Charts galore
I’m getting a kick out of all the ways I can look at my trading journal. It’s definitely a big help in seeing where your problems and advantages are. In my previous June Review post, I attached a chart of the progress of my R sum throughout the month. The following chart is the same R chart plotted with the percent growth of my account balance (after commission). It shows that even though some of my trades (especially towards the end of the month) were very successful in terms of risk-to-reward, I didn’t make a lot of money from them:
