A trading journal for Indian stocks: every trade, every result

Why keep a trading journal

Memory is kind to winners and quiet about losers. A journal records every entry and exit as it happened, so you can look back at what you actually did: how long you held, what size you traded, and how each kind of trade turned out.

Kept in a spreadsheet, a journal is one more chore. Here, each trade is a row you add in seconds — or hundreds of rows at once from your broker's tradebook.

What the Stock Journal records

Each entry is a stock, a date, a side, a quantity and a price. From those, the journal works out the rest.

• Segment: delivery, intraday or F&O, filtered separately.
• Open positions with their average price and value at NSE's latest close.
• Closed trades with entry, exit and profit or loss: (exit − entry) × quantity, the other way round for a short.
• A CSV download of the whole journal (Premium), for your own records or spreadsheet.

What it leaves out

Brokerage and other charges aren't included in profit figures, so they show the trade itself. The journal shows facts about your own trades; it never suggests a trade.

Start your trading journal

1. 01Sign inFree, no card. Open the Stock Journal from your dashboard.
2. 02Add tradesAdd a trade by hand, or upload a Zerodha tradebook CSV to bring in your history at once.
3. 03ReviewSort open positions and closed trades by profit, value or how long they were held, and filter by segment.

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