Free Trading Journal
No account. Everything stays on this device.
Why keep a trading journal
A trading journal is a record of every trade you take, kept in one place, in the same format every time. Instrument, direction, entry, exit, size, and what you were thinking when you took it. That sounds simple, and it is. The value isn't in any single entry. It's in what a full, honest record of many trades tells you that memory alone cannot.
Most traders remember their biggest wins vividly and let their small losses blur together. That's not a character flaw, it's just how memory works under any kind of emotional weight. The problem is that a trading record built from memory is quietly wrong in a specific direction: it always looks better than the real thing. A journal is the fix, because it doesn't forget anything, including the trades you'd rather not think about.
Why logging every trade matters more than it seems
A journal is only as useful as it is complete. If you log the trades you're proud of and skip the ones that went badly, every number that comes out of it, win rate, average R, net P&L, is inflated. Worse, it's inflated in a way that feels true, because you built it yourself in good faith. The discipline that makes a journal worth keeping is logging the trade the moment it closes, win or lose, before you've had time to decide it doesn't count.
There's also a sample size problem. Judging whether a setup works from five trades, three of which you remember and two you don't, isn't a real test of anything. A complete log of twenty or fifty trades starts to say something real about how a setup actually performs, not how it felt.
R multiple: judging a trade by what you risked
P&L tells you how much money a trade made or lost. It doesn't tell you whether that was a good outcome relative to what you put on the line. A trade that risks 50 to make 100 and a trade that risks 500 to make 100 have the same P&L and are not remotely the same trade. R multiple fixes this by measuring the result against the risk: it's P&L divided by how much you stood to lose if your stop loss had been hit. A 2R trade made twice what it risked. A -1R trade lost exactly what it risked, which is what a stop loss is supposed to guarantee.
R multiple is also what makes a mixed portfolio comparable. A stock trade, a forex trade, and a commodity trade all have different price scales and different position sizes, so their raw P&L figures don't sit next to each other meaningfully. Their R multiples do, because R multiple has already normalized for size and risk. That's why this journal calculates it for every trade that has a stop loss set, and why it refuses to guess at one when a trade doesn't have a stop loss logged. A fabricated R multiple would be worse than none at all.
One tool, any market
This journal doesn't distinguish between stocks, forex, and commodities as separate modes. The instrument field is free text, so RELIANCE, EUR/USD, and Gold are all logged the same way, with the same fields and the same math. P&L and R multiple only need a direction, an entry, an exit, a size, and optionally a stop loss. None of that depends on what kind of market the instrument trades in.
Everything stays on your device
Every trade you log here is stored in your browser's local storage, on this device only. Nothing is sent to a server, there's no account, and there's no sign-in. That also means nothing syncs between devices or browsers automatically, and clearing your browser data removes the journal along with it. Export a CSV copy on a regular basis if this record matters to you. Export is one-way: it makes a copy for your own records, but that CSV cannot be loaded back into this tool later. If you switch devices or clear your data, you start a fresh, empty journal here regardless of what you've exported.
A logging tool, not advice
This tool records trades you have already made and calculates numbers that follow directly from what you typed in. It does not recommend a trade, does not flag setups, and does not provide signals of any kind. Every figure it shows you is arithmetic on your own past decisions, nothing more.
Frequently asked questions
What is a trading journal for?
It's a record of every trade you take: what you traded, the direction, your entry and exit, and what you were thinking. Most traders remember their big wins and forget their small losses, so their sense of how they're actually doing drifts away from reality. A journal fixes that. Logging every trade, not just the interesting ones, is what makes the record trustworthy.
Why does logging every trade matter more than most traders think?
Because a partial record lies. If you only log the trades you're proud of, your win rate and average R multiple both come out better than your real performance. The value of a journal is statistical: it takes a real sample size to see whether a setup actually works, and a sample missing your losses isn't a real sample.
What is R multiple and why use it instead of just P&L?
R multiple is your profit or loss measured against what you risked, not against a currency amount. A trade risking 50 that makes 100 is a 2R win. A trade risking 500 that makes 100 is only 0.2R, even though the profit in currency is identical. P&L alone can't tell those two trades apart, and they are not the same trade. R multiple is what lets you compare a stock trade to a forex trade to a commodity trade on one consistent scale.
Does this work for forex and commodities, or only stocks?
All three, as one tool. The instrument field is free text, so you can log RELIANCE, EUR/USD, or Gold the same way. Entry, exit, size, and stop loss are just numbers. The math behind P&L and R multiple doesn't care what market they came from.
Where is my data stored?
In your browser's local storage, on this device only. There's no account, no sign-in, and nothing is sent to a server. That also means the data doesn't sync between devices or browsers on its own.
What happens if I clear my browser data?
Your journal is gone. Local storage is tied to this browser on this device, so clearing site data, using a different browser, or switching devices all start a fresh, empty journal. Export a CSV copy regularly if the record matters to you.
Can I re-import an exported CSV?
No. Export is one-way, for backup and for your own records outside the browser. If you clear your data or switch devices, a previously exported CSV won't restore your journal here. It's a copy to keep, not a save file to reload.
Does this tool give trading advice or signals?
No. This is a logging tool, not an advisor. It records the trades you already made and calculates the numbers that follow directly from what you entered: P&L, R multiple, win rate. It doesn't recommend a trade, flag an opportunity, or tell you what to do next.