By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer Hindsight bias in trading journals is the reason a diligent record can run for eight months and change nothing. The entries are honest. The trader is not lying to the page, and would pass a polygraph on every line. What has happened is subtler and…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Trading journal psychology has a well-documented problem: most journals are kept faithfully for months and change nothing. The entries are honest, often insightful, and frequently very well written. The behaviour they describe continues unaltered. Traders who notice this usually conclude they are journalling…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com Tools to track emotional trading patterns are usually chosen from a feature list, before anyone has settled what actually needs to be captured. The result is predictable: a complete record of trades, no record of behaviour, and a conclusion two months later that…
By Sofia Harchich | Trading Psychologist & Behavioural Finance Writer | thewealthmirror.com A trading journal for emotional traders fails at a different point from a journal kept for reviewing setups, and choosing the wrong method is the commonest reason the habit does not last a month. Setup review needs detail: screenshots, annotations, market context. Behavioural…
