Trading journal
A printable worksheet for context, setup, planned risk, result and lessons learned.
Open the journal ↗ TCH / LEARNING RESOURCES
PRACTICAL TOOLS. BETTER QUESTIONS.
Learn the skill.
Build the habit.
Short guides and tools designed to support your learning and reviews—not signal services or promises of trading results.
THE CONSISTENCY HUB / KNOWLEDGE BASE
STUDY THE EVIDENCE. DOCUMENT THE PROCESS.
STUDY THE EVIDENCE. DOCUMENT THE PROCESS.01 — THE RESOURCE LIBRARY
Everything starts with a process.
Download, print or use these resources in your browser. The calculator and glossary work entirely on your device in this static site; they do not send your entries to TCH.
Economic calendar guide
Read forecasts, check release times and build a plan for periods of uncertainty.
Read the calendar guide ↗Risk-sizing calculator
Explore how risk amount, stop distance and pip value relate mathematically.
Open the calculator ↗Trading glossary
Plain-English explanations of the terms used throughout the programme.
Search definitions ↗Beginner lesson
Understand what a currency pair represents, with a simple price-quote example.
Read the lesson ↗Downloadable checklists
Use a pre-trade evidence check and a separate weekly learning review.
Get the checklists ↗News playbook
A structured before / during / after approach to major economic releases.
Open the playbook ↗02 — RISK MATHEMATICS
Understand the numbers.
An educational sizing illustration—not a recommendation for a risk percentage, instrument or position. Provide the value per pip for one lot in your account currency from your broker's specification.
EXAMPLE OUTPUT—Account-currency units at risk, before costs
Unrounded theoretical lots—
The example excludes commission, spread changes, slippage, gaps, conversion changes and broker size constraints. Actual losses can exceed the planned amount, particularly with leverage.
03 — THE TCH GLOSSARY
Learn the language.
Search common concepts used in the TCH Trader Development Programme.
- Base currency
- The first currency in a pair. In EUR/USD, EUR is the base currency.
- Quote currency
- The second currency in a pair. A EUR/USD quote says how many US dollars one euro costs.
- Pip
- A standard unit of price movement in a currency pair; for most EUR/USD quotes, one pip is 0.0001.
- Pipette
- One tenth of a pip in pairs commonly quoted to five decimal places.
- Spread
- The difference between the ask price and the bid price.
- Lot
- A standardised way to describe trade size. Contract units depend on the product and broker.
- Leverage
- Exposure to a larger position using a smaller margin deposit; it can magnify losses as well as gains.
- Margin
- Funds held to support an open leveraged position. Margin is not the maximum amount you could lose.
- Stop-loss
- An instruction intended to close a position near a chosen level; execution may differ during fast markets or gaps.
- Risk-to-reward
- Planned potential downside compared with the planned reward, before trading costs.
- Market structure
- The pattern of significant swing highs and lows used to describe a trend or range.
- Liquidity
- How readily an asset may trade; chart analysis may also discuss areas around clustered orders and prior highs or lows.
- Confirmation
- A predefined observation, such as a completed candle, that must occur before a setup qualifies.
- Expectancy
- An estimate of average result over a sample, accounting for the frequency and size of gains and losses and relevant costs.
- Drawdown
- A decline from an account or strategy's previous high to a later low.
- Slippage
- The difference between the expected execution price and the price actually received.
- Trading journal
- A record of context, planned actions, actual execution, outcome and rule adherence used for reflection.
04 — DOWNLOAD AND REVISITUseful questions.
Useful questions.
Before and after.
Two plain-text templates you can download and adapt. They are learning aids, not trading signals.
Pause before placing an order.
Context, setup rules, economic calendar, invalidation, planned risk and an explicit no-trade decision.
Download checklist ↓Review the decision, not just the result.
Journal completeness, rule adherence, common errors, practice goals and lessons to carry forward.
Download review ↓LEARNING WORKS BEST WITH STRUCTURE
Take the next practical step.
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