Trade Journal Features

The Free Trade Journal You'll Actually Use

Trade Journal

Record trades, spot patterns, and improve your performance with a structured trading journal built for real traders.

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Improve your trading in three steps

A simple loop: record clean data, review patterns, then refine your next week’s plan.

Record every trade

1. Record every trade

Capture context fast with screenshots, tags, and emotions.

Why Keeping a Trade Journal Matters

If you're not tracking your trades, you're not improving. The best traders learn from their data.

No Plan, No Direction

Without a stock trade journal, you're trading blind. You need a place to map your entries, exits, and strategy — and track if you're sticking to it.

Consistency Builds Results

A plan only works if you follow it. Journaling helps you stay consistent and develop the discipline that leads to long-term success.

See What’s Really Working

Guesswork doesn’t scale. A journal shows whether your strategy delivers results and where it needs refining.

Improve With Insight

Patterns emerge when you log your trades. Journaling reveals strengths, weaknesses, and emotional triggers so you can trade with clarity.

Designed to Keep You on Track

Capture every trade with structured context so nothing slips past your review.

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Journal within seconds

Capture every trade with structured context so nothing slips past your review.

Auto-sync broker fills

Automatic Imports

Realtime

Log every trade automatically — without manual input. Connect your account and TraderWaves imports your trades into your journal with key details like symbol, entry/exit, size, fees, and P&L so your journal stays accurate and up to date.

Rich trade notes with tags

Unlimited Notes & Images

Context

Capture the full story behind every trade — so your reviews actually improve performance. Add rich-text notes and unlimited screenshots to each entry. Record your plan, reasoning, execution, and chart setup in one place so you can identify patterns faster and stop repeating mistakes.

Structured journal templates

Auto-Journal Notes

Speed

Stay consistent without effort. Auto Journal Notes capture the story of your trade so your reviews focus on what actually matters.

Structured journal templates

Journal Templates

Speed

Journal faster and never miss the details that matter. Create journal templates for different strategies or trade types. Each entry starts with your preferred prompts (setup rules, entry trigger, risk, exit reason, lesson) so your journal stays consistent even on busy days.

Analyse with ease

See patterns quickly with curated metrics and views aligned to how you trade.

Session snapshot analytics

MAE & MFE Session Charts

Focus

Understand which market sessions drive your best results and where performance breaks down. MAE and MFE session charts reveal how trades behave across sessions, helping you refine timing, exits, and risk management using real journal data.

Tags and emotions on trades

Strategy Tag Filters

Insight

Find out what really drives your results — strategy, mistakes, or mindset. Tag trades by strategy, mistake type, market condition, or anything custom. Add emotions and a rating to track your psychology. Then filter results to see which strategies keep you profitable and what consistently hurts your performance.

Trading performance dashboards

Trade Metrics

Stay on track with equity, win-rate, and RR trends that highlight what’s working.

Sharpen Your Strategy

Turn insights into action with nudges, guardrails, and coach-style guidance.

Playbook alignment checklist

Strategy Library

Discipline

Refine your strategies and keep track of all your trading strategies to evaluate their performance.

Next-step coaching prompts

Smart Insights

Coaching

Spot patterns in your trades with AI-powered insights to improve faster.

Guided refinement with targets

Personal AI Coach

Your Personal AI Coach is always available inside TraderWaves, helping you turn data into better trading decisions. Accessible through a lightweight chat bubble across your dashboard and journal, it helps you review trades, identify patterns, and understand what’s holding back your performance. The coach highlights recurring mistakes, missed opportunities, and areas for improvement based on your actual trading behavior. Use it to refine strategies, improve risk management, and build consistency over time — all without leaving your workflow.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Clear answers to common questions about trading journals.

Refining Your Strategy? Master your Metrics

Journaling logs your strategies. Analytics reveal the patterns.

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