It needs to be quick and easy to manage but cover all the key points during your session, while also being easy to review at a later date. Obviously there are lots of video and audio, screen grab style software/applications out there you could use but, you need to record the whole 90mins of a match and reviewing it all afterwards is simply too time consuming. Couple this with the fact that I'm a bit of a technophobe and I needed a much simpler and more efficient way of recording my trading sessions.
Which is why I decided to write all the key pieces of information by hand, in my trading diary but I needed a format which set out the match in an easy to use structure (see screen shot below). This trading sheet is always evolving and I have something similar for my pre match stats research which focuses on the strategies I use but I'll write another post about that later.
As you can see the top section of the sheet covers the Match Odds and Over/Under prices from, my tissue prices to 1st price I record (usually Thursday before weekend fixtures), to KO and then at 15min intervals throughout the match in question. Although, I also use this section to record the prices when goals are scored and if any red cards are shown. The Over/Under price is the 2.5 goals price to start with and then increasing goal markets as the goals go in.
The next section is the PMT section where I record my Pre Match Trade results, simply who/what I backed/layed and the close price, along with the P/L of the trade. I'll also include a short note on my reasons for opening and closing the trade.
The next section is the main inplay which breaks the game down into 15min chunks which make it easier to use and digest at a later date. As you can see above in the fictitious example I opened a Time Decay (TD) trade at 1.98 and closed it at 1.72. Again I would add a short note on why I did the trade, in the notes section. This would carry on throughout the match with every trade I tried.
Finally, the review section is where I add some more detailed notes after the match on how I felt I traded the game, good points, bad points, warts and all. I then come back to this section the following day and do another review of how I traded, just to make sure I've been as objective as possible with my performance. Directly after a game finishes its easier to paper over the cracks than admit I traded poorly so, coming back a day later helps give me a more reasonable perspective on how the session went.
Just a short post today but please let me know if you have any questions or thoughts on my trading sheet, maybe you do something completely different to this and if so, I'd like to hear about it as its always useful to see what other options there are. If you don't record & review your sessions, then I strongly suggest you do and feel free to start by copying my sheet if you want and adapt it to suit your own needs.
Cheers and good luck.
@DarkDyson
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