A journal of paragraphs is unsearchable. Add a few consistent tags — the setup name, the timeframe, the session, whether you followed your plan — and suddenly you can ask real questions: what's my expectancy on this one setup? Do I lose money after 2pm? Are my plan-following trades better than my improvised ones? Almost always they are, by a margin that ends the argument about discipline permanently.
Check yourself
The point of tagging trades consistently is…
Neatness
So you can filter and compare — expectancy by setup, by session, by whether you followed the plan correct
To share with others
Consistent tags are what let you separate a good setup traded badly from a bad setup, which look identical in raw P&L.
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