Your Next Indicator Won't Fix What a Journal Would
You added the RSI. Then a moving average. Then a volume filter, a second timeframe, maybe a sentiment feed. Your chart looks like a cockpit now. And you’re still losing money in the same three ways you were a year ago.
Here’s the uncomfortable part. The next indicator won’t fix it. The thing that would fix it is a plain text file where you write down why you took the trade and how you felt when you did.
I resisted this for years. Journaling sounded like homework, like something a trading coach sells you because they’ve run out of real advice. Then I actually did it for ninety days, and it showed me a pattern no chart ever could.
An indicator describes the market. A journal describes you. Those are different problems. The market wasn’t the reason I sold Bitcoin in the red at 6am after checking my phone in...
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