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

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ICT: Alright guys, we are looking at some of the journals

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that I use when I'm logging all my experiences for the week.

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And I'm gonna give you a just a snapshot Obviously, I'm not

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gonna give you everything because journals are personal. And

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this is a brand new one, so it's a virgin. You can see it's

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very nice, nice leather. Now you don't have to go into

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journaling, like this. I've always used journals like this

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for at least the last 16 years or so. I wanted this style.

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This is actually a beautiful paper, it feels like linen. So

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I'm not sure if it would be something that you like to do,

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but for me, I've always found it. Just it's the hand submits

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it to me, I look at my recordings and my journal entries as

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something that's well intimate and precious to me. And I'm

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going to put them in something that's going to be. Well,

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interesting. Okay, it's not a plain white piece of paper. So

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what I generally do is every entry is all of this over here

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has trade related things. Things, I'm looking for key levels

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of potential setups, and over here will give me things that

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I have to worry about in terms of psychological things,

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things that I'm going through on a personal level, which is

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the reason why you're not going to see my journal because I

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don't want to go through the process of only looking at it

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like this. And it doesn't give you a real clear depiction of

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what I use for journal and I'm going to give you really the,

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the view of what it looks like in a snapshot view what I get

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these off Amazon, I used to pay a little bit more than I do

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now, getting it from the producer, but for whatever reason

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they sell them on Amazon for a better price. So I buy about

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12 to 15 of them at a time. So it gives me approximately

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about 1314 months. So it usually takes me to get through one

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journal and also journal. My my dreams I've done this since

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I was a teenager. So this isn't really anything to do with

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trading, but I got asked that talk about that as well. I'm

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not sure why this question is important in terms of

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answering but this is the pen of asked what pen I use in my

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journal. And I use this one simply because the paper and my

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journals are just really nice. It takes that ink very well.

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But here's what you probably been waiting for. And it's not

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overwhelming. No. But this is generally what my My journal

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entries look like I sit down and I usually doodle something.

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And I apologize if you hear anything outside because they're

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installing a new heating element in my driveway. So when it

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gets cold, it'll be able to melt this now and such, but

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usually some kind of a doodle or draw. And just, I've always

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done that. So they may not always be Asian centered, or

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martial arts centering, but there's usually some kind of a

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doodle shots in the lower right hand corner of the journal

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here. And then I just write down the information that has my

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expectations for the week. And this was my Monday's journal

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entry in this journal. You can see like I said, if if people

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see these things, it doesn't really mean a whole lot to

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anyone, especially if you're not familiar with mine

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information and my concepts but things before For, and this

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is, again, one small little area where I'm not trying to

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make that public. These are personal things that are on my

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mind. And I do a wellness in focus things I'm going to be

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worrying about conquering for that particular trading day or

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week and keeping them in focus. And then I have the weekly

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calendar, big rocks, which is basically the events I'm

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looking for, that's going to be more impactful for the week.

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And then I go up here and I record what my expectations are

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what I'm expecting to see things that are going to filter

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for my trade decisions. And I try to keep them really short

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and sweet and try not to have a whole lot of things and

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moving parts, and I put in something that would be a filter

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that would keep me from either participating again, or

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engaging or what it would take for me to change my mind and

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move to the sidelines. So anyway, I hope we found this

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insightful and I'll talk to you next time.