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ICT YT - 2020-08-07 - What Journals I Use and An Example Entry.srt

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1 00:00:01,170 --> 00:00:14,760 ICT: Alright guys, we are looking at some of the journals that I use. When I'm logging all my experiences for the week and give you a just a snapshot,
2 00:00:14,790 --> 00:00:33,780 obviously, I'm not going to give you everything because journals are personal. And this is a brand new one, so it's a virgin. As you can see, it's very nice,
3 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:44,970 nice leather. Now you don't have to go into journaling, like this, I've always used journals like this for at least last 16 years or so I went to this style,
4 00:00:45,510 --> 00:00:59,760 this is actually a beautiful paper, it feels like linen. So I'm not sure if it would be something you'd like to do. But for me, I've always found it. Just the
5 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:10,410 handsome it's it to me, I look at my recordings and my journal entries as something that's well intimate and precious to me. And I want to put them in
6 00:01:10,410 --> 00:01:23,670 something that's going to be well, interesting. Okay, it's not a plain white piece of paper. So what I generally do is every entry is all of this over here
7 00:01:23,670 --> 00:01:35,040 has trade related things. Things I'm looking for key levels of potential setups in over here will give me things that I have to worry about in terms of
8 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:43,020 psychological things, things that I'm going through on a personal level, which is the reason why you're not going to see my journal, because I don't want to go
9 00:01:43,020 --> 00:01:51,330 through the process of only looking at it like this. And it doesn't give you a real clear depiction of what I use for a journal. And I'm going to give you
10 00:01:51,330 --> 00:02:05,310 really the the view of what it looks like. In a snapshot view what I get these off of Amazon, I used to pay a little bit more than I do now, getting it from
11 00:02:05,310 --> 00:02:16,170 the producer, but for whatever reason they sell them on Amazon for a better price. So I buy about 12 to 15 of them at a time. So it gives me approximately
12 00:02:16,170 --> 00:02:29,640 about 1314 months. So it usually takes me to get through one journal, and also journal. My my dreams I've I've done this since I was a teenager. So this isn't
13 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:40,320 really anything to do with trading. But I got asked to talk about that as well. I'm not sure why this question is important in terms of answering. But this is
14 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:54,000 the pen of asked what pen I use my journal. And I use this one simply because the paper in my journals are just really nice. It takes that ink very well. But
15 00:02:54,060 --> 00:03:03,540 here's what you probably been waiting for. And it's not overwhelming, no. But this is generally what my, my journal entries look like, I sit down and I
16 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:12,900 usually doodle something. And I apologize if you hear anything outside because they're installing a new heating element in my driveway. So when it gets cold,
17 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:27,330 it'll be able to melt the snow and such. But I usually some kind of doodle or draw. And just I've always done that. So they may not always be Asian centered,
18 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:38,640 or martial arts centered. But there's usually some kind of a doodle or sets in the lower right hand corner of the journal here. And then I just write down the
19 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:52,380 information that has my expectations for the week. And this was my Monday's journal entry in this journal, you can see, like I said, if if people see these
20 00:03:52,380 --> 00:04:01,320 things, it doesn't really mean a whole lot to anyone, especially if you're not familiar with my information and my concepts. But the things I'm looking for in
21 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:12,150 this is, again, one smaller area where I'm not trying to make that public. These are personal things that are on my mind. And I do have a wellness and a focus
22 00:04:12,330 --> 00:04:21,330 things I'm going to be worrying about conquering for that particular trading day or week and keeping them in focus. And then I have the weekly calendar big
23 00:04:21,330 --> 00:04:30,990 rocks, which is basically the events that I'm looking for, that's going to be more impactful for the week. And then I go up here and record what my
24 00:04:30,990 --> 00:04:38,940 expectations are what I'm expecting to see things that are going to filter for my trade decisions. And I've tried to keep them really short and sweet and try
25 00:04:38,940 --> 00:04:47,160 not to have a whole lot of things and moving parts and I put in something that would be a filter that would keep me from either participating again, or
26 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:56,220 engaging or what it would take for me to change my mind and move to the sidelines. So anyway, I hope we found this insightful and I'll talk to you next
27 00:04:56,220 --> 00:04:56,490 time.