Most journals don't die from lack of discipline — they die from friction. A log that takes 3–5 minutes per trade is dead on arrival. This one takes 30 seconds, and the dashboard shows you exactly which setups pay you and which ones quietly bleed you.
Excel / .xlsx · works offline · nothing to install · 12 sample trades included
Illustrative view of the included 12-trade sample data.
Everything that makes a journal get abandoned is a design decision — and every one of them can be removed.
If logging a trade takes more than half a minute, you'll skip it on a busy day. Then a week. Then forever.
Elaborate 30-column spreadsheets get abandoned in week two. The 5-field ones survive a year.
One broken cell and the whole thing feels like work. Every formula is pre-filled down 300 rows and protected by direction logic.
One workbook, two sheets. That's it — no setup, no onboarding, no account.
The only thing you touch. Ten columns, dropdowns where typos would hurt, and Net P&L calculated for you.
Nothing to fill in. It reads the Trades sheet and rebuilds itself every time you add a row.
Traders rarely lose because the strategy is bad. They lose because they take trades that were never in the plan. This splits every trade into two columns and shows you the cost of that habit in dollars.
| Sample month | Trades | Win rate | Net P&L | Expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Followed the plan | 8 | 87.5% | +$1,376.00 | +$172.00 |
| Unplanned trades | 4 | 0% | −$445.50 | −$111.38 |
| Total | 12 | 58.3% | +$930.50 | +$77.54 |
These are the 12 sample trades shipped inside the file. Replace them with yours and the whole dashboard re-calculates.
Deliberate. Writing one honest line about why you took the trade is where the learning happens — auto-imported journals get filled by robots and read by nobody. If you want the import, it's the main feature of the Pro version.
Yes. Net P&L is direction-aware: mark the trade Short and the calculation flips automatically, so a falling price shows as a profit.
It's built for Excel and works fully there. Google Sheets and Numbers will open it, but a few formatting details and the chart may shift. If you're on Sheets, the values and formulas still work.
Formulas are pre-filled to row 300 out of the box. To extend, drag the last formula row down — the dashboard reads the full column range.
No. It's a spreadsheet. It records what you did; it doesn't tell you what to do. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to trade.
Broker CSV import, R-multiple analysis, time-of-day performance and a streak calendar. It's built from feedback on this free version — leave a note if there's something you need.
Nothing beyond sending you an occasional update about the journal. No selling, no sharing. See the privacy policy.
Open the file, delete the 12 sample rows, log your next trade. If it's still with you in week six, that's the whole product working.
No account, no email required, no upsell wall.
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