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What it looks like
What you get
Every pip tracked.
Every edge visible.
Log trades, import from MT5 or Tradovate, and get the analytics you need to trade better.
Pair Logging
Log every forex trade — symbol, direction, entry and exit price, lot size, commission, and timestamps. Add notes, tag a strategy, attach chart screenshots.
Pip Calculation
Standard pairs and yen pairs detected automatically. Pip P&L calculated from your lot size — no manual math.
CSV Import
Export your trade history from MetaTrader 5 or Tradovate and import it. Entry/exit prices, lot sizes, commissions, and dates mapped automatically.
Full Analytics
Win rate, profit factor, expectancy, max drawdown, largest and average win/loss, consecutive loss streaks, calendar heatmap, and equity curve. Free covers your last 30 days; Pro keeps the whole history.
Multi-Account
Separate accounts for different brokers or account types — live, demo, funded. Each one tracks its own trades, balance, and metrics. Free covers two accounts; Pro removes the limit.
Free Forever
Trade logging, CSV import, goal tracking, and the calendar heatmap are free with no card and no cap on how many trades you log. Pro adds full analytics history, AI analysis, and cloud sync.
Logging a trade
Four fields in.
One honest record out.
A forex trade carries costs and decimal places that most journals flatten. These are the parts that decide whether the number you review later is true.
Pick the pair and direction
Choose what you traded and whether you went long or short. Majors, minors, and crosses all behave the same way, and a pair the app has not seen before can be typed in free-hand.
Enter your prices
Entry and exit go in at full forex precision. EUR/USD keeps all five decimals and USD/JPY keeps its three, so a trade is never quietly rounded to two places and re-scored as something it was not.
Add size and costs
Lot size, commission, and swap. Costs are held separately from gross profit and subtracted, so the figure that lands in your journal is the money that actually reached your account.
Write down why you took it
Tag the strategy, note what you saw in the chart, and record how you felt entering. Attach the screenshot while it is still fresh. This is the part that makes the review worth doing later.
MetaTrader import
Export the file.
Drop it in.
In MT5, open the Toolbox, go to the History tab, right-click and choose Positions, then right-click again to export. You get one row per closed position, which is exactly what a journal wants. In MT4, use the Account History tab and save the report. Most broker client areas — IC Markets and Pepperstone among them — will hand you the same history as a CSV if you would rather go that route.
There is no plugin, no expert advisor, and nothing to install on either side. MetaTrader exports are famously awkward files, so the importer is built for how they actually arrive rather than how they ought to look:
The MT5 preamble
MetaTrader 5 buries the real column header under rows of account information. The importer finds it instead of giving up on the file.
European number formats
Dates written 2025.08.28 or 28.08.2025, semicolon-separated columns, and comma decimals are all recognised. A loss written as −123,45 imports as a loss, not a gain.
Commission and swap
Both are read as their own values and subtracted rather than folded into gross profit. Journalling gross numbers overstates your edge by exactly your costs.
Forex precision
Five decimals are preserved on standard pairs and three on yen pairs, so your entry reads 1.08523 rather than 1.09.
If a column layout is not recognised, you map it once in the import dialog and the mapping is remembered for the next export from that broker.
Reading your results
The pairs you think
make you money.
Most traders can name their best pair and are wrong about it. Once your history is in, the breakdown by symbol settles the argument: win rate, average winner against average loser, and net result per pair, with costs already taken out. It is common to find that one pair has been quietly funding the losses on another for months.
Session analysis does the same thing to your clock. London, New York, Tokyo, and Sydney are scored separately, so a strategy that works in one session and bleeds in another stops being hidden inside a single blended win rate. The calendar heatmap puts every day on one screen, which is usually where a run of revenge trading becomes obvious in a way it never is trade by trade.
Underneath that sit the numbers you would expect: profit factor, expectancy, max drawdown, largest and average win and loss, consecutive loss streaks, and an equity curve. Free accounts see this for the last 30 days. Pro opens the full history — though your trade log, exports, and calendar heatmap always cover everything you have logged, on either plan.
FAQ
Common questions.
Straight answers.
Does it work with MT4, or only MT5?
Both. MT5 exports position history straight from the Toolbox History tab. For MT4, use Account History and save the report. Either way you are importing a file, so there is no plugin or expert advisor to install.
Which brokers can I import from?
Any broker that lets you download your history as CSV, which is effectively all of them. MetaTrader exports work directly, and broker client areas such as IC Markets and Pepperstone give you the same thing. Tradovate is supported for futures.
How are yen pairs handled?
USD/JPY and other yen crosses are detected on their own and priced at three decimals with a pip counted at the second, rather than being forced through the same rule as EUR/USD. You do not have to flag them.
Is swap tracked separately from commission?
Yes. They are stored as distinct values on the trade and both come off your gross result, so you can see how much of a position was eaten by holding it overnight.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. It runs in the browser on desktop and mobile with nothing to download, so you can log a trade from your phone and review it properly later on a bigger screen.
What do I get without paying?
Unlimited trade logging, CSV import and export, goals, risk rules, the full calendar heatmap, and up to two trading accounts, with no card required. Dashboard analytics cover your last 30 days on the free plan; Pro opens the full history and adds AI analysis and cloud sync.
What happens to my trades if I stop paying?
Nothing is deleted. Your trade log stays complete and exportable, and the calendar heatmap still shows everything. The dashboard analytics window returns to the last 30 days.
Do I have to sign up to look around?
No. The live demo opens the whole interface with sample trades loaded, so you can see the analytics and the import flow before deciding whether to create anything.
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