Record
The reason, while you still believe it.
Thesis, stop loss, target and how confident you felt — captured at the buy, when it is still an honest account rather than a memory reshaped by the outcome.
For NEPSE traders
Every trade, and why you took it.
Write the thesis before the trade. Read it again after. Then find out which of your reasons actually made money.
NHPC
Breakout retestClosed, 34 daysOne entry in a journal
Thesis, written before the buy
“Reclaimed the range it broke down from, on rising volume. Stop below the retest low. Wrong if it closes back inside.”
Review, written after the sell
“Thesis held, but I sold half on the first red day rather than at my target. Nerves, not the plan.”
- Felt going in
- 4 / 5
- confident
- Felt coming out
- 2 / 5
- rattled
- Result
- +Rs 4,760.77
- after every charge
- Held
- 34 days
- quantity-weighted
The note and the number sit on the same record, so neither can be read without the other.
Write it down. Read it back.
Review
What you said, beside what happened.
Every fill in the cycle, the real result, and your own words from before it played out. Most of what a journal teaches lives in that gap.
Learn
Your history, answering back.
Win rate, expectancy, profit factor and drawdown — then the same figures split by setup, sector, holding period, tag and mood.
Setups and tags
Name your plays, then check them.
Tag each cycle with the setup you thought you were taking. After twenty trades the journal can tell you which of them you should keep taking.
| Setup | Trades | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Breakout retest | 14 | +Rs 38,412 |
| Range low bounce | 9 | +Rs 7,905 |
| Earnings punt | 6 | −Rs 12,240 |
Illustrative figures. Yours will say something else, which is the point.
Entered at 5 / 5 confidence
31%
win rate — against 58% on the trades taken at a 3. The journal will not tell you why certainty costs you money. It will tell you that it does.
How you felt
The part you would rather forget.
Rate your conviction going in and your nerve coming out. It takes two taps, and it is the column that ends up explaining the most.
Prices
Closing prices arrive on their own.
Every NEPSE close is fetched after the session and marked against your open positions, dated so you can see how fresh it is.1
Nothing to type
No price field to keep up to date
Dated, not implied
Every mark says which session it is from
Whole market
Listings update themselves too
If it sold today
The exit priced at that close, in full
What a trade really cost
A review is only as honest as its numbers.
So the result on every entry is net of broker commission, SEBON fee, the DP fee — charged once a day, not once a trade — and capital gains tax at the rate each parcel of shares earned.2
- Reconciles to the paisa
- Checked against a real broker contract note, including the weighted average cost its Eff. Rate line shows.
- 22.5%
- of gross profit went to charges on one small position. That figure is on your dashboard, not buried.
- Dated rules
- Each trade is costed with the rates in force on its own date, so last year's trades keep last year's arithmetic.
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