2.3. A Note in the Journal
The tradebook records what you did. It has no place for why. The Journal is where the why goes: a note against each trade, written in your own words.
Open Reflect → Journal. On the left is the queue: one entry, called an event, for every trade Tradestory found in your tradebooks. Our example has 650 of them. Notes you have not yet written sit at the top, under Unwritten. Figure 2-4 shows the queue filtered to KTKBANK, with its five buys.
Journal
Filter: symbol KTKBANK
Unwritten (5)
- KTKBANKzerodhaADD2026-08-28✎
- KTKBANKzerodhaADD2026-08-07✎
- KTKBANKzerodhaADD2026-07-31✎
- KTKBANKzerodhaADD2026-04-10✎
- KTKBANKzerodhaBUY2026-03-06✎
Each event carries a type. The first buy of a position is a BUY, and every later buy into the same position is an ADD. So KTKBANK shows one BUY, on 6 March 2026, and four ADDs.
Clicking an event opens the study desk. On one side is the trade itself, on its price chart, with the position's trade history. On the other is a page for your note, which starts with the prompt Write what was on your mind. What did you see? Why this trade? Use #tags freely. Your note saves as you type.
A word that starts with # becomes a hashtag. Hashtags let you gather related notes later: every note tagged with the same word, across all your positions. The same notes also appear against each tranche on the Dashboard, in the Journal column we passed in the last section.
Our example investor has written no notes yet, so every event is still unwritten. Over time, a series of such notes becomes a record of how you go about building your positions. Chapter 7 covers the Journal in full.
Now let's step back from single positions and look at the whole portfolio.