Alerts and the Journal Tab

Two quiet features do disproportionate work: alerts watch the market so you don't have to, and the journal remembers what no chart can.

Alerts

Create an alert on any symbol at a price level you care about — the support you're waiting to buy, the breakout you don't want to miss. The platform monitors the simulated feed and splits alerts into:

• Active — armed, waiting for the level.
• Triggered — fired; time-stamped for review.

The alert is your discipline proxy for FOMO (Course 04). Instead of watching a chart waiting for a level — the exact state in which impulse trades are born — you set the alert, close the terminal, and return only when the market has done its job. Combine with pending orders: alert as the notification, limit/stop order as the pre-committed action.

The journal tab

Covered in Course 04; here's the workflow inside the terminal:

1. Place a trade.
2. Immediately add a journal entry: setup, reason, size rationale, emotional state.
3. On close, add one post-mortem line.

The journal pairs with the HISTORY tab — history holds the numbers (entry, exit, P/L), the journal holds the why. Six months from now, the why is the dataset that tells you which of your setups deserve real capital someday.

A weekly review ritual

Same time every week, 20 minutes:

• Count trades by setup; win-rate and average R per category.
• Count rule violations (trades with no journal entry are, by definition, unplanned).
• Pick ONE leak to fix next week — not five.

This ritual, boring as it is, is the single highest-return activity on the platform. The leaderboard rewards it indirectly: steady 1%-risk execution compounds past occasional heroics.

By the numbers

An alert has two states and no ambiguity — untriggered or triggered — the platform keeps honest receipts. The journaling habit has research behind it too: Fischhoff (1975) showed people misremember past predictions as more accurate than they were, and the entry written before the outcome is the only cure for that hindsight rewrite. Twenty minutes a week is the whole review budget.