Futures and forex trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one’s financial security or lifestyle. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
Hypothetical performance results have many inherent limitations, some of which are described below. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown; in fact, there are frequently sharp differences between hypothetical performance results and the actual results subsequently achieved by any particular trading program. One of the limitations of hypothetical performance results is that they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. In addition, hypothetical trading does not involve financial risk, and no hypothetical trading record can completely account for the impact of financial risk of actual trading. for example, the ability to withstand losses or to adhere to a particular trading program despite trading losses are material points that can also adversely affect actual trading results. There are numerous other factors related to the markets in general or to the implementation of any specific trading program that cannot be fully accounted for in the preparation of hypothetical performance results and all which can adversely affect trading results.
Journalit's review system gives you a place to review the individual trades you made, then step back and compare how you traded across the week. Start with the Daily Report Card. Use the weekly review to spot patterns that are hard to see when each day is viewed alone.
Start here
If you only build two review habits, make them Trade Review in your DRC and Daily Reviews by Weekday in your weekly review. One deals with the decisions you made. The other shows whether those decisions repeat on particular days.
Trade Review is a DRC widget for reviewing trades in the context of the trading day. It lists reviewed and pending trades, then opens the structured prompts for the trade you want to analyse.
Use prompts to examine execution, risk, discipline, and the context behind each trade.
The DRC keeps goals, session notes, events, and the rest of the day's review context close while you assess a trade.
Reviewed and pending states make it clear which trades have actually been analysed.
Answers are stored as markdown in the relevant trade note, while the reviewed state remains structured for filtering and navigation.
Open Layout Builder and select the Daily Report Card layout you use.
Add Trade Review from the content widgets. It is available for DRC layouts.
Open the DRC after the session, select a trade, answer the prompts, and mark the trade reviewed when the review is complete.
Edit the Trade Review widget in Layout Builder to configure separate question sets for winning, losing, breakeven, and open trades. The questions and answer placeholders are part of the DRC template, so the same review structure is available whenever that template is used.
Questions can use text answers or a list of choices. A choice can reveal one or more follow-up questions, which lets the review branch into the evidence that matters for the selected answer. Follow-up answers remain attached to the trade and reappear if their branch becomes visible again.
Daily Reviews by Weekday brings the relevant parts of each DRC into one weekly review, grouped by weekday. It is the fastest way to compare Monday with Tuesday, or see whether a problem keeps returning at the same point in the week.
Read the selected DRC sections by weekday instead of opening five separate notes and trying to remember what changed.
Use it to catch patterns such as poor Monday preparation, late-week overtrading, or consistently stronger sessions.
Each weekday entry links back to the original Daily Report Card when you need the full context.
Configure which DRC sections appear, then use cards or accordions to match the amount of detail you want visible.
A good weekday review does not need every DRC section copied into it. Start with what helps you compare decisions: Trade Review, goals, session mistakes, psychology notes, or your market plan. Add more only when you miss it during a real weekly review.
Weekly layouts can also include Demon Tracker. It aggregates recurring mistakes for the week, applies the configured stop-trading threshold, and summarises unique mistakes, total occurrences, and critical patterns.
The DRC is the working note for one trading day. It can hold preparation before the session, trade and performance context during the day, and reflection after it.
Use goals, checklists, market context, key levels, and previous-day context before you start trading.
See the day's trades, performance data, and account context without leaving the review.
Use Trade Review, session mistakes, missed trades, prompts, grading, and tomorrow's goals to close the day properly.
Keep the DRC practical
A DRC is useful when you return to it. Keep the preparation and review blocks short enough to complete on a normal trading day.
Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes use the same layout system. They are there for different questions, not because every review needs the same amount of ceremony.
Compare sessions, recurring behaviour, goals, and day-of-week patterns.
Review strategy performance and market conditions over a longer sample.
Use larger reviews for changes to your process, strategy, or risk approach that need more than a few days of evidence.
Add Tag Performance to DRC, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly layouts when custom trade tags represent behaviour, market context, or execution themes that you want to compare.
Rank tags visually and focus on the strongest or weakest groups in the selected review period.
Compare trade count, P&L, win rate, and profit factor for each tag.
Sort the breakdown by P&L, win rate, or trade count and limit the result to the groups that deserve attention.
A trade contributes its full result to each attached tag, while untagged trades stay outside the widget.
The Performance Calendar also marks reviewed DRC days and reviewed weeks, so completed review periods remain visible from the broader analytics workspace.
Layout Builder controls the sections and widgets in DRCs and longer reviews. It is where you add Trade Review, Daily Reviews by Weekday, charts, statistics, checklists, prompts, and other review blocks.
Related pages
Read Layout Builder for the widget catalogue and template editing. Read Trade Notes for the trade-level record that holds review answers and evidence.