How many tags should I use?

Few enough to apply consistently to every trade. A setup tag and one quality or state tag already allow the most useful comparisons. Add a family only when you have a question that it would answer.

When do per-tag statistics become meaningful?

When each group holds enough trades to separate its average from noise, which for typical intraday dispersion means dozens of trades per group at least. Until then, use tags to find patterns worth watching, not to reallocate size.

Trade tagging (setup, emotion and rating tags)

Trade tagging is attaching consistent labels to each trade in a journal, such as the setup, the timeframe, the emotional state and a quality grade, so that results can later be broken down by those labels. The value of the tags depends entirely on applying them the same way to every trade.

Senzoukria · Glossary · Updated September 2026

Useful tag families

Setup: which playbook entry the trade belongs to. The basis for per-setup statistics.
Context: session phase, market condition, proximity to a release.
State: the emotional state at entry, for example calm, fearful or on tilt.
Execution quality: a grade for whether the plan was followed, independent of the result.
Mistakes: a short list of recurring errors, such as late entry, stop moved or size too large.

Rules for tags that stay useful

A fixed vocabulary beats free text: 'pullback' and 'pull back' become two setups in a breakdown. Tags should be applied at the time of the trade or at the same daily review, not reconstructed weeks later from memory. Every trade gets a tag, including the ones that do not fit any setup, which deserve their own label such as 'none' so that their results are visible rather than silently mixed in.

Tags produce small samples quickly. Three tag families with five values each make 125 combinations; most will hold a handful of trades. Read breakdowns one family at a time and treat any group with few trades as a description, not a conclusion.

In Senzoukria

The journal's trade form offers a Setup (breakout, pullback, reversal, fade, trend, range, news, open), a Timeframe (1m to 1d), an Emotion (calm, confident, fomo, revenge, fearful, tilted, patient) and a Rating from one to five stars, with free-text Notes. The setup is also stored as a lowercase tag. The Dashboard tab reports Win Rate by Setup with the trade count and net P&L of each tagged setup and says 'No tagged trades yet' when nothing carries a tag; the Playbook tab holds the setups' criteria. The emotion and rating fields are stored and shown in the trade's detail panel and included in the CSV export, where they can be grouped; the dashboard does not break results down by emotion.

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Frequently asked questions

How many tags should I use?: Few enough to apply consistently to every trade. A setup tag and one quality or state tag already allow the most useful comparisons. Add a family only when you have a question that it would answer.
When do per-tag statistics become meaningful?: When each group holds enough trades to separate its average from noise, which for typical intraday dispersion means dozens of trades per group at least. Until then, use tags to find patterns worth watching, not to reallocate size.

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