Writing by hand slows you down in a good way, and a printed trading journal page on the desk is hard to ignore. What paper cannot do is add up a month of trades, or tell you which setup is paying for the others.
Free, no card. Plus a bonus: the full version for your first 30 days.
“Free” is TradeRecall's free journal, which does not expire; “full” is the full version, yours for the first 30 days.
| Feature | TradeRecall | Notebook or printed PDF |
|---|---|---|
| Recording | ||
| Prices and times of your fills | Free: from your platform's file. Full: live | Copied from the platform by hand |
| Stop and target moves | Full: each one, with time and price, from Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader, Quantower, MetaTrader and cTrader | If you write them down at the time |
| The chart | Full: taken by itself on your chart in the platform at every fill and every stop or target move; on NinjaTrader, Quantower, MetaTrader and cTrader also at every order placed or cancelled | A sketch, or a printout |
| Your thoughts during the trade | Full: said out loud with one key combination, kept in the trade | Written, if your hands are free |
| Reading it back | ||
| Win rate and expectancy by setup | Free, per setup and per mistake | Counted by hand |
| Missed trades | Full: say the setup you pass on; confirmed ones are in one report | A line in the margin |
| Keeping it safe | Free: export and backup | One copy, wherever the notebook is |
If paper helps you think, keep it, for the plan before the open and the lessons after the close. Let a free journal keep the trades themselves: TradeRecall imports the file your platform exports, keeps each account apart and gives win rate and expectancy per setup, without a calculator. Free trading journal
Yes, in the full version. One key combination (⌥⌘J on a Mac, Win+Shift+J on Windows) starts and stops a voice note, even while your platform is in front; it goes into the trade you are in, and it is turned into text on your computer, in about a hundred languages. Voice trading journal
Yes. Entering trades and notes by hand is part of the free journal and stays free.
It is on your computer, like a notebook in your drawer. Nothing from it goes to anyone else's servers.
The free journal stays as it is. The live part (fills as they happen, voice, tags from your voice notes and chart pictures) waits until you buy it: $300 once, or $33 a month 12 times, and then it is yours for good.
This page was checked on 27 October 2026. If something on it is wrong, tell us at support at traderecall.app and we will fix it.
TradeRecall is a trading journal for futures, forex and CFD traders that records every fill live from Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader, Quantower, MetaTrader and cTrader, puts what you say during a trade on that trade, and keeps everything on your computer.
