Trade Journal V1.0

The Trade Journal Is Live!

There's a new tool available: a full trade journal that runs in your browser, keeps your data on your own machine, and grades your progress as you go.

It started as a simple log. It ended up as something closer to a performance dashboard, because once the entries exist, there's no reason not to put them to work.

The scoreboard:

Four figures sit at the top of the page and update the moment you log a trade.

Account Balance is the one people tend to like. You type in what your account is worth right now, and from then on it carries forward with every trade you log. Deposit money or take some out, retype the current figure, and the difference is absorbed cleanly rather than being counted as a phantom winning trade.

Net P/L, Win Rate, and Weeks Profitable fill out the row. All three are net of fees, which matters more than it sounds: a one dollar winner that cost you two-sixty in commissions is recorded as a loss, because that's what it was.

Seeing the shape of it:

Below the scoreboard, a calendar heat map shows the month at a glance. Green days, red days, the day's net and win-loss count in each cell, weekly totals on the right edge, and the month's net beside the month name. A bad week announces itself before you've read a single number.

Beside it, a bar chart of daily P/L over however many days back you want to look, scaling itself to whatever the data needs.

There's also a monthly goal row: set a target, and twelve circles show how each of the last twelve months measured against it. Empty ring, partial wedge, or a solid green circle when you hit it.

Where the money actually comes from:

A panel ranks your best and worst performers by symbol, by strategy, or by the level you traded off. Not individual trades, but totals, so a ticker you've traded thirty times shows what it's genuinely done for you across all thirty.

This is usually where the surprises live. Most traders have a setup they're fond of that doesn't earn its keep, and one they barely think about that quietly does.

A rating that won't flatter you:

The journal scores you from zero to one hundred and places you on a ladder from Not Profitable through Beginner, Intermediate, Experienced, and Professional.

The score weighs profit factor, win rate, and weekly consistency. Negative net P/L pins you at the bottom regardless of how good the other numbers look. And the tiers are capped by sample size: under twenty closed trades you cannot rank above Beginner, and Professional requires fifty. Three lucky trades will not make you a professional, and the tool tells you exactly how many more trades or weeks it needs before it will say otherwise.

The part worth reading twice:

Every entry has a Tag field, and what you put there determines how much the journal can tell you later.

Tags are free text, and they hold more than one thing at a time. A tag like Long, Day, Morning records direction, trade type, and session in one go. The filter above the ledger then narrows the entire page to a tag, and the scoreboard, the chart, the calendar, the rankings, and the rating all recalculate for just those trades. You can ask what your morning scalps alone are doing, or isolate paper trades from live ones so they stop contaminating each other's statistics.

The same applies to the Strategy, Open Level, and Psychology fields. Each has a menu that learns: type something new and it joins the list for next time. That matters because consistency is what makes grouping work. "Break-retest" written three different ways used to fragment into three separate entries, each too small to rank. Pick a spelling, let the menu offer it back to you, and your results consolidate where they belong.

None of this requires discipline at the end of the month. It requires two seconds at the time of entry, which is the only moment you'll remember what actually happened anyway.

Your data stays yours:

Nothing is uploaded. There's no account and no login. The journal saves itself in your browser as you go, which is private by design and carries one responsibility: exporting is your only backup. The export button writes a single file containing every entry, your balance, your goal, and your settings, and the import button puts it all back. It's also how you move a journal between computers.

If you run more than one account, the Active Account field names your exports for you, so Funded 50k-2026-10-11.json tells you what it is without opening it.

Printing:

Two options. Print Page gives you the whole thing including your notes, for a monthly review. Print List gives you one line per trade with the column headings repeating on every page, so your printer's own page-range settings work normally.

The journal is free, needs no sign-up, and is ready now. Log a dozen trades and the picture starts filling in on its own.