Revenge trading is visible in the timestamps
Define it operationally and it becomes a number you can count instead of a feeling you argue about.
Almost nobody writes "I was furious" in a trade note. Almost everybody has a cluster of fills that arrive within two minutes of a painful exit, in the same contract, at a larger size.
The clock is more honest than the diary.
Write a definition you can test
For example: a new entry in the same symbol within ten minutes of a losing exit, at size equal to or greater than the previous trade. Your thresholds are yours. Once written, the journal can count them.
Same contract, sizes 1x, 2x, 3x. Illustrative journal data, not a live book and not a performance claim.
Report the subset, skip the diagnosis
A banner announcing that you are a revenge trader is bad psychology and worse product design. A table showing the count and the net P&L of that subset lets you draw your own conclusion.
Connect it to the rule you wrote
If the morning card said one attempt per idea and the book shows three, that is a rule break with a timestamp attached — much more useful than a vague resolution to stay calm.
Key takeaways
- Define revenge with time and size thresholds you choose.
- Report the subset’s P&L instead of labelling the person.
- Link the flag to the morning rule where one exists.
Not advice, not a call. NiyataBook is a personal trading journal, not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst. Everything above looks backwards at trades that already closed. What happened in a book does not promise what happens next, and F&O can take a year’s savings in a week.