Most collectors remember their wins and forget their passes. A haul log flips that: the passes are where the learning is, because a pass at a recorded price is a decision you can grade later.
Start the trip before the first scan
Open a haul when you walk in — or from the shop's listing in the finder, which attaches the store for you. Everything you scan during the trip lands in one place with the shop's ask and the market's ask side by side. That pairing is the whole point: their price vs the room's price, frozen at the moment you were standing there.
Log the passes, not just the buys
Mark every item bought or passed. It feels like paperwork for about one trip, and then it starts paying:
- Passes grade your discipline. If the market asks you passed on have since climbed, your instinct was right and your nerve wasn't. If they sank, you trusted the read and it worked.
- Bought items track themselves. What you paid sits next to the current asking range, so your cost basis and your unrealized move are always current — no spreadsheet, no end-of-month archaeology.
- Totals stay honest. Spend counts what you paid. Signal counts what the kept items are asking now. They're never blended into one feel-good number.
Read your week back
If you ran a trip in the last seven days, the Monday Field Report opens with your own hauls: trips, bought vs passed, spend, and the current asks on what you kept — plus the Heat Index standing of every category you scanned, so you can see whether you were hunting a hot market or a cooling one. Categories still calibrating say so instead of showing a score.
Two privacy facts worth knowing: your hauls are private to your account, and they never move the public Heat Index. Your trips are your edge; publishing them would be bad for you and bad for the data.
The habit that compounds
One trip of logging is a receipt. A season of logging is a record of your own judgment — which shops price tight to the market, which categories you read well, and where your discipline slips. Log the boring trips especially. Anyone can remember the day they found the grail.
