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I screenshot stocks/ETFs when I see them hyped on social media or news etc. along with my thinking at the time. Thinking as in “ oh boy the stock is expensive, let me wait a few days” or “darn! I don’t have the money to buy this now, but let me save for later” etc. weeks later I can’t reconstruct what I was thinking it if I should regret buying - just a pile of screenshots and bad memory.

Thinking about building something that logs ticker + price + reasoning over time as a simple timeline , so you can actually see the pattern.

Is this a problem for anyone else? Or just how I use watchlists provided by these trading platforms? Would you use something like this, or is logging your thoughts each time too much friction?

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