Emotion, notes, and mental game

The Emotion Slider runs across a labelled axis: Bored, Calm, Neutral, Composed, Alerted, Tense, Anxious, Furious, Delirious.

It is one movement and it takes a second. The value is not the point; the noticing is. A trader who moves the slider to Tense has already done something a trader who has not thought about it has not.

Both ends of the axis are dangerous. Bored is where trades get invented. Delirious is where size gets doubled. The middle is where your plan works.

Notes capture what you are thinking. Adding a note (Add Note) offers an optional Topic, the Content, and a Todo switch that turns the note into a follow-up item. Save Note stores it. The notes thread lists what you wrote earlier, and the content box accepts Command or Control plus Enter to submit.

Tag notes to the symbol you are working on when you can. Notes carry their timestamp into the replay timeline, so a note written before an entry appears before that entry when you review it. That is what makes a note useful later: you can see what you believed before you knew the answer.

The Mental game (A / B / C) panel is for rating the quality of your own play and separating mental factors from tactical ones.

The A, B, and C tiers are a self-rating of execution quality: your best self, your ordinary self, and the version of you that should not be trading. The panel does not define them for you, because the useful definition is yours.

Fields:

Field	What to write
Current tier	A, B, or C
Mental / emotional descriptor	Inner dialogue, focus quality, patience, confidence texture
Tactical / execution descriptor	Plan adherence, checklist use, rule violations, technical mistakes
Trigger or context	What happened right before the quality shifted

There is also an optional hand history, borrowed from how poker players review decisions, with five steps: the problem in facts, why it made sense at the time, the flaw in that logic rather than in the feeling, the correction, and why the correction is grounded.

Step two is the one that does the work. Most trading mistakes were reasonable given what you believed, and finding the belief is more useful than condemning the action.

Save log stores the row, and the panel keeps a window of recent logs. Ask coach sends your question along with your strategy rules, vows, and recent logs, when AI is included in your plan. It notes that saving a log after coaching stores the reply on the row.