Practical trading journal guides

Set up Binance, select spot pairs and check futures, fees and funding coverage in your journal.

Prepare an IBKR Activity Flex Query: Execution level, required fields, currency, time zone and checks after import.

Choose Alpaca Paper or Live keys and check executions, supported instruments and missing fees in Fillnovo.

Worked examples of gross P&L, fees and funding: understand net results and why a result may remain unknown.

Calculate profit factor, win rate and average result on the same example, without confusing frequent wins with profitability.

Distinguish funding, execution fees and trading results; check signs and identify funding missing from an import.

Reconcile broker statements with your journal: period, quantities, fees, currencies, duplicates and unknown results.

A review routine to check data, separate plan execution from outcomes and choose a measurable improvement.

Compare manual entry, imports, calculations, data checks and exports to choose a journal that fits your practice.

Short definitions of fills, trades, realized P&L, funding, profit factor, drawdown and unknown results.

What Fillnovo does, what it does not cover, and how its guides and import limitations are documented.