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Forex Trading Journal: What to Track and How to Review Your Trades
A forex trading journal is a structured record of every trade you place, kept specifically so you can measure whether…
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Upload your trading history and get your performance, risk, drawdown and the habits behind them, with an Edge Trading Score out of 100. Results appear on screen in seconds.
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How to export
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MetaTrader 4
- Open the Terminal window (Ctrl+T) and the Account History tab.
- Right-click and choose a period (All History is best).
- Right-click again and choose Save as Detailed Report.
- Upload the .htm file it saves.
MetaTrader 5
- Open the Toolbox (Ctrl+T) and the History tab.
- Right-click, choose Positions, then a period.
- Right-click again: Report, then HTML or Open XML (Excel).
- Upload the .html or .xlsx file.
CSV or Excel
Any export with one row per trade works if it has symbol, type (buy or sell), open and close time and profit. Commission, swap, lots, prices, stop loss and balance make the analysis more complete. Deal-by-deal exports with a position column are grouped into trades.
PDF reports are not supported: their tables cannot be read reliably.
How it works
A score built from fixed rules
| Category | Points | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Risk management | 30 | Typical risk per trade, stop losses or how far losses actually ran, position-size consistency |
| Drawdown control | 20 | The deepest fall in your balance from a previous high |
| Expectancy | 20 | Profit factor and the average result per trade |
| Consistency | 15 | Profitable weeks and months, reliance on single trades, stability over time |
| Discipline | 15 | Size after losses, busy-day results, holding losers, losing streaks |
Every figure is calculated from the trades in your file with fixed formulas, and every finding comes from a fixed rule. Nothing is estimated or generated: where a report lacks something, such as stop losses or a starting balance, that part is marked unavailable and its weight is shared among the rest, so a short export is not penalised.
Deposits, withdrawals and broker credit are never counted as profit. Partial closes are merged back into their original position. With fewer than 20 closed trades the score is withheld; 100 or more gives the most reliable picture.
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