The edge in a journal isn't the numbers — it's the review. Every trade has a Journal & Review section for the context a price can't capture.
What you can capture
- Notes & lessons — the hero field; write what happened and what you'd do differently.
- Rating — grade your execution independent of the outcome.
- Market context and mood — the conditions and headspace you traded in.
- Strategy & checklist — which setup, and whether you followed your rules.
- Mistakes — tag recurring errors so the analytics can total their cost.
Editing while you read it
On the Journal the entry you are reading is the form. The rating, your state, the stop and target, the note and everything under Plan & context are live fields — there is no Edit button to press and no second screen to go to. Type a stop and the panels above it recalculate straight away: the R figure appears, and the excursion card stops saying the trade has no stop recorded.
Nothing saves until you say so. The header tells you where you stand — All changes saved or Unsaved changes — the entry in the list beside it carries an amber Unsaved marker, and Save (or Ctrl/⌘+S) commits. If you move to another entry with unsaved edits, we ask first, and offer to save on the way.
Moving through entries is quicker from the keyboard: ↑ and ↓ step through the list, Enter drops you into the note, and Esc comes back out. While you are typing, the arrow keys belong to the text — they never move you off the entry.
Prices, size, dates and fees are not edited here. They change your P&L, so they live on the Trade side of the toggle below, one click away.
Switching between the two views
A trade has two views and one switch between them. The Trade view is the form — prices, size, dates, levels and the setup chart. The Journal view is the review — notes, rating, mistakes, excursions and the AI autopsy. The Trade / Journal toggle in the header of either one takes you straight to the other for the same trade, on desktop and on your phone. If you have edits you haven't saved, it asks before leaving the form.
Why it pays off
Mistakes and checklist adherence feed the Reports page — you'll see the dollar cost of specific mistakes and how discipline correlates with results. Tagging honestly is what makes those reports useful.