The framework is what you do. The journal is how you know whether you did it.
The journal is the framework’s instrument. The framework lives in the prompts, in the indicators, in the rules that fire at entry and at exit. The journal is where every session those rules touched gets written down, in a fixed shape, so the framework can be evaluated as a thing that was actually run rather than a thing that was meant to be run.
The journal that ships here is the canonical sample — eight paper trades across six structures with one Macro Break-Glass exit and one Fade Variant entry, dropped into the architecture the EOD post-mortem prompt expects to receive. Aggregate win rate lands at 75 percent across the eight sessions, clearing the framework’s 70 percent Phase 1 paper threshold by a small margin. The numbers are illustrative, not personal. The structure is the point.
The journal ships as a single workbook. It opens natively in Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers, and imports cleanly into Google Sheets via File > Import. The 172 formulas across all four sheets have been verified equivalent between Excel and Google Sheets after a round-trip through Sheets — the SUMPRODUCT aggregations on the totals sheets, the IF/AND/OR discipline-violation flags on the trades sheet, the SUMIFS rolling metrics — so the framework’s KPIs read the same regardless of which platform runs the file.
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The canonical sample journal. Four sheets — Daily Pre-Trade Check, Trades, Totals, Paper Totals — with 172 formulas and eight demonstration paper trades populated. Open it, replace the sample rows with your own sessions, and the totals and KPIs update against your data.
Download (.xlsx)Opens natively in Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers. For Google Sheets, open the downloaded file via File > Import. Compatible with Microsoft 365 Copilot when used inside Excel and with Gemini when used inside Google Sheets. The 172 formulas have been verified equivalent across Excel and Google Sheets.
The journal records every session the framework touched. The fields are not a checklist of nice-to-have notes — they are the inputs the EOD post-mortem prompt needs to evaluate the session against the rules that should have governed it.
The four-sheet structure separates daily pre-trade discipline (one row per session day) from per-trade execution (one row per position taken) from rolling aggregate totals (all live trades) from paper-mode aggregate totals (paper trades only, with the 70 percent gate displayed). Win rate, followed-plan rate, three-signal alignment rate, exit-reason breakdown, EM-tier performance split, and held-to-expiration rate are all computed from the data without manual aggregation.
The journal is not where the trade ends. It is where the next session begins.
Nineteen items across five categories. The minimum infrastructure required to run the framework at all.
The framework as a copy-paste workflow. The EOD post-mortem prompt is the one that reads this journal.
Description, table of contents, and the chapter where the journal earns its place in the framework.