Regardless of if you are trading options, stocks, penny stocks or even forex, a trade journal is essential to becoming a successful trader. A trade journal not only acts as a trade log recording your past trades, but also lets you record you past feelings and reasoning behind plays and journal out your approach. This is useful on many levels, as this can help you easily spot your trading strengths an weaknesses. In this video, Brendan goes over trading journals/logs and shows his log and how he uses it in conjunction with his trading. We are putting this video out as this is something we feel is useful for every trader, regardless of skill level, beginner or expert. Everyone should utilize a trading log, and this is something most traders have definitely heard before, however it is something to easily forget when you start trading, especially if you trade often. Don’t get in the habit of not logging your trades. As you can see from this, one benefit of a trade journal, is that it slows you down and forces you to do you due diligence and stop and think about a stock before making a play. As I said earlier, it doesn’t matter what you are trading when it comes to using a trading journal. You can log your options trades, your penny stock trades and day trades. If you are going to trade those assets at the very least you should be logging your trades. Moral: At the end of the day, men lie, women lie, numbers don’t. That is the beauty of a trading journal. Please SUBSCRIBE to the channel LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT so I have questions to answers and things to talk about. If you think you can hang with the brothers and are qualified to be one of the 25 people we accept every quarter to join my 3-month mentoring program, where you are able to watch me trade stocks LIVE every second of the day, every day of the week and be able to ask me questions live while I trade, go to http://www.thetradingfraternity.com to request and application. The lazy an un-dedicated need not apply. If you have any questions about me or what we do, I have a 9,000 word FAQ here: http://www.thetradingfraternity.com/FAQ If you haven't done so follow me on social media! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/JoshAnswers instagram: http://www.instagram.com/TheTradingFraternity Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TradingFraternity Sign up to be a TTF Citizen and get access to our private LIVE webinars 2x a week, private newsletter, and REAL ESTATE chatroom!: http://www.TTFCitizen.com Apply for mentorship: http://www.TheTradingFraternity.com