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Annotations ​

The Annotations page is your personal trading journal built directly into TTMT. Instead of maintaining a separate spreadsheet or notebook, you can attach notes, observations, and quality assessments to your completed trades right where the data lives.

Why Keep a Trading Journal? ​

Every experienced trader will tell you the same thing: the traders who journal improve faster than those who do not. A trading journal forces you to reflect on what happened, why it happened, and what you would do differently next time.

With TTMT handling execution automatically, your journaling focus shifts from "Did I follow my entry rules?" to more strategic questions:

  • Was this channel's signal quality good?
  • Did the market conditions suit this trade?
  • Would different settings have produced a better outcome?
  • Was this loss a normal part of the strategy, or a sign of something I should change?

Adding Notes to Trades ​

Navigate to any completed trade -- either from the Annotations page directly or from the Trade Log -- and add your notes. Each annotation can include:

  • Free-text notes -- Your observations, thoughts, and analysis in your own words
  • Signal quality assessment -- Rate the quality of the signal that originated the trade
  • Outcome reflection -- Did the trade play out as expected? What was different?

There is no rigid structure -- write as much or as little as you want. Some traders write detailed paragraphs analyzing each trade. Others use a simple one-line note: "Good signal, bad timing -- NFP day." Both approaches are valid.

Focus on Patterns, Not Individual Trades

Single trades are largely random. What matters is the pattern across many trades. Use annotations to tag recurring themes -- "slippage on news", "channel X always late on Gold", "entry zone too wide" -- and then review those tags periodically to spot actionable patterns.

Signal Quality Assessment ​

Beyond free-text notes, the annotation system lets you assess the quality of the original signal. This creates structured data that you can review over time to evaluate which channels consistently provide good signals versus those that produce noisy or unreliable calls.

Quality assessment helps you answer questions like:

  • "How often does Channel X send signals with accurate entry zones?"
  • "Are Channel Y's stop losses consistently too tight?"
  • "Which channels produce signals that play out as expected?"

Building Your Review Habit ​

The annotations page works best when you build a regular review habit. Here is a practical approach:

Daily (2 minutes) ​

  • Glance at any trades that closed today
  • Add a quick note if anything stands out

Weekly (10 minutes) ​

  • Review the week's trades as a batch
  • Annotate the notable ones: big wins, unexpected losses, unusual behavior
  • Look for any recurring themes

Monthly (30 minutes) ​

  • Read through your annotations from the past month
  • Identify the top 3 patterns or lessons
  • Cross-reference with the Performance page to see if your observations match the numbers
  • Make one or two concrete changes based on what you learned (adjust a setting, pause a channel, modify a symbol filter)

The Best Traders Are Students

Trading is a skill, and skills improve with deliberate practice. Annotations turn your live trading into a learning process. Every trade -- win or lose -- becomes a data point for improvement.

Connecting Annotations to Decisions ​

The real power of annotations emerges when they drive action. Some examples:

Observation from AnnotationsAction Taken
"Channel X's GBPUSD signals lose money 70% of the time"Added GBPUSD to Channel X's symbol exclusion filter
"My Gold trades do great on Layer 1 but deeper layers rarely fill"Switched Gold to Market Only entry strategy via config profile
"Signals during Asian session consistently underperform"Set a trading window to only execute during London and NY sessions
"This channel's SL is always too tight -- gets stopped out before TP1"Enabled default SL override with wider buffer for this channel

Each of these is a concrete improvement that came from noticing a pattern in annotated trades.