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title: "Free Trade Journal Template for Traders"
description: "Download a practical trade journal template with the columns professional traders use. Works in Excel, Notion, or trade journaling software like TradeLogger."
canonical: https://www.tradelogger.dev/guides/trading-journal-template
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# Free Trade Journal Template for Traders

A trade journal template fixes the fields you log on every trade—date, symbol, direction, entry/exit, R-multiple, setup tag, emotion notes, screenshot, and a one-line lesson. Without consistent columns you cannot compare trades fairly after fifty entries.

## Essential columns

- Date and session
- Symbol / instrument
- Direction (long / short)
- Entry and exit price
- Position size and risk (R)
- Setup / strategy tag
- Emotion before, during, after
- Screenshot or chart link
- Lesson learned

## Daily and weekly review

Log during the session; review after the close. Weekly, group by setup tag and ask which rules you actually followed. The best template is the one you still fill in after a losing day.

Start with this guide in the app: https://www.tradelogger.dev/guides/trading-journal-template
Try TradeLogger: https://www.tradelogger.dev/signup