The trading journal that actually tells you something true.
Auto-imports your fills, charts them on real backtest data, and an AI coach grounded in your own trade history surfaces patterns you'd miss. Heuristic fallback when the LLM is offline — the journal never silently fails on you.
Why Tradelyst
Three things existing journals don't get right.
Sub-3-second trade entry
Press N from anywhere, fill a smart-defaulted form, hit ⌘+Enter. Designed for the trader who logs ten trades a day and quits the moment friction creeps in.
Charts on your own data
Real backtest bars stored locally — NQ, ES, MNQ, MES, GC, MGC. Sub-300ms loads, no broker iframe, no third-party feed flake.
AI grounded in your history
GPT-5 reads your structured facts, not your prose. Every output traces back to a number in your database. Heuristic fallback when the model is down — never a blank screen.
What's inside
Built for the trader who wants the truth.
Trade entry that doesn't fight you
The fastest journal entry in any product. Global keyboard shortcut, smart defaults from your last trade, futures-aware price parsing.
- ▸R-multiple and net P&L preview as you type
- ▸Symbol picker covering NQ / ES / MNQ / MES / GC / MGC, plus a free-text fallback for any other contract
- ▸Mood / energy emoji buttons — one tap each
- ▸Save & new for batch backfilling old trades
Every trade, on its own chart
Click a trade, see a real candlestick chart with your entry, stop, and exit marked. Pulled from a local backtest data store — no flaky broker iframes, no rate limits during your review session.
- ▸Auto-selects 1m / 5m / 1h based on hold time
- ▸Entry / Stop / Exit drawn as price lines
- ▸Fills marked with arrow markers, side-aware
- ▸Auto-backfills missing symbols on first view
An AI coach that doesn't make things up
Morning brief in your inbox at 07:30. Post-trade review on every closed trade. Both grounded in structured facts the model can't hallucinate around — and both have deterministic heuristic fallbacks so the journal never just gives up.
- ▸Morning brief: yesterday + week patterns + question to anchor the day
- ▸Post-trade review: verdict, score, lesson, behavioral flags
- ▸Privacy mode: strips $ amounts before prompts (default on)
- ▸Per-tier monthly cap with transparent percentage display
Analytics that find the leak
Dashboard for the day-to-day, analytics page for the deep dive. Heatmap by day-of-week × hour. R-multiple distribution. After-loss vs after-win behavior. Sizing-vs-outcome scatter. The leak detection most journals don't bother with.
- ▸Equity curve with max drawdown markers
- ▸Per-setup expectancy with sample-size confidence
- ▸Tilt detection: trades after losses underperforming?
- ▸Hourly cron refreshes — sub-500ms warm load
Stop typing your trades in
Drop a Tradovate CSV or any generic-format export. Auto-detects format, pairs Buy + Sell fills into trades, dedupes on re-imports. Excel and TradingView webhooks too.
- ▸Tradovate "Orders" export — pairs fills automatically
- ▸Generic CSV / Excel (.xlsx) for any broker that exports a tabular file
- ▸TradingView webhook with per-user secret
- ▸Re-importing the same file is safe — zero duplicates
Integrations
Works with your broker, not against it.
Bring your fills in via CSV today, or wait for the one-click broker connections we're building out with our partners.
Partnership in progressDirect connect for your Tradovate fills, planned for v0.9 once the partnership and OAuth client registration are finalised.
CSV import (Tradovate Orders export) works today
Partnership in progressOne-click sync from NinjaTrader, planned alongside the Tradovate rollout once the partnership program clears.
CSV import (Generic format) works today
CSV / Excel
LiveDrop any broker export — Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TraderEvolution, or a generic format. Auto-detected and deduplicated on re-import.
LivePersonal webhook URL receives alert payloads — log signals in real time without a broker connection.
Rithmic · IBKR
PlannedOn the roadmap, gated on the same partnership track as Tradovate and NinjaTrader.
Trading a broker we don't list? Join via invite — CSV importers are an afternoon of work each.
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