So it would seem the best way to track your progress trading would be your bottom line. Well this may be so, after all, you don't trade to be right, or to have an interesting topic of conversation..... you trade to make money! Well, if your bottom line is the purest way to track performance, what comes a close second? I would suggest that maybe it would be your methods of recording your trades, ideas and observations you make while trading. To that end, I've started another journal this go round....