TradesViz does a bit of everything, with the most generous free tier going. Worth asking whether broad is what actually makes you better, or just what keeps you busy.
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.
For traders who want the broadest feature surface and a usable free tier. TradesViz supports over 200 broker imports, 600 chart variants, spreads and options analytics, and a free plan that covers most basic needs. Strong if you want one tool that does many things.
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.
TradesViz is a feature-broad trading-journal SaaS that has earned a reputation for the most generous free tier in the category and the widest broker-import coverage on the market. The free plan supports basic logging, equity curves, and a meaningful number of imported trades. The paid tiers add over 200 broker integrations, 600 chart variants, options analytics, spreads handling, and a prop-firm-specific journal mode that tracks against FTMO, Apex, and Topstep rules.
It has positioned itself explicitly against what it calls "vibe app" competitors with heavier marketing and lighter substance. Most heavily used by US-based active traders who want one tool that covers the broadest set of asset classes and brokers.
Both cover the basics every journal needs. Both let you log trades manually or import them, tag with your method, see equity curves and basic performance reports. Both work for active discretionary traders.
The differences live in what each product is the answer to. TradesViz goes wide : the most features, the most brokers, the most asset classes, a free tier as the entry point. EdgeFound goes deep on a narrower problem : the work of actually improving as a discretionary trader, with a structured ritual and the statistical engine doing the analysis for you.
Three real strengths.
There is also a difference in product philosophy. TradesViz is broad and feature-rich, optimised for the trader who wants one tool with maximum surface area. EdgeFound is narrow and opinionated, optimised for the discretionary trader who wants the journal to do the analytical work for them rather than expose more dashboards to query.
The best trading journal for discretionary traders is the one that matches the work you are actually trying to do.
Tier differences cover trade limits, broker count, and advanced analytics.
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.
Find out in five minutes a day.