--- title: Trading Journal Blog — Insights & Tips — ohYaaa description: Trading insights, platform updates, and educational content from ohYaaa. Learn to trade better with data-driven strategies and journaling best practices. url: https://www.ohyaatradingjournal.com/blog type: blog-index last_updated: '2026-10-14' --- # Blog Trading insights, data-driven strategies, and journaling best practices. [Trading Discipline October 13, 2026 ## Guard Windows: How to Stay Out of the Way of FOMC, CPI and NFP Most traders know they should be careful around FOMC and CPI. Few have decided in advance how careful, for how long. A guard window turns a vague instinct into a number.](/blog/guard-windows-fomc-cpi-nfp) [Trading Discipline October 13, 2026 ## Build a Pre-Market Briefing From the Traders You Already Follow The scroll before the open is useful and unfocused. Here is how to turn it into a two-minute briefing with levels, attributions, and a clear line between what people said and what you will do.](/blog/pre-market-briefing-from-traders-you-follow) [Journaling October 13, 2026 ## How to Journal a Trade With Multiple Entries and Exits Add one, add another, take half off, take the rest. A trade log built around one entry and one exit cannot describe that. Here is how to record it so the numbers still add up.](/blog/journal-scaling-in-and-out) [Journaling October 13, 2026 ## The Real Cost of Trading: Put Commissions and Fees in Your Journal A $12 winner that cost $4.50 to take is a $7.50 winner. Multiply by a hundred trades and your gross and net numbers are telling very different stories.](/blog/trading-fees-commissions-journal) [Trading Psychology October 13, 2026 ## Trade Triggers: Journal Why You Clicked, Not Just What You Traded Two trades can have the same setup tag and completely different reasons behind them. One was in your plan. The other was boredom with a chart open.](/blog/trade-triggers-why-you-took-the-trade) [Trading Discipline October 13, 2026 ## What to Do Between Setups: Habits That Keep You From Forcing Trades Trading is mostly waiting, and waiting is where discipline leaks out. Here is a practical way to give the waiting something to do.](/blog/trading-habits-while-you-wait) [Trading Discipline October 13, 2026 ## Write the Plan Before the Trade: How a Daily Trade Plan Gate Works The single most useful rule many traders add is the simplest: no trades until the plan is written. Here is what to put in it, and what the gate does.](/blog/write-the-plan-before-the-trade) [Mentorship October 13, 2026 ## Share a Trading Day With Your Mentor Without Sending Screenshots Asking for a review usually means a pile of screenshots and a long message. A shared day gives your mentor the whole context in one link, and you control it.](/blog/share-a-trading-day-with-your-mentor) [Platform October 13, 2026 ## How Coach Alpha Reviews Your Trading (and What It Will Not Do) Language models are good at explaining patterns and unreliable at finding them in raw rows. So the finding is done in code, and the model is handed facts with sample sizes attached.](/blog/coach-alpha-how-ai-trading-review-works) [Journaling October 13, 2026 ## Why ohYaaa Does Not Import Your Trades Automatically A journal that fills itself is a database, not a practice. The act of recording a trade is the first review, and it is the part that changes behavior.](/blog/why-manual-trade-logging-works) [Setup Tracking May 15, 2026 ## Setup Tracking: Find Your Most Profitable Strategy in 30 Days You probably have one setup that pays for everything, and two or three that drain the account. Without setup tagging, they all blur together. Here is how to separate them in 30 days.](/blog/setup-tracking-30-days) [Prop Trading April 29, 2026 ## Trading Journal for Prop Firm Traders: Track Your Evaluation Prop firm evaluations are won and lost on metrics, not just profits. A trading journal built for prop traders tracks daily drawdown, consistency scores, and rule violations in real time.](/blog/prop-firm-trading-journal) [Futures Trading April 22, 2026 ## Best Trading Journal for Futures: ES, NQ, and Beyond Futures journals fail most traders because they treat ES and NQ like stocks. Here is what contract-aware journaling looks like — and why tick value automation changes everything.](/blog/best-trading-journal-futures) [Trading Discipline April 17, 2026 ## How to Use a Pre-Trading Checklist to Improve Discipline Most trading mistakes happen before you place a trade. A pre-trading checklist interrupts the autopilot that causes FOMO entries, oversizing, and rule-breaking — before they cost you money.](/blog/pre-trading-checklist) [Journaling April 15, 2026 ## Free Trading Journal vs Excel: Why Spreadsheets Fail Traders Excel seems like a free, flexible trading journal — until you spend three hours debugging a formula instead of reviewing your trades. Here is what spreadsheets cannot do.](/blog/trading-journal-vs-excel) [Trading Psychology April 13, 2026 ## FOMO Trading: How Much Is It Really Costing You? FOMO entries feel like opportunities but show up in your data as consistent losers. Here's how to measure the true cost and build a data-driven case for waiting.](/blog/fomo-trading-cost) [Journaling April 10, 2026 ## What Should You Track in a Trading Journal? Most traders log their P&L and nothing else. Here are the specific fields that turn a trading log into a performance engine — and what you can safely skip.](/blog/what-to-track-in-trading-journal) [Trading Psychology April 8, 2026 ## How to Stop Revenge Trading: A Data-Driven Approach Revenge trading is the number one account killer for day traders. Here's how to use data to break the cycle before it breaks your account.](/blog/how-to-stop-revenge-trading) ## Categories Trading Psychology Setup Analysis Platform Updates Trading Discipline Futures Trading Beginner Tips Journaling Mentorship Platform ## Start your trading journal today [Create Your Journal — Free](/app) Free forever. No credit card required.