I like to separate my journals by year. In the last year my trading has evolved so much that I thought I would get started a little early. The old name didn't really apply because I don't really feel like I use a Dalton style MP method. I think at least as I understand it AMT is a closer description. Trading stages/levels to look for price acceptance/rejection using the auction process.
In my last journal especially in the last few posts I have go through a lot of frustration and conflict trying to combine my older trading methods with my newer market beliefs. I have spend several months trying to define and the refine my beliefs about market behavior and what my trading process week in and week out and day in and day out. Is still resulted in a huge document that I wasn't even following when I would get up for prep at 03:30 Pacific time.
The solution or at least I hope was something PandaWarrior used to talk about. Having all your trading rules on 3x5 card. I think this is a good principle for me to use as I can easily confuse myself if I make things too complicated. I actually divided a 8.5x11 sheet into 4 pieces and that's how I will divide up the trading tasks. 1.) Prep plan: chart drawings, self analysis and blogs I follow and other tasks that support my trading and overall market view; 2.) Engagement plan: All the rules and conditions I look for to actually take a trade; 3.) Level plan: A list of the daily/weekly targets and other thoughts on CL; 4.) Post plan: Accounting, stats, journaling.
There are a lot of ideas I want to test and develop into python scripts that I can use to allocate capital to outside of my daily CL trading, I think using mathematica as a front end for displaying weekly stats shows some promise, start working more with intermarket correlation, making true back testing and live trading stats for expectancy calculation for things like the Kelley criterion. lol the long winded way of saying even thought I think I have a way trading the session day in and day out. There are still a lot of support activities for trading that I have been negelecting that I want to being into focus.