What is TradeJournal?
TradeJournal is a place to record, understand, and improve your trading. Think of it as a smart diary for your trades: every time you buy or sell a stock, option, or other investment, you log it here — and TradeJournal turns those entries into a clear picture of how you're doing and why.
Whether you trade once a week or many times a day, the goal is the same: stop guessing, and start seeing patterns. Did your best months come from one particular strategy? Are you losing money on trades you place when you're stressed or in a hurry? A trading journal answers questions like these — TradeJournal just makes keeping one effortless.
Why keep a trading journal?
Most traders vividly remember their big wins and quietly forget everything else. A journal keeps an honest record, so you can:
- See your real results — your total profit or loss (your "P&L"), how often your trades work out, and how your account balance changes over time.
- Learn what works — which setups, strategies, and conditions actually make you money.
- Catch bad habits — overtrading, breaking your own rules, or letting emotion drive decisions.
- Stay disciplined — by writing down a plan and measuring your trades against it.
What you can do in TradeJournal
- Log your trades — by hand in a few clicks, or by importing a file straight from your broker (such as Charles Schwab or Tastytrade). It handles everything from simple stock trades to more advanced options strategies (spreads, iron condors, and the like), including the fiddly bits like rolling a position, getting assigned, or letting an option expire.
- Keep accounts organized — track several brokerage accounts separately, and pick a "default" account so logging a new trade is quick.
- Journal each trade — attach notes, screenshots, tags, a letter grade, and even how you were feeling, so the story behind a trade isn't lost the moment it closes.
- Follow a trading plan — define your own rules (for example, "always set a stop-loss" or "risk no more than 1% per trade"), and TradeJournal scores how closely you actually stuck to them.
- Review your performance — dashboards and reports show your profit and loss, win rate, and trends so you can do more of what's working and less of what isn't.
How it works, in a nutshell
- Add your accounts — tell TradeJournal which brokerage accounts you trade in.
- Record your trades — enter them by hand or import them.
- Reflect — jot down notes and tag each trade while it's still fresh.
- Review — come back to the dashboard and reports to see the big picture and plan your next move.
That's the whole loop: log → reflect → review → improve.
Who it's for
TradeJournal is built for self-directed traders — from people placing their very first trades to active options traders running multi-leg strategies. You don't need to be a spreadsheet wizard or a data analyst. If you can fill in a short form, you can keep a professional-grade trading journal.
New here? Head to Getting Started to add your first account and log your first trade — it takes just a couple of minutes.
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