Writing on trading journaling & discipline

Every strategy loses sometimes. The traders who survive long enough to compound real gains are the ones who can tell the difference between normal variance and a genuine signal that something is broken. Here's how to actually make that call.

Ask a trader how often they win and the number they give you is almost always higher than reality. Memory is selective, math gets fuzzy, and no one logs the trades they'd rather forget. A real journal corrects all of that — and what it shows you can be genuinely uncomfortable.

Most trading journals treat options like stocks with a few extra fields bolted on. Here's what genuinely matters — strike, expiration, days-to-expiration — and the pattern most options traders never see until they track it properly.