Electronic Trading Diary...

Hey guys,

I'm looking for something that records each trade made automatically, so that I can keep track of it. Even better would be something that takes images of the trades that I enter so that I can review them at a later date...

Surely there's something like this around?

... or are we still in the days of printing out charts and writing on paper?

Cheers,

Spot.

You could always use Excel!

Excel is not that convenient for that, since the pictures can make it confusing in the long run (that would start at 4 trades, for me, since I can put many charts per trade). Plus Excel sometimes decides that your cell format is not what it thinks it should and rearranges it... painful.
I came accross something promising, Forex Control Center, alas the diary function is a mess, charts go from one trade to the other, comments of a trade erase those of others, some trades disappear... well, not reliable at all. Too bad, it looked like it had it all. So, I'm still looking to get rid of paper and scissors too!

You know, if you use power point with a screen capture like Snag-It..... all you need to do is tap the print screen button and it takes a screen shot.

You can take as many as you want. Then you go back and view them as a slide show.

Very few buttons to push.

You can set it to take a snapshot every 5 minutes while you're away.....

Not sure what you are asking for here. If you use MT4 all trades are automatically recorded electronically. I add a trade code in the comments column which helps me collate data on strategies.

When you action a trade then an option to print the slip is displayed. If you want to keep this electronically then print to XPs file or I think Microsoft One note supports this.

I would be interested in knowing what you are trying to achieve.

I like that idea, price.

Yeah it works pretty well. You can set it to take one window or the whole screen.
Snag-It will give a free 30 day trial. You can draw, write on them.

The power point slide show is sweet. Just sit there tapping the right arrow button and scroll through all of the screen shots you took that day.

I aint no Snag-It salesman, I think they want forty bucks for it.... I have heard of Bug Shooter. It's another screen shot software. I think it's free.

You're bound to find one for free with a search.

Cheers

you could use this thread as a diary or comments or as notepad whatever you want,ill show you.

eur/yen=possible bull move today waiting for conformation
usd/chf=possible short conformation required
gbp/yen=possible bull move today

all trades posted are potential trades if i take any trade I will have to explain why i took the trade with pics,has to fit my trading plan and money management.End of the week I will look back on the trades.

long,reasons for long,took small position,close of !hr candle above resistance.dont like trade to much rather have waited,1 hr charts are sketchy but,trend is up on daily looking for 132.75 target.stop 131.25

still in gbp/yen trade,moved stop to most recent low created on 1 hr.
Put a pending order on eur/usd.not in trade yet,reason for taking is a pinbar candle at resistance waiting for low to be breached.

trade never was executed,gpb/yen stoped out -14

took this trade yesterday morning at 9 am eastern time after four hour candle close,reason for taking trade.broke 4hr support then tested support giving me a conformation to enter short.would break even at a level of resistance that could possibly become support.That is exactly what happened and got stoped out at break even.

reason for trade,On daily possible crown formation And at a strong resistance level.put pending order in at a level of support became resistance on 1 hr with pinbar.

broke even on trade,waiting to hit limit

eur/usd=possible long
usd/yen=possible long
usd/cad=possible short

I longed the euro got in late and took profit,still has room to go up if it pullsback will get back in,Its friday had to lock in some profit to be positive on week,aus usd still in trade free trade waiting for target to be hit

took 4 trades this week,broke even on usd/chf and stoped out with small loss on gbp/yen,eur/usd small profit,and im still in on aus/usd free trade.All trades positive on avg of 60 pips,but did not lock in profits need to fix that next week we are going to profit more on trades.Will see what is needed to be done on weekend to lock in some profit.

aus/usd got stoped out at break even,put in a euro trade at 9:15 est long
at 1.3604 stop was moved already to 1.3582 and limit 1.3700.reason for trade its in a uptrend and bounced off of a 1 hour resistance that can become support,it did creating a hammer on the 4 hour and on daily looks like it still has not got to destination.