FAQ

What is this?

A fast, no-frills trade journal for discretionary traders, built around two jobs: logging backtests (FX Replay, TradingView replay, strategy testers) and live/funded trading (MT5 and others) in one place, then reviewing them week by week. It's free.

How do I import trades from MT5?

This is the fastest path — no files needed:

In MT5 press Ctrl+T to open the Toolbox and go to the History tab.
Right-click the list and make sure the view is Positions (not Orders or Deals).
Select the rows you want — Ctrl+A for everything — and press Ctrl+C.
In the journal, click ⇪ Import / paste and paste. A preview appears instantly.
Choose live or backtest, give the account a label (e.g. FTMO 100k), and click Import.

Profit is stored net (profit + commission + swap). Re-pasting the same rows is safe — duplicates are skipped automatically.

What's the “MT5 offset” box?

MT5 shows server time, and most brokers run UTC+2/UTC+3 — about 7 hours ahead of New York. The journal shifts imported MT5 times back by this many hours so trades land in the right killzone (London, NY AM…). If your broker differs, change the number; set 0 to keep server time as-is.

How do I import from FX Replay?

In FX Replay, open your closed positions / trade history and Export CSV.
In the journal: ⇪ Import / paste → choose file (or paste the CSV's contents).
It defaults to backtest; label the session (e.g. FXR-XAU-2019) and import.

Any CSV with a sensible header row works — the importer matches columns like symbol / side / qty / entry price / close price / open time / SL / TP / net P&L. So exports from most platforms import fine too.

How do I import from TradingView?

From the Strategy Tester: open List of trades, export the CSV, then paste it or choose the file. TradingView's export doesn't include the symbol, so type it in the Default symbol box first. Entry and exit rows are paired into single trades, and the Signal column becomes the setup tag.

For manual replay/paper trades on TradingView, the cleanest path is logging them with ＋ Add trade as you take them — it's about 10 seconds per trade.

What do “Live” and “Backtest” modes do?

Every trade is tagged one or the other. The pills at the top filter everything — stats, equity curve, weekly bars, table — so you can compare your backtest edge against live execution honestly. Use the account label for finer slicing: one label per funded challenge, per backtest dataset, etc.

Where do R-multiples and sessions come from?

R is computed from your logged stop loss: (exit − entry) ÷ risk. No SL logged, no R — log stops and the Avg R stat starts working. Sessions are tagged from the trade's open time in New York time: London 02:00–05:00, NY AM 07:00–11:30, Lunch, NY PM 13:00–16:00, Asia overnight. You can override the session on any trade.

How do weekly charts work?

The week dropdown always contains This week — a fresh chart starts automatically every Monday, nothing to set up. Past weeks stay in the dropdown, and you can click any bar in the weekly P&L chart to jump to that week.

What are the Analytics, Calendar, Funded and Risk-calc tabs?

The sidebar holds four views beyond the journal:

Analytics — your edge sliced by setup, session, symbol, day of week, account, and live-vs-backtest, plus an R-multiple distribution chart. Respects the filters at the top.
Calendar — a month grid coloured by each day's net P&L, with a monthly total.
Funded — pick your prop-firm program and starting balance and it tracks your account against the rules: profit-target progress, max-loss floor (static or trailing), daily-loss buffer and minimum trading days, with a status banner that warns before you breach. It also shows a side-by-side comparison of major firms' rules (FTMO, FundingPips, FundedNext, The5ers, Alpha Capital, E8, Topstep, Apex). Those presets are templates checked periodically — rules change often, so verify against your firm's current terms and edit your starting balance to match. Tracking is from your logged closed-trade P&L, so it can't see intraday open-position swings; treat it as a guide alongside the firm's own dashboard. Nothing here is financial advice.
Risk calc — position sizing from account size, risk % and stop distance, for XAUUSD / NQ / MNQ / CFDs or a custom $-per-point.

What's the demo mode?

The Try the demo button runs the full journal without an account; data is stored only in your browser (and disappears if you clear site data). Create an account to keep trades safe and synced across devices. To move demo trades to an account: Export CSV in demo, log in, then import the file.

Is my data private?

Yes. Your trades are stored in a database row-locked to your login — no other user can read them, and there are no broker connections or API keys involved. Export everything to CSV anytime; delete trades anytime. See the privacy page.

Can I drive this with Claude in Chrome?

Yes — the journal is built to be automation-friendly (semantic forms, stable element IDs). With the Claude in Chrome extension you can say things like “open my trade journal and import the MT5 rows on my clipboard as live trades under FTMO 100k” or “give me a read on this week vs last week” and Claude can operate the page for you.

Will there be ads?

Possibly a small, clearly-marked banner in future to keep the hosting free. Never inside your data, and never based on your trades.

I found a bug / want a feature

Use the contact link in the footer (or tell the person who sent you here). Feature ideas that fit the spirit — fast logging, honest review — are welcome.