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Tracking your emotional state and tagging mistakes isn’t about judgment — it’s about building a dataset of your own behavior. Over time, patterns emerge that no P&L statement can reveal.

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Why this matters

Two traders can take the exact same setup with opposite results. The difference is usually behavioral — emotional reactivity, impulsive decisions, or rule violations made under pressure. By tagging emotions and mistakes on every trade, you create a record that surfaces these patterns. You start to see which emotional states lead to your best execution and which ones precede your worst trades.

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Emotional states

During journaling, you’ll tag your emotional state before and after the trade. You can select multiple emotions — most trades involve more than one. Emotions are grouped into three categories based on how they affect your trading, not whether they’re “good” or “bad” feelings. The same categories are used in the Game Plan for consistency.

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Composed (green)

These emotions support disciplined execution. Trades taken in a composed state tend to have higher Align Scores.

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Reactive (red)

These emotions signal a state where you are likely to break rules. Trades taken under reactive emotions often involve impulsive decisions or rule violations.
Revenge-driven is the most important emotion to tag honestly. It maps directly to the revenge trading mistake tag. When you flag this feeling, you create a direct signal connecting emotion → mistake → outcome that no other metric captures.

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Unsettled (amber)

These emotions could go either way. You might execute well or poorly — the outcome depends on your awareness and discipline.
Be honest, not aspirational. Tag what you actually felt, not what you think you should have felt. The value is in the accuracy of the data over time.

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Mistake tags

During Step 6 of journaling, you’ll tag any mistakes that occurred during the trade. Select all that apply — or None if the trade was executed cleanly.

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Entry mistakes

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Position & risk mistakes

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Exit mistakes

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Behavioral mistakes

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No mistakes

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How patterns emerge

Individual tags on a single trade don’t tell you much. But across 50 or 100 trades, patterns become clear:
  • “I’m 2x more likely to overtrade when I’m frustrated”
  • “My FOMO entries have a 30% lower Align Score than my calm entries”
  • “Every time I move my stop loss, the trade loses”
These patterns surface through your Analytics dashboard, where you can filter performance by emotional state and mistake type.
The goal is simple: tag honestly now so your data can coach you later.