New analytics tool

Take a deeper dive into your journal data

Journal Analytics: Finding the Pattern

A second tool is up in the trading section, and it exists for one reason. The trade journal tells you how much you made. This tells you where it came from.

Export your journal, drop the file into Journal Analytics, and it pulls your P/L apart every way the data allows.

Four questions it answers immediately

Which strategies make money and which only feel like they do. Which levels are worth trading off. Which symbols are carrying you and which are quietly bleeding. And which states of mind show up in your winners versus your losers.

Each gets a full-width panel: your ten most profitable on top in green, your ten costliest below in red, ranked outward from the left. These are totals rather than individual trades, so a setup you've run forty times shows what it's genuinely worth across all forty.

Three numbers under every bar

This is the part that makes the charts honest.

Under each bar sits the trade count, the win rate, and the average per trade. Bar height alone can't tell you whether a total came from steady work or one lucky print. A strategy showing two thousand dollars across thirty trades looks healthy right up until the caption reads three percent wins, at which point you know it was a single winner carrying twenty-nine losses.

That distinction is usually invisible in a P/L total, and it's the difference between an edge and a story you've been telling yourself.

Beyond the categories

Long, Short, or Both. Direction matters more than most traders check. Both is there for two-sided scalping where you're in and out of each side.

Day of week. Read straight from your dates, so it needs nothing from you. Some traders are quietly terrible on one particular day and have never noticed.

Session period. Premarket, the open, morning, afternoon, the close, aftermarket. Many people discover their edge lives in a ninety-minute window and the rest of the day is giving it back.

Recurring comments. This one tends to sting. The tool reads your Mistakes and Done Correctly notes, splits them into phrases, and surfaces anything that appears in more than ten percent of your winners or your losers. If "chased entry" shows up in a third of your losing trades, you'll see it stated as a number rather than as a feeling.

Filters

A Day or Swing toggle, and a look-back of thirty days, ninety days, one year, or everything. Both drive the entire page at once, so every chart, percentage, and comment tally narrows together.

What it needs from you

Here's the one thing worth understanding:

Three of these breakdowns —  long versus short, day versus swing, and session period — don't exist as fields in the journal. There's nowhere to enter them. They're read out of your tag field, which means they're only as good as your tagging.

A trade tagged Long, Day, Morning feeds all three. A trade with a blank tag still counts toward your totals and still appears under strategy and symbol, but it's invisible to those three panels and vanishes entirely the moment you filter by trade type. Tag carelessly and the tool will show you an analysis of half your trading while looking perfectly healthy.

Three things in every tag:  direction, type, session. Two seconds at entry.

You don't have to take it on faith, either. The Day and Swing buttons carry live counts, and each tag-driven panel states its own coverage underneath. If those numbers don't add up to your total, the gap is untagged trades, and the tool is telling you so.

The same logic applies to your notes. Short repeatable phrases build a pattern the tool can count. A unique paragraph every time can't be counted, however honest it is.

Nothing is stored

Import the same .json file that your journal produced.

It reads your file and nothing else. It doesn't save anything, doesn't remember anything between visits, and never touches your journal. Import, read, close the tab.

Journal Analytics is live now alongside the trade journal. It won't tell you what to trade. It will tell you, without flattery, what's been working.