Your account has a PnL number – but not a reason.

After six months of trading, you know whether you're up or down. What you don't know is which setup is actually driving your results, which one you keep trading out of habit, and under what market conditions each one performs best. So you keep making adjustments without ever knowing what caused the change – because you never had a baseline to compare against.

You can't improve what you never measured.

I had the same problem – so I built a way to solve it.

I developed it for the same reason I developed all my other tools: I needed it myself. I wanted to see, setup by setup, what actually worked and under which market conditions – not just whether the account was up or down.

That's exactly what this journal helps me do, every single trading day.

How it works

Define your setups once in the playbook – entry rules, exit rules, and whatever else your system requires.
Every trade is assigned to a setup. Mark which rules and market conditions applied to that trade, and the journal calculates the most important metrics for each setup – not just for your account as a whole.
Trades arrive automatically or by import. If you use Account Guard for NinjaTrader 8, they sync automatically. For everything else, simply import your trades from your broker.

All setups at a glance

The playbook view shows every setup in card form: status, trades, win rate, profit factor, entry/exit quality, and more. Instantly see what makes money and what needs work.

Trading Strategy Playbook Interface — Playbook cards with status, metrics, and direct access to details & editing.

Trades dashboard – PnL curve & metrics in detail

The trades dashboard highlights your PnL curve, all essential metrics (win rate, profit factor, expectancy, max drawdown, and more) plus weekday distribution. Filter by period, account, instrument, or playbook.

Trade dashboard with PnL curve and performance metrics — Dashboard with PnL progression, performance metrics, and day-by-day analysis.

Calendar view – spot green and red days instantly

The calendar colors each day by result so you quickly know when performance is strong or weak and how many trades ran. Beneath it sits the full trade list in a clean table.

Calendar view with daily PnL and trade list — Monthly calendar with daily PnL and every trade from the selected period below.

Playbook setup rule check – are you following your rules?

Assign a setup to each trade in the playbook dialog and tick off entry and exit rules. You immediately see whether you truly trade your system—or just think you do.

Playbook rule check with entry and exit criteria — Rule dialog with entry/exit criteria and automatic completion rate per trade.

Trade image & note – context right on the trade

Save a screenshot and attach a note to any trade. Whether it's an entry screen, exit review, or chart annotations—everything stays linked to the trade for future review.

Dialog for trade image and note with uploaded chart — Trade image dialog with chart screenshot and note field for your review.

AI trade report – executive summary for your trades

The AI report delivers a clear overview: timeframe, executive summary, strengths, weaknesses, and playbook insights. It shows exactly what to focus on in your next trading block.

AI Trading Performance Report — AI report highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and actionable playbook insights from your data.

Everything a trading journal should do

Setup playbookDefine your own setups with entry and exit rules. Every trade is assigned to one, so you see win rate and profit factor per setup instead of one number for everything.
Rule check on every tradeTick off which of your own rules you actually followed. The completion rate per trade tells you whether you trade your system or improvise.
Automatic import with Account GuardRunning Account Guard in NinjaTrader 8 syncs your trades into the journal by itself. For other brokers there is a manual import.
Performance analyticsPnL curve, expectancy, max drawdown, weekday distribution and calendar view – filterable by period, account, instrument or playbook.
Screenshots & notesAttach a chart image and your own notes to any trade, so the context is still there weeks later.
AI trade reportAn executive summary of a chosen period – strengths, weaknesses and playbook insights drawn from your own data.

Try everything free for 14 days

Not just the journal: all my other tools are included, Account Guard among them – which is also what makes the automatic sync work.

If the journal shows you one setup that has been quietly costing you money, it has paid for itself.

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