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Trading Journal

Master the journal: add trades, manage columns, use filters and tags

Add a Trade

Complete guide to adding a trade with inline entry -- fill a draft row cell by cell

4 min read

Edit and Delete Trades

How to change trades with inline cell editing, and how to delete them

2 min read

Trade Fields Explained

Understand every field when logging a trade: which create the trade, which fill in automatically, and which are optional

4 min read

Understanding the Risk Column

What the dot's colour reports, what its word names, and how row 2 judges your sizing against your own plan

3 min read

Risk Management Badges

What the Risk Free, Locking Profits, Covering Fees, Tightening and other risk badges mean and how they are assigned

3 min read

Risk Zone Colors

The color-coded risk states that indicate trade health at a glance

2 min read

The Mini Dashboard: Overview

A tour of the sticky summary panel that sits above your trades table — its tabs, its boxes, and how it adapts to your screen.

5 min read

The Status Boxes: Risk, Recovery, Limits & News

Everything the Next Trade Risk, Recovery Status, and Limits Tracker boxes show — plus the news ticker.

9 min read

The Metrics & Stats Area

Every performance metric in the Mini Dashboard's stats grid and bottom bar, plus the five density modes.

10 min read

Quick Settings: Every Control

A complete reference to the Journal-tab and Dashboard-tab controls in the Mini Dashboard's Quick Settings bar.

10 min read

Full Screen, Pinning & Personalizing the Panel

Pin or unpin the Mini Dashboard, collapse the sidebar, go full screen, and tailor the panel to how you trade.

6 min read

Trade Tags

How auto-tags work, how to create custom tags, and how tags enhance your analytics

3 min read

Column Filters and Visibility

How to toggle column visibility and apply filters to find specific trades

2 min read

Action Timeline

See the real order of fills — how a position was built and reduced

3 min read

Partial Closes & Scaling

How TradeLog combines partial closes and scale-ins into one trade, and the labels you'll see

3 min read

Journal Table Columns Explained

A column-by-column reference for the journal trade table -- what every column shows, and which ones appear only in certain contexts.

4 min read