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 are shown in a row under the header — entry and exit with their times, size, fees, R, return and how long you held — and because they change your P&L they are edited in the full trade form: Edit trade, beside the share button.
The chart replay sits beside the journal, so it is on screen as soon as you open an entry and stays put while you scroll through your notes. Under it, the excursion shows the best and worst price while the trade was open and how much of the move you kept.
Opening the full trade form
Edit trade (desktop) and the pen beside the share button (phone) open the full form for the same trade — prices, size, dates, fees, partial fills and option legs. On the form, the Trade / Journal toggle brings you back to the entry. If you have edits you haven't saved, either asks before leaving.
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.