[wsam29]

It more of seeing how your train of thought during real time trading when the future is unknown, because anyone can back test and see past results but will not have the confidence to actually trade the "system".

This way you can even monitor your thought and emotions and see if any changes need to be done to your trading method or strategy.

I know it also helps me keep each bar of information lined up to tell me exactly what is going on.

You'd be surprised when you get all your criterias lined up how much easier it is to pull the trigger.

As long as you know what those arrows you plot represent to you, you will have a visual journal as to what you were thinking and planning on doing based on those thoughts and observations.

I was very lazy and could not express my throughts and observations from my past trading experiance.