Tradervue is the name everyone has used since 2011. The question worth asking is whether the old reliable is still right for you, when it can't sync MT5 and still leaves the analysis to you.
For traders who want to actually improve. EdgeFound runs hedge-fund-grade statistical analysis on your own trades, tells you in plain sentences which of your setups are real and which are luck, stamps every trade with the macro context it happened in, and gives you a structured daily process you can keep. I built it and use it daily on my own book.
One of the original trading journals, founded in 2011 by Greg Reinacker. Strong notebook-style journaling for traders who like to write long entries about their trades. Generous free tier, solid broker imports for US equities and futures, trade replay, shared notebooks for collaboration.
Most journals just log what you did. EdgeFound is the one that helps you fix it.
The thesis is simple. Discretionary traders never improve at the rate they could because the work of improvement is too hard to sustain. Research-grade statistics on your own trades. Honest self-assessment at the end of a losing day. Macro context that lives in three other tabs you do not read mid-trade. Nobody has time for any of it on their own. So most traders end up with a logbook and the same recurring mistakes year after year. EdgeFound compresses all of that into five minutes a day and does the heavy work for you in the background.
EdgeFound runs the statistical work nobody else has time to do. Across every dimension of your method. Setup type, killzone, narrative, instrument, risk size. You get a plain sentence back. "Your London-session reversal setup is statistically working across 142 trades. Your New York continuation setup is leaking 0.3R per trade across 89 samples." The quant techniques behind it (Wilson confidence intervals, Monte Carlo projection, conditional probability analysis, sample-size gating) run in the background. You never have to learn any of it.
You don't trade in a vacuum. The same setup that works in one regime can fail in another. EdgeFound stamps every trade with the macro regime, the calendar context, and the positioning environment via MacroMap Research. So instead of "what is my win rate ?", you can finally ask "does this setup work in risk-off ?". That second question is the one that actually moves your performance.
P&L only tells you whether you made money. It is silent on whether you actually fixed what you said you would fix. The Triangle Index gives you a composite score across three dimensions : Edges (do your setups work ?), Process (are you following your plan ?), Risk (are you sizing correctly ?). The Forge tracks the mistakes you keep repeating and surfaces them statistically, not as narrative blame. Demon Watch flags revenge trades, FOMO entries, overleveraging. Same statistical rigour as the edge analysis.
The Daily Flow is a four-step ritual : Morning Prep (chart bias + macro brief + pause checklist), Trail of Thoughts (live multi-chart stream of your reasoning during the session), Trade Review (post-close per-trade card with adherence scoring), Evening Reflection (three weighted questions + a paper-pad). Five minutes on a normal day. Sized for the actual day of a working trader, because that's the day I built it around.
I trade discretionary FX and gold on my own account every day, alongside the macro portfolio I run for a law firm. EdgeFound carries my background. Applied mathematics, CFA Level II candidate, and years of trying every other journal on the market before deciding to build the one I actually needed. The features are there because I needed them to keep getting better, day after day.
Tradervue is one of the longest-running trading journals on the market, founded in 2011 by Greg Reinacker. It was built around a notebook-style approach : you log a trade, you write your notes, you go back later and read what you wrote. Strong US-broker import support (Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade, ThinkOrSwim, NinjaTrader, and dozens more). Trade tagging, performance reports by tag, trade replay, and a shared-notebook feature that lets you publish your journal entries to other traders for feedback.
The free tier is genuinely useful for someone starting out. The paid tiers add bulk imports, more advanced reports, and longer history retention. Loyal community of mostly US-based active day traders who like writing about their trades.
Both cover the basics every journal needs. You can log trades manually or import them, tag them with your method, see equity curves, expectancy, performance by tag, monthly P&L calendar. Both have a trade replay feature in some form. Both are subscription SaaS.
The differences live in what each product is the answer to.
Three things, honestly.
There are also surface-level differences. Tradervue has an older utility-style UI (the look of a tool that has been refined for fifteen years rather than redesigned). EdgeFound is more editorial : typography-led, restrained palette, designed to be a tool you reach for daily. Which one fits is a question of taste.
The best trading journal for discretionary traders is the one that matches the work you are actually trying to do.
Tier differences mostly cover trade-volume limits, advanced reports, and history retention.
Three plans you can mix. Trading Desk is the journal + analytics. MacroMap Research is the macro layer alone. The Full Edge bundles both with macro context wired into the daily flow.
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