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Trade Journal & Stats

Record what happened while the original plan is still visible.

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Illustrative example, not current market data

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Example

Illustrative example, not current market data.

Import your broker fills

Import first. That is the point of the journal.

Your file is read in your browser; nothing is sent until you press Import. Press it and the file's text goes to your own journal, where the trades and the broker fields behind them are kept against your account. There is no delete button here yet, so removal is by email request (see the privacy page).

Interactive Brokers Flex (XML) is the primary path; a broker CSV works too and we map the columns for you.

What the importer does not read
  • Splits, consolidations, dividends and other corporate actions. A trades export does not carry them, so a position held across one nets the pre-event and post-event share counts together and its average entry and P&L will be wrong. Adjust that trade yourself, or keep it out of the file.
  • Currency conversion. Each trade keeps the currency your broker reported and nothing is converted, so a book that spans currencies gets a total without a currency symbol and a warning beside it.
  • Anything outside the trades section. Expiries, exercises and assignments arrive as ordinary rows if your broker reports them there, and are flagged in the import summary when the file says so.

You are viewing example data. Load your own file to import for real. Importing replaces the example.

Your trades

InstrumentDirQtyEntryExitRealised P&LStatusPlan
NVDAlong40120––
Open
–
MSFT 20260918 C400long25.57.5US$397.00
Closed
–
TSLAshort50255268-US$652.00
Closed
–Retro
AAPLlong100150161US$1,098.00
Closed
Plan

Performance stats

n = 3 closed trades

Net P&L
US$843.00

n = 3 closed trades

Cumulative realised R
2.2R

n = 1 planned trades, 33.3% of this group

Profit factor
2.29

2 winners, 1 losers

Avg R vs planned
2.2R

n = 1 planned trades

Win rate
66.7%

n = 3 decided trades

Avg win
US$747.50

n = 2 winners

Avg loss
US$652.00

n = 1 losers

Max drawdown
US$652.00

n = 3 closed trades, too few to read

Kelly fraction needs 30 closed trades before it means anything, and you have 3. It is a research statistic only, never a recommended allocation.

Equity curve (cumulative realised P&L)

n = 3 closed trades

Drawdown through time

Not enough closed trades yet. This needs 10 and you have 3.

Below that, the shape of the line is mostly the order the trades happened to close in: put the same loss last instead of first and the picture changes completely.

Cumulative realised R

Not enough trades with a pre-trade risk limit yet. This needs 10 and you have 1.

Below that, the shape of the line is mostly the order the trades happened to close in: put the same loss last instead of first and the picture changes completely. A trade counts here once it is linked to a plan card you wrote before placing it, and that card carries a maximum risk.

Month-on-month

n = 3 closed trades across 1 month

MonthP&LMoM %
2026-07US$843.001.7%

By asset class

n = 3 closed trades in 2 groups. A group of one or two trades is an anecdote, not a rate.

GroupNWin %Net P&L
stocks250%US$446.00
options1100%US$397.00

By thesis category

n = 3 closed trades in 2 groups. A group of one or two trades is an anecdote, not a rate.

GroupNWin %Net P&L
Unlinked250%-US$255.00
Trend continuation1100%US$1,098.00

The fallback for a broker we don’t import yet. Importing is the primary path; this is here for the odd one-off.

What this tool does

Import your broker fills, match each trade to the plan you wrote beforehand, and read your win rate, profit factor and average return against the risk you planned.

The full instructions, and the definition and limit of every number it produces, open with the tool itself.

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