The benefits of hand journaling

[remote_joe]

Continuing the discussion from Trading log spreadsheet or software that will import trades from Nadex?:

@remote_joe

Here is a good trading log

New trading log with analysis

Beyond using that you could try building something in Google Sheets. There are ways to build a dashboard that will analyze your data. You could download the .csv from Nadex and copy paste into google sheets. Here are a few articles on it. How to create a dynamic dashboard in Google Sheets to track digital sales Building A Business Dashboard Using Google Spreadsheets

I agree hand journaling sucks but I have pulled the data from NADEX and its not really that use able with out some clean up. They really could add some more data segmentation. Like a column that denotes spread or binary. The contract cost is another issue.

Hand journals solve this problem because you can enter the trade and data as you see fit. you can also add dimensions that Nadex doesn’t know. Was this an Iron Condor, A News Trade? Did you start at one level then close for a loss only to rebuy the a different strike again closer to expiry for a win? Raw data doesn’t tell these stories. if you think about it hand journaling also allows you to be more accountable and most likely will slow down your trading since you have the to take the time to log each trade as it happens.