The Trade Journal

The Trade Journal is the central nervous system of StellarTrail. Without quality data, Analytics are impossible, and the AI Coach cannot provide personalized guidance.

Consistent, honest journaling is the single largest differentiator between amateur and professional market participants.

Logging a Trade

To log a new market action:

1. Navigate to the Journal tab.
2. Click the Log New Trade button to open the entry modal.

Required Fields

• Asset Ticker: (e.g., AAPL, SPY, BTC/USD).
• Direction: Long or Short.
• Status: Open or Closed.
• Entry & Exit Data: Price and timestamps.

The Rationale (Crucial)

The Rationale field is a qualitative text entry where you explain why you took the trade. What did you see on the chart? Were you feeling FOMO? Did you follow your plan?

This is the most important field in the entire application. The AI Coach reads your rationale using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to identify behavioral patterns like revenge trading, hesitation, or systemic sizing errors.

Tags and Categorization

Use Tags to easily categorize your trades based on setups (e.g., Breakout, Mean Reversion, News Event). This allows you to filter the journal later and isolate which specific strategies are actually generating alpha.

Reviewing Past Performance

The Journal interface provides a tabular view of all your actions. You can sort by date, profitability, or asset.

When you expand a trade row, you will see a Review button. Clicking this takes you to a dedicated review page where the AI Coach provides a post-mortem analysis of that specific trade, comparing your entry against market volatility and helping you extract a lesson.