You can keep a journal record for stocks you purchase.
You can use a Power Point presentation to paste screen captures of stock charts at the time you placed an order to purchase or to sell a stock and at the end of the day when the market is closed.
The record will start on the date you purchased the stock and end the day you sold the stock.
You can screen capture the following charts of the stocks you purchased:
Maximum monthly chart
Maximum daily chart
1-year daily chart.
The 1-year daily chart shows you the 52-week low and high.
If you have time, you can record the chart at the time you placed the order.
At the end of the day when the market closes, you can record the unrealized gain or profit of your investment account of the stocks purchased.
Keeping a trading journal is recording what you look at from the day you purchase a stock to the day you sell that stock.
If you do not have time to do daily journal your swing trades, you can try to do it on a weekly basis during the weekend.
You could screen record your computer while you analyze the stocks to record the charts for a certain time frame like a week or a month time frame for the stocks you purchased or sold.
Just keep in mind that video files could be heavy files. You can file them on an external drive. Recording what you see could help you save time. During that recording, you could talk to include why you made a certain decision related to each stock or interpret the chart the way you understand it at that specific time. It saves you time as you don’t need to screen capture each stock chart and save. You don’t write either. You just talk as you record the charts.
A swing trading journal allows you to capture some highs and lows on the chart as these highs could change when a new high is reached. For uptrend stocks, they reach a new high often and the mark on the chart signaling a new high is reached will move to a new high point each time a new high is reached. A screen capture or screen record could allow you to capture the chart at a specific time with some notifications like a new high.
You can try trading journal for a few months to see if you find it useful.
If you lack time to do it consistently and you do not review the journal, maybe you may not need it.
Or you can record it monthly.
Conclusion: How to keep stock trading journal?
The video explains how we keep a swing trading journal for stocks we swing trade.
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