How to review a crypto trading journal each week
By Daily Edge · Updated · Educational only, not financial advice.
Keeping a crypto trading journal only helps if you read it. A short weekly review turns a pile of notes into a few decisions for next week. This is a checklist you can run in 20–30 minutes.
Before you start
- Export or open last week’s sessions (plan, rules, trades, one lesson each day).
- Decide the week’s boundaries (e.g. Monday–Sunday UTC) and stick to them.
- Ignore single lucky or unlucky trades until you have a group of 20+ of the same setup.
Weekly review checklist
- Totals: number of trades, net P&L after fees, biggest win and loss.
- Win rate and average win / average loss: useful together, not alone.
- Expectancy per trade (in $ or in R): roughly (win% × avg win) − (loss% × avg loss).
- Drawdown: worst peak-to-trough during the week and whether you hit a personal stop-trading rule.
- Group by setup: which named setups you actually traded; drop or shrink the ones with poor expectancy over a meaningful sample.
- Rules kept vs broken: compare results on disciplined days vs rule-break days (see trading discipline).
- Exits: on winners and losers, how far price went for and against you before you got out (see MFE and MAE trade review).
- Mood / sleep notes: any pattern worth a next-week rule (e.g. no size-ups after poor sleep).
- One change only: write a single process change for next week. Not five.
What not to do
- Don’t rewrite history to make a trade look planned.
- Don’t raise size just because one week looked good.
- Don’t treat 10 trades as proof. Small samples swing wildly.
In Daily Edge
The free journal stores plans, rules, trades and lessons in your browser. Pro adds stats split by rules kept vs broken, setups and mood — useful for this weekly pass. Educational only, not financial advice.
Frequently asked questions
How long should a weekly review take?
Keep it short enough that you will repeat it every week. A review you skip helps less than a short one you always do.
What if I had no trades this week?
Review your plans and the rules you kept. Sitting out when nothing matched your setup is part of the record.
Should I change my strategy after one bad week?
One week is a small sample. Look for repeated mistakes first, and judge the strategy over many trades.