📌 Trading Journals — Rules (read before posting)

[Dave]

This section is for sharing your trading journal, tracking progress, and documenting your development as a trader. It's one of the more personal sections on the forum, so keep that in mind when you're reading someone else's entries.

Basic conduct

• Respect the fact that people are sharing real results, real mistakes, and real money. Don't pile on someone for a bad trade or a rough week.
• Constructive feedback is welcome if someone asks for it. Unsolicited criticism of someone's journal isn't.
• No comparisons designed to make someone feel bad about their performance. Everyone's at a different stage.

Promotion & advertising

• Do not use your journal thread to promote paid services, signal products, or anything commercial without admin approval. A journal is a log, not a marketing channel.
• Referral links get removed without warning.
• DMing members off the back of their journal posts to sell them something will get you banned.

Posting standards

• Be honest. A journal full of only winning trades isn't a journal, it's a highlight reel. The losses and the thought process behind them are the whole point.
• Include your reasoning, not just the outcome. Why did you take the trade? What were you seeing? What would you do differently?
• You don't have to post every day, but if you start a journal thread, try to keep it updated. Abandoned journals with one entry aren't useful to anyone, including you.
• There's no required format, but include enough detail that someone reading it can actually follow your thinking.

Other things that'll get your post removed

• Journal threads that are clearly just a setup for promoting a paid product or service.
• Posting other people's journal entries or results without their permission.

Warnings for minor stuff, bans for anything deliberate or repeated.
Not sure if something fits here, message a mod before posting.

— ForexRoasted Team