the photo-first trade journal
Drop a chart. Tag the setup. Flip past trades to see how the same pattern actually played out — not how it looked at entry.
50 setups free forever · $49/yr Pro · 3× cheaper than Edgewonk
why traders switch from spreadsheets
Stop being seduced by the entry.
Every thumbnail in your library shows what happened *after* the trigger — not the chart you screenshotted at entry. Your A+ setup last Tuesday looks like the chop-fest it really was. Pattern matching on truth.
Stats your gut already suspects.
We rank every tag combo you actually use — setup × session × instrument × regime — by expectancy. The math tells you that London + pullback-continuation is your A-game and that NY breakouts are quietly bleeding you. No black-box ML. Honest aggregation.
Hypothetical edge is not real edge.
Tag a TradingView bar-replay setup as study, log a real trade as live. Same UI, same tags, same flip — but stats sit in separate buckets. Your cherry-picked 80% replay win rate can't sneak into your live expectancy.
what changes after week 2
Most traders think they know their best setup. After 20 trades tagged through TradeDeck, the Style-Fit panel ranks every tag combo by expectancy.
The London-pullback you thought was your A-game might be a coin flip. The 3am-volatility-fade you take occasionally might be your biggest edge. This isn't optimization. It's discovery.
Tag every entry with how you felt taking it: by-the-book, rushed, FOMO, revenge, patient. After 50 closed trades, the per-emotion expectancy is brutal.
Tilt trades aren't 60% losers — they're 40% losers with -1.8R losses and +0.5R wins. Once you've seen that math on your own trades, the next "revenge" thought feels different.
Every chart looks beautiful at entry. That's why you took the trade. The grid in TradeDeck shows the outcome chart by default — what actually happened after you pressed buy.
Tap any card to flip back to the entry view, but the truth is what you see first. Pattern recognition rewires when the input is reality, not anticipation.
dual mode · same UI
Bar-replay practice is real practice — but it's not real edge. TradeDeck gives study mode its own stat bucket so your hypothetical wins can't pollute your live expectancy.
When you go live, you don't change apps. The same library, the same tags, the same flip. You just toggle the source. New traders build a study library first, then graduate in place.
two flows · zero friction
The capture modal handles both. One toggle inside Trade details. We remember which one you picked.
For when you just know you won $245.
For when you want every dial.
picked over what
| Feature | TradeDeck | Edgewonk | TradeZella | Excel / Notion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual price | $49/yr | $169/yr | $348/yr | free |
| Photo-first library | ✓ | — | — | manual |
| Outcome-first flip | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Tag-filtered grid | ✓ | partial | partial | manual |
| Style-Fit ranking (no AI) | ✓ | — | AI bloat | — |
| Live + study separated | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Square-cropped uniform thumbnails | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Per-trade fee tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | manual |
| Public profile + share cards | ✓ | — | limited | — |
| Self-hosted, your data | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
Prices verified at time of writing. Other rows reflect documented features and our own usage. Spotted something off? Tell us — we'll fix this page.
priced like one coffee a month
Same UI, same features, same library on both tiers. The difference is volume — Free caps at 50 setups total, Pro is unlimited. We don't paywall the analyzer or the share cards. Stats work identically; you just need a paid seat once you're journaling in volume.
negative space, by design
Most journals add bloat over time. Signal services. Copy trading. AI "insights." Social feeds. We're publishing this list so future-us can't cave to the "just one more feature" pressure.
The user is the intelligence. We rank tag combos by expectancy with plain math. No black-box ML pretending to find your edge.
We're a journal, not a broker. Your library is yours. We don't surface other people's trades into yours.
Public profiles exist. Endless scroll, follower counts, like-driven dopamine? Not the product.
We don't take a cut for steering you to a broker. CSV export keeps your data portable forever.
Style-Fit, goal bar, future outlook are all in the free tier. You pay for library volume, not for the math.
If a feature doesn't help you trade better, it doesn't ship. You'll know we kept this promise by what's missing six months from now.
see a real library
Curated chart setups across regimes, sessions, and instruments. Each card defaults to the outcome view — tap to flip to the trigger.
questions we hear
Yes. The capture modal has a Simple mode: pick Win / Break-even / Loss, type the dollar amount, save. We compute R from your dollar risk (starting equity × risk %).
When you do want to track price levels, flip to Comprehensive in the same modal. The toggle is sticky — pick once, it stays.
Free is 50 setups total — not per month. Every feature is unlocked. Style-Fit, goal bar, future outlook, share cards, custom tags, public profile (Pro-only). Once your library hits 50, new captures pause until you upgrade or archive old ones — but everything you've already saved stays viewable and exportable.
Casual traders can run on Free for months. Active daily traders typically hit 50 in 2-4 weeks.
TradeDeck is photo-first. Other journals are spreadsheet-first with screenshots bolted on. The grid in TradeDeck shows the outcome chart of every past trade as a thumbnail by default — pattern recognition is the primary review tool, not a metadata report.
We're also 3-7× cheaper, separate live from study stats (none of them do), and explicitly never add AI features. The whole product is opinionated about what NOT to build.
In Comprehensive mode, you can enter your Actual P&L next to the computed R outcome. The delta — Computed − Actual — is your fees + slippage for that trade, displayed inline.
The actual P&L is stored on every setup, so per-instrument and per-time-period fee leakage views are coming.
No. Archiving removes the tag from new-setup pickers and the filter bar, but every past setup keeps its tags. Historical Style-Fit math stays intact. Restore the tag any time. There is no hard delete.
Yes — and we don't gate it. CSV of all your setups + ZIP of all your screenshots, on every plan, anytime. We're self-hosted with no broker partnerships. You're never locked in.
Launch week only. 200 seats at $199 each. Lifetime Pro — no recurring charge, ever. If we raise prices later, your seat is locked in. The proceeds bankroll our first 6 months of infra so we don't have to take outside money.
Because the value of a trade journal is the intelligence YOU build by tagging and reviewing your own decisions. AI tagging removes the act that creates the edge. We rank your data with plain math (Style-Fit). What's broken in your trading is best discovered by you, on your own data, in plain English.
It's also a permanent scope boundary. We will not add AI features. Read it as a forcing function — we have to make the manual flow good enough that you don't miss what we never built.
50 setups free, no card. When the library compounds past 50, $49/yr keeps it growing forever — or claim a lifetime seat while they last.
