Few traders do this but it can be helpful to Just note the levels of the stop and limit orders that you set, regardless of if they were not caused, plus how close the price came to untriggered orders and how far it went past caused orders. You would also know how far it went beyond your limit order (how much more profit you may have made with a higher target). For a bad trade you’ll know how close the price came to your target profit before turning back and causing your stop. That information may be really valuable if you start to have the idea that your system would do better if stops were further out, for example. You have the facts there to support your theory or prove it wrong. Naturally, you want information about a large number of trades before starting tweaking your foreign exchange trading system . Never start messing with a system just because it had a couple of losses in succession, or had a bad month. This will make all of the difference between profits and losses in the long run without requiring you to get a new forex trading system .