A trade journal that tells you the truth

Most traders
don't journal.
The ones who do
do it badly.

Talk after the close. AI cross-references what you said against what you actually did. Pattern detection finds your real edge across hundreds of trades. Built by a trader, for traders who actually want to improve.

Start free →How it works
No credit card · 30 trades, 5 voice memos free per month, forever
9
Pattern dimensions
3
Voice journal flows
∞
AI messages on Premium
$0
To start, forever
The problem

Other journals show you
stats you already feel.

You know your win rate. You know your average loser. You know roughly when you trade well and when you don't. What you don't see is why — the gap between your thesis and your fills, the patterns hiding across 200 trades, the rationalization in your own voice memos.

Tradervue gives you charts. TradeZella has AI insights but caps the conversation at 5 messages a day. TraderSync wants $80 a month for the version that actually connects the dots.

Close the Trade does the thing none of them do: read what you said, compare it to what you did, and tell you the truth.

How it works

Three things, done well.

01
Import

CSV from any broker. IBKR Flex Queries auto-import every 4 hours on Premium. Executions are stored as-is and grouped into round-trip trades. Re-imports are idempotent — no duplicates, no manual cleanup.

Tradervue, ToS, IBKR, TradeStation, Schwab CSV. We auto-detect the format.

02
Reflect

Talk after the close. Three modes: brain dump for whatever's on your mind, per-trade memo for thesis-vs-execution, daily debrief for guided three-question reviews. Whisper transcribes. Claude cross-references with your actual fills.

The voice memo + execution data pairing is what no other journal does.

03
Improve

Pattern detection runs nightly across nine dimensions: time-of-day, hold time, setup performance, conviction calibration, emotion outcomes, position size, day-of-week, symbol concentration, drawdown behavior. With a real sample size, it tells you where your edge is and where you bleed.

Strengths to lean into. Leaks to fix. Statistical confidence on each.

What you get that you don't get elsewhere

The features they
won't build.

Voice + execution data, paired

Tradervue, TradeZella, TraderSync — none of them record voice. We do. And we cross-reference what you said against your actual fills. Caught yourself rationalizing? You'll see it on the trade page.

Behavioral pattern detection

Nine dimensions, statistical significance gating, nightly updates. Time-of-day edge. Conviction calibration. Drawdown tilt. Patterns surface in plain English — strengths and leaks separated.

Conversational coach, no caps

TraderSync caps Cypher at 5–60 messages per day depending on tier. TradeZella's AI runs auto only. Our coach has full context — your trades, patterns, journals — and unlimited messages on Premium.

Built by a trader

CMT Level 3 candidate. Active equities trader. The Pressure Report (Fault Line Macro) is the macro side of the same brain. The product exists because the existing journals didn't help me improve.

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when it earns it.

No credit card to start. The free tier is permanent — not a 7-day trap. Annual billing saves 30%.

Free
$0
forever

Real product, real limits.

  • ▸30 trades / month
  • ▸5 voice memos / month
  • ▸3 AI trade analyses / month
  • ▸On-page daily report
  • ▸Manual CSV import
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Base
$19/mo
per month · $159/yr

Unlimited journaling.

  • ▸Unlimited trades + memos + AI
  • ▸Daily report card via email
  • ▸All three voice flows
  • ▸All setups + custom tags
  • ▸30% off annual
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The whole product
Premium
$39/mo
per month · $327/yr

The coach you can't hire.

  • ▸Everything in Base
  • ▸Pattern detection (nightly)
  • ▸Conversational coach (unlimited)
  • ▸IBKR Flex auto-import
  • ▸Priority support
Choose Premium →
Questions

You probably want to know.

Is this for day traders or swing traders?+
Both, with the swing trader experience prioritized. Pattern detection works on any volume; voice journaling is genuinely better for swing traders who hold across sessions and have time to reflect. Day traders get the same tools — execution-level granularity captures scale-ins/outs accurately.
Can you handle options, futures, crypto?+
Equities and ETFs at launch. Options support is on the roadmap; futures/forex/crypto are not priorities. We'd rather do US equities exceptionally well than do five asset classes mediocrely.
What brokers do you support?+
CSV import works with any broker — we auto-detect IBKR Flex, ThinkOrSwim, Tradervue exports, and a generic CSV format. IBKR Flex Query auto-import (no manual exports) is a Premium feature. Schwab and Fidelity auto-import are on the roadmap.
Is my data private? Do you train AI on my trades?+
Yes private, no training. Voice memos and trade data live in private storage with row-level security. Anthropic and OpenAI process data on our behalf under their commercial API terms — they do not use your data to train models. We don't sell data and don't serve ads. Read the Privacy Policy.
Why should I pay $39/month when other journals are cheaper?+
Don't, at first. The free tier is real. If you hit the limits and the AI feedback or pattern detection has surfaced something useful, the math is simple: a single insight that fixes one bad habit pays for a year of Premium. If it doesn't help, cancel — annual billing has a 14-day prorated refund.
Is this investment advice?+
No. The AI generates educational, retrospective process commentary on your past trades. We don't predict markets, recommend buys/sells, or offer financial planning. Full disclaimer in Terms.
Who built this?+
A working equities trader and CMT Level 3 candidate. The same person who writes The Pressure Report on Fault Line Macro. The product exists because the existing trading journals didn't help me improve and I got tired of waiting for one that would.

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Then close the loop.

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