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Trading Journal

Capture every trade with enough context to improve the next one

The journal is the core data model in TheProfitPath. It stores entries, exits, notes, emotions, images, setups, and draft state so traders can review both execution and decision quality.

Sections
12
Reading time
3 min
Opens in app
Journal

What a trade contains

Trades can store entry and exit prices, quantity, stop loss, take profit, commissions, P&L, R-multiple, notes, emotions, confidence, confluences, rule violations, rating, images, and checklist state.

Logging fast

Quick log (press Q on the Trades page) takes the fill on one screen: symbol, side, size, entry, exit, stop, times, account and playbook, with the P&L and R worked out as you type. Save and log another keeps the symbol, side, size, account and playbook for the next fill. Log a similar trade starts from any existing trade. The full journal entry adds mindset, review notes and screenshots in four steps.
Open Quick log

P&L, fees and R

P&L is net of fees: the price move times size times the point value, minus commissions. Futures use their contract multiplier (NQ $20, ES $50, MNQ $2, CL $1,000 a point and more), shown in the form so you can change it. Leave P&L calculated and it follows every price edit, or type your broker's figure (partial exits) and it stays as entered. R is net P&L over the dollars at risk to your stop, so a futures R is measured in contract dollars, not points.

Find any trade

Search, filters (side, date range in your time zone, result, status, playbook, symbol), sorting and the totals at the top all run over your whole journal, not just the trades on screen. Choose the columns you want (playbook, account, stop, target, fees, R, hold time, rating, emotion) and save filters, sort and columns as named views. Links can open a view directly, for example /trades?status=open or /trades?range=week&result=loss.
Open Trades

Bulk edits and undo

Select trades (shift-click selects a range, or select every matching trade) to set the playbook, account, account type or rating, rename a symbol, add or remove confluences and rule violations, export, or move them to the trash. Every bulk change comes with Undo, which puts each trade back exactly as it was. P&L, prices and times are never bulk edited.

Keyboard

On the Trades page: / searches, Q quick-logs, N opens a full entry, J and K move between trades, Enter opens one, E edits, X selects, # moves the selection to the trash and Esc clears it. In a trade's details, the left and right arrows step through the page. Press ? for the full list.

Drafts and edits

Incomplete trades can stay as drafts. The edit flow supports opening and closing times, status changes, image attachments, and post-trade journaling fields, and saves as you type.

Import, duplicates and undo

CSV and Notion imports show every detected trade for review before anything is saved. Re-importing a file updates the trades it created earlier instead of duplicating them. If you imported the wrong file, Undo import on the summary moves the trades it created to the trash; trades it updated keep their new values.

Trash and recovery

Deleting moves trades to the trash for 30 days. Undo restores them straight away; Settings, Recovery lets you search the trash, restore or permanently delete one or many trades, or empty it.
Open Recovery

Export

Export every trade that matches your filters, or just the selected ones, to CSV with all fields: times, prices, size, stop, target, fees, net P&L, R, risk, hold time, playbook, account, emotions, confluences, rule violations and notes as plain text.

Accounts and strategies

Trades can be linked to an account and a strategy, which lets the app group performance by journal account, prop firm, data source, and playbook.

Public sharing

Some trades can be marked public and reused by the community features and share cards.

Example use case

Record the setup, attach screenshots, record what could improve, then review it in analytics later.

Example
trade
  -> entry / exit
  -> emotions
  -> notes
  -> review in analytics

Journal guides

The main pages that work with trading data.