Free Tool

Trading Journal

Log every trade in R, watch your prop-firm buffer in real time, and see whether you actually have an edge. Runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded, nothing leaves your device.

Setup

Set your account once. If you trade a funded account, pick your firm and its published rules appear beside the fields — taken from each firm’s own documentation.

YOUR ACCOUNT

Account size Risk per trade (%)

Risk per trade$500

PROP ACCOUNT

Firm

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My daily loss limit (%) My max drawdown (%) Drawdown type

Profit target (%)

Min trading days

Best day cap (%)

TODAY

Current equity Peak equity (high-water mark) Open trade P&L (floating)

Firms measure drawdown on equity. An open loser counts against today’s limit even though it has not closed.

Trade Log

Each row is one trade. Fill entry, stop and exit and the R column works itself out. Press More to add your target, session, any mistake, a chart link and notes.

Date	Instrument	Book	Dir	Entry	Stop	Exit	Setup	Feeling	R	P&L	Result	More	Remove

Your trades are saved automatically in this browser. Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed — but clearing your browser data, or switching to another device or browser, will lose them. Save a backup file to keep your history safe and move it anywhere.

Prop Guard

How many dollars are left before a rule trips. The smaller of the two buffers is your real ceiling for the session.

DAILY BUFFER LEFT

$5,000

MAX DRAWDOWN BUFFER

$10,000

REAL CEILING

$5,000

STATUS

ON TRACK

Challenge progress

PROFIT TARGET

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Set a profit target in Setup.

TRADING DAYS

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Days with at least one closed trade.

BEST DAY SHARE

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Your best day as a share of total profit.

TODAY

Closed today plus open P&L.

Your Numbers

TRADES

WIN RATE

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NET P&L

EXPECTANCY / TRADE

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PROFIT FACTOR

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AVG WIN / AVG LOSS

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AVERAGE R / TRADE

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PLANNED vs ACTUAL R

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LONGEST LOSING STREAK

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LARGEST LOSS

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R ON MISTAKE TRADES

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TRADES WITH A MISTAKE

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Cumulative P&L — your logged trades

Drawn only from rows with an entry, a stop and an exit. Running total in currency, because R is only additive when every trade risked the same percentage.

Where your results come from

Logging is not reviewing. This is where the pattern usually shows up — most traders find their worst losses cluster around a state of mind, a session or one repeated mistake, not a setup.

Weekly Review

Fifteen minutes at the end of the week. The numbers fill themselves in; the three answers are yours and are saved with the journal.

This week

1 · What did I do well this week? 2 · What cost me money — and was it the market or me? 3 · The one rule I will follow next week

Save it anywhere

Prefer a spreadsheet or paper? The Excel workbook has the same fields, the same R calculation, the breakdowns by setup, feeling, session and mistake, prop-challenge progress and a weekly review tab — works in Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers. The printable PDF is three pages: a pre-session checklist, a trade log and a weekly review.

Excel workbook Printable PDF

Optional — connect Telegram. By default this journal never leaves your browser. If you want it on your phone and your laptop, connect the Telegram account you already use for signals and your journal syncs between them. You can disconnect any time and your data stays in the browser either way.

Why R, not pips

R is your risk on a trade expressed as one unit. Risk $500 and make $1,000 and that is +2R, whatever the instrument. It lets a gold trade and an index trade sit in the same column honestly.

One warning most journals ignore: R is only additive when every trade risked the same percentage. Risk 0.5% on one and 2% on the next and adding the R values together tells you nothing. This journal leads with currency and flags you if your risk size varies.

Disclaimer: This journal is a record-keeping tool, not trading advice, and it does not guarantee that you will pass any evaluation. Prop firm rules were verified against each firm’s own published documentation in August 2026 — firms change terms, so confirm the current rules with your firm before trading. Trading forex and CFDs carries significant risk of loss.