Do you Keep a Stock Trader’s Journal?

I put a poll on the right side of the sidebar to ask if you keep any type of trader’s journal for your stock and options trades.  Any type of investing or trading journal qualifies for this poll.  Even a blog about investing counts in this survey.  One of the points of a trader’s journal is to make you think a little extra about your investments and not treat it as gambling.  The benefits include learning from your successes and failures and being able to look at the ideas you had days, weeks and months earlier to see how they are working out.

Since I’ve been keeping my journal, my returns have improved.  Time will tell if it’s a coincidence, but I was advised to write in one long before I started and I’m curious if others take their investing seriously enough to do the same.  I’ll keep this poll up for as long as it seems to be getting votes.