When to Update Your Trading Journal
Log every trade within minutes of closing the position. Not "later." Not "tonight." Minutes.
Here's why: your brain starts rewriting the story the second the trade closes. By end of day, that revenge scalp becomes "a valid setup that just didn't pan out." By tomorrow morning, you don't even remember the FOMO that pulled you in. Wait too long and you'll rationalize every bad decision before you ever see it on paper.
Then layer a weekly review on top of the live entries. Individual trades tell stories. Aggregated data shows you where your edge actually lives — and where it's leaking.