Trade Setup
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Trade Setup
Trade Setup is where you manually track trade quality, risk reward execution, and entry and exit timing. This data helps turn each trade into something you can review later, both individually and inside Journal Analytics.
What Trade Setup is used for
Trade Setup represents manual tracking of trade performance and entry and exit timing. It helps you document how the trade was planned, how it actually played out, and whether more profit was available after your exit.
Risk reward fields
Expected
Expected is the expected risk reward for the trade before execution. This is your planned trade quality.
Actual
Actual is the actual risk reward you achieved on the trade. It shows how close execution came to the original plan.
Max Potential
Max Potential tracks how far the chart moved after your trade opportunity developed. This helps show whether you exited at roughly the right time or whether you left profit on the table by exiting too early.
Entry and exit timing
The Entry and Exit dropdowns are used to classify your timing in hindsight.
Too Early
You acted before the cleaner or more efficient entry or exit was available.
Right on Time
Your timing matched the move well and execution was aligned with the opportunity.
Too Late
You entered or exited after the better moment had already passed.
Price Action
Price Action lets you classify how the chart behaved in hindsight. This gives extra context to the trade and helps explain whether the move was clean, difficult, or less predictable.
How this is used in Journal Analytics
These fields are used mostly in Journal Analytics, where they provide insight into execution quality and missed opportunity.
- How actual risk reward compares to expected risk reward
- How actual results compare to max potential
- Whether entries tend to be too early, right on time, or too late
- Whether exits tend to leave money on the table
- How much opportunity is being missed across trades over time
Trade Setup works best when you score trades consistently. The more consistent your inputs are, the more useful your Journal Analytics insights become.
Trade Setup
Trade Setup is where you manually track trade quality, risk reward execution, and entry and exit timing. This data helps turn each trade into something you can review later, both individually and inside Journal Analytics.
What Trade Setup is used for
Trade Setup represents manual tracking of trade performance and entry and exit timing. It helps you document how the trade was planned, how it actually played out, and whether more profit was available after your exit.
Risk reward fields
Expected
Expected is the expected risk reward for the trade before execution. This is your planned trade quality.
Actual
Actual is the actual risk reward you achieved on the trade. It shows how close execution came to the original plan.
Max Potential
Max Potential tracks how far the chart moved after your trade opportunity developed. This helps show whether you exited at roughly the right time or whether you left profit on the table by exiting too early.
Entry and exit timing
The Entry and Exit dropdowns are used to classify your timing in hindsight.
Too Early
You acted before the cleaner or more efficient entry or exit was available.
Right on Time
Your timing matched the move well and execution was aligned with the opportunity.
Too Late
You entered or exited after the better moment had already passed.
Price Action
Price Action lets you classify how the chart behaved in hindsight. This gives extra context to the trade and helps explain whether the move was clean, difficult, or less predictable.
How this is used in Journal Analytics
These fields are used mostly in Journal Analytics, where they provide insight into execution quality and missed opportunity.
- How actual risk reward compares to expected risk reward
- How actual results compare to max potential
- Whether entries tend to be too early, right on time, or too late
- Whether exits tend to leave money on the table
- How much opportunity is being missed across trades over time
Trade Setup works best when you score trades consistently. The more consistent your inputs are, the more useful your Journal Analytics insights become.