to be audited

BeforeLater
Instrument, product, currency and dateInputs and departures with their dates.
Status and ground for invalidationData to check compliance.
Quantity and assumed costThe quantity and cost actually registered.
Projected retirement and expiryRegistered ground for closure and deviation.
Absence and assumptionResult, limits of explanation and checks.

To compare markets, it keeps the specifications for each product. Two equal monetary performance can come from different exposures. Do not add up different percentages or asset units without a consistent definition of the metric.

Example of an anti-implementation plan

Invented case of a linear product: Input plan 100,20 €, adverse output 99,70 €, 40 units and cost 5 €. Retail registration: Input 100,25 €, output 99,60 €, 40 units and cost 6 €.

The intended loss was 25 €and that recorded (100,25 − 99,60) × 40 + 6 = 32 €. The difference is 7 €. You can decompose it at 2 €for the worse entrance, 4 €for the worse output and 1 €additional cost. That decomposition describes quantity and does not prove why they happened.

Promises to review the paper

Compare this fictitious plan with the registered execution of a linear product. Plan: Input 100,20 €, output 99,70 €, 40 units, total cost 5 €. Registration: Input 100,25 €, output 99,60 €, 40 units, total cost 6 €. It calculates both losses and decompons the difference without making up cause. Reforms plan, registration, difference and outstanding check. We don't know if the entry condition was met. Use only information provided. Separates fact, assumption and missing data. Don't make up prices, sources and results. Do not recommend buying or selling or assign probabilities without evidence.

That's what I'm talking about. That's what I mean. That page doesn't check a model automatically.

What can you ask the AI to check several rows

It starts with detecting different units, empty costs, duplicated rows and out of order dates. He then calculates metrics with an explicit definition. If you ask for a success rate, clear what you do with zero results. If you demand an expectation, check that gain and loss includes costs in the same way.

To evaluate compliance, it provides the rule and information about each case. The AI cannot conclude "the plan was fulfilled" just because the result was positive. Keep a compliance column and a cash result column and they can disagree.

Exercise: An operation earned money but there's no record of the previous rule. Can the AI certify that it was a proper execution?

No. He's got to admit that his previous plan lacks evidence. The benefit describes the result and doesn't itself prove compliance.

Labour privacy and maintenance

Use an anonymous copy with the fields that exercise needs. Eliminates account identifiers, credentials and personal data. Keep the original paper separate and don't let a summary replace the data.

After receiving the review, check two rows on your own and ask to correct concrete errors. Write down what's changed and why. You can start with the Fictitious case of free intradia course before applying the method to other asset logs.

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Sources to check

The examples are computed with fictitious data. The sources do not support a sign or a performance result of these exercises.

Practical questions about trading with ia: what to register and how to review

What columns does an AI trading paper require?

Save date, asset, product, currency, previous plan, size, entry, exit, costs and reason for review. It also preserves process errors even if the result of the operation is positive.

How do I check several operations with an AI assistant?

It provides a table with no personal data and requests that it separate compliance, execution and net result. It recalculates totals and requires references to rows before accepting patterns or explanations.

A gain proves I followed a good rule?

A winning operation can have an end to the plan and a loser can have respect for it. It looks at both aspects separately and a small sample cannot conclude that a rule will work in the future.

Fold with a lab

A and A Trading Daily Course: check the program and its sample to conduct this task with exercises and checks.