Pre-market planning, daily session review, and A/B replay backtesting in one place. No credit card, no trial, free forever.
A free trading journal built for serious futures traders -- pre-market prep, daily review, chart annotation, and A/B replay backtesting in one place.
Most traders look for a free trading journal because they know they should be tracking their trades. Then the spreadsheet gets abandoned inside a month. This one actually gets used because it doesn't just log what happened -- it walks you through the whole daily workflow: pre-market prep, live execution against a plan, post-market review, and weekend backtesting. That's why I call it a trading workflow instead of just another journal.
If you've been searching for a free day trading journal, "trading journal free", or a trading journal template you can drop into a spreadsheet, this replaces all of them. Sign in with Google, open the portal, you've got a structured journal in under 30 seconds. No setup, no template hunting, no monthly fee. Built by a full-time futures trader for traders who actually want to get better.
Set your bias, mark key levels, map scenarios, and check the economic calendar before the session starts. Walk in with a plan every single day.
Most traders lose money because they show up without a plan and react to whatever the market throws at them. The pre-market prep tool forces you to define your thesis, identify key support and resistance levels, and write out if/then scenarios before you place a single trade. When the market moves, you already know what you're looking for.
Log execution quality, wins, mistakes, and lessons while they're fresh. Track R by session and set one focus point for tomorrow. This is how edges compound.
The daily review asks the questions that actually matter: did you follow your plan? What did the market teach you today? What's the one thing you'll focus on tomorrow? Every review is saved so you can look back over weeks and months to spot patterns in your own behavior that you'd never catch in real time.
Run two versions of the same trade: Entry A vs Entry B, tight stop vs wide stop, conservative target vs runner. Same setup, different decisions, objective results.
Stop guessing whether a tighter stop or a wider target would have worked better. The A/B backtesting tool lets you replay the same setup with two different approaches side by side. Over time, you build a data-driven understanding of which decisions actually improve your expectancy instead of relying on gut feeling.
Upload a screenshot and draw on it directly. Lines, arrows, labels. Saved with your review so you never lose context on what you saw and why you acted.
Charts tell the story of a trade better than words ever could. The built-in annotation tool lets you mark entries, exits, key levels, and observations directly on your chart screenshots. Every annotation is tied to your daily review, so when you revisit a session weeks later, you see exactly what was on your screen and what you were thinking.
A structured routine you can follow every market day. Prep before, review after, backtest on weekends.
Before the session opens, define your directional bias, mark key levels from overnight activity, and map out your if/then scenarios. Check the economic calendar for scheduled events that could move price. This takes 10-15 minutes and completely changes how you approach the first hour.
With your prep visible, you trade with structure instead of impulse. You already know which levels matter and what setups you're waiting for. When the session ends, you have a clear record of what you planned versus what actually happened.
Log your results, annotate your charts, and answer the review questions: what worked, what didn't, and what you'll focus on tomorrow. Attach screenshots so you can revisit the exact context of each decision. Consistency here is what separates traders who plateau from traders who improve.
Use the A/B replay backtesting tool to test variations of your setups. Compare different entries, stop placements, and targets side by side using historical data. After a few weeks, you'll have real data on which decisions improve your expectancy and which ones cost you money.
No catch. The pre-market prep tool, daily review, chart annotation, and A/B replay backtesting are all completely free with no time limits, no trial period, and no credit card required. You sign in with Google and start using it immediately. We built these tools for our mentorship students and decided to make them available to every trader because better-prepared traders make better markets.
A/B replay backtesting lets you take a single trade setup and test two different versions of it side by side. For example, you might replay a failed breakout and compare what would have happened with your original entry versus a pullback entry, or test a 2R target against a 3R target on the same setup. Instead of guessing which approach is better, you build a record of objective outcomes over dozens of comparisons.
No. The pre-market prep, daily review, chart annotation, and A/B backtesting tools are available to anyone regardless of whether you're in the mentorship program. Mentorship students get additional features like coach messaging, strategy documentation, and performance statistics, but the core workflow tools on this page are free for all traders.
The tools are market-agnostic. While we built them with index futures traders in mind (ES, NQ, YM, RTY), the pre-market prep and daily review workflow applies to any market: forex, equities, crypto, commodities. If you trade it, you can prep for it and review it here. The A/B backtesting tool works with any instrument since you manually enter the trade parameters.
Most trading journals only track what already happened. This tool starts before the market opens with pre-market prep, so you're documenting your plan alongside your results. The daily review is structured around improvement rather than just logging P&L. And the A/B backtesting tool adds a forward-looking dimension that traditional journals don't offer: testing how different decisions would change your outcomes on setups you've already seen.
Yes. The Student Portal is a web app that works in any modern browser on desktop, tablet, or phone. You can do your pre-market prep on your laptop and review your session from your phone on the commute home. Your data syncs across devices since it's tied to your Google account.
The free tools give you the workflow. The mentorship gives you someone who watches your trades, calls out your mistakes, and keeps you accountable every single day.