Trades come in from your accounts without you. You add only what the broker can't know: why you entered, the setup, your state and the takeaway.
Where the trades come from
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no record, no review
How it works here
MT5, cTrader, TradeLocker and Interactive Brokers sync with their own access; NinjaTrader, ATAS, Quantower and MotiveWave send trades through a plugin; everything else comes by file. Price, size, commission, swap and stop come from the broker's history.
Why you entered, which setup and tier, what state you were in, what went wrong. A couple of lines after the trade, and that is the only work left to you.
The day plan, limits and your checklist are written once. In the evening the day compares itself with what actually happened and closes with a result.
You connect once. From then on the history comes from the broker, with the price and commission it recorded.
The trade card holds everything known about it: partial fills, costs, MAE and MFE, screenshots, setup, tier, mistakes, your state at entry and the takeaway.
A scalper sees the session as one record: a timeline of trades and a tilt meter. A swing trader sees open positions and a 'why I'm holding' note for each day. The morning starts from the week's theses, and the evening ends with a result and a Close the day button.
You add checklist items once and tick them every day. The plan sets instruments, sessions, max trades, a daily stop and a minimum R:R, and in the evening the day is graded against it.
A month on one screen: where the money is, where a streak sits, which day broke the rhythm. A cell opens the whole day, with that day's trades and metrics.
Where it differs
Many journals import automatically, and some cover more brokers. The difference is elsewhere: the daily log adapts to how you trade, the day's rules are yours, not ours, and all of it lives in your account's own database.
Check it yourself
Connect an account and open the journal the next day. The calendar is already filled, and you haven't typed a single line.
The order
Access, a plugin or a file, depending on what your platform offers. The connections page shows how each one works and what it lacks.
Scalper, intraday or swing; the day plan, limits and checklist. You write it once.
A couple of lines after the trade: why you entered and what went wrong. Everything else is already recorded and computed.
What it does not do
Questions
On our server, in your account's own database. You can export everything from the app at any moment. A local version with the database on your disk is planned.
Upload an export file. Common formats have 18 presets; for the rest you map the columns once by hand, and it works as a preset after that.
Not for MetaTrader on the investor password: it only reads. That's the recommended way and the first step in the guide. Only the copier places trades, and only after you switch live mode on.
The account moves to Free and stays. Export isn't locked behind payment; the whole journal comes out as one file.
No. The engine computes the metrics; the model explains what's already computed. A number made up by a language model can't be checked, so it was built this way from the start.
In a bad week all you owe the journal is one line about why you entered. The rest is already written.