Emotion Tracking
The practice of logging your emotional state alongside each trade to identify how feelings like fear, greed, and frustration impact your trading outcomes.
What is Emotion Tracking?
Emotion tracking means recording how you feel before and during each trade — not after, when hindsight colors your memory. The goal is to build a dataset that connects your emotional states to your trading outcomes, revealing patterns you can't see in real-time.
Common Trading Emotions to Track
- Confident: Clear-headed, plan is clear, executing calmly
- Anxious: Uncertain about the trade, worried about loss
- Greedy: Wanting more, increasing size, taking extra trades
- FOMO: Rushing to enter because the market is moving
- Frustrated: Angry about recent losses, feeling impatient
- Bored: No setups available, trading for entertainment
- Revenge: Trying to win back a loss immediately
What the Data Reveals
After 30-50 tagged trades, patterns emerge that are genuinely surprising. A trader might discover that trades tagged "bored" have a 22% win rate versus 61% overall. Or that "confident" trades have the highest win rate but also the largest average loss (because confidence leads to larger position sizes). These insights are impossible to access without systematic tracking.
How PropLogAI helps
AI-powered trading journal
PropLogAI has built-in emotion tagging with violet badges. Tag each trade with your emotional state and the AI coach correlates emotions with performance — showing you which emotions cost you money.
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