Notes and screenshots
A note on a trade, a note for a whole trading day, and a screenshot per trade, all part of the free plan.
By NKTrades
Beyond the numbers, you'll often want to capture what you thought and saw. The journal has two kinds of notes and a screenshot per trade for that, and all of them are part of the free plan.
Trade note
Open a trade and go to the Trade note tab. Here you write why you took the trade, whether you followed your rules, and which emotions or chart patterns played a part. The note saves automatically as you type.
Daily note
In the same place you can switch to Daily note: a note for the whole trading day instead of a single trade, covering how the day went, what went well and what you'll take away. You'll find the same daily note through the note button in Trading → Day View on that day, because both places write to the same note.
A day in the daily note is the same calendar day as in Day View: the day on which your first trade of that day was opened.
Screenshots
A trade's detail page has a card for a Screenshot: a PNG, JPEG or WebP up to 5 MB, for example of your chart at the moment of the trade. Click to upload; you can replace or remove it later. Without a screenshot the card just shows an empty spot. That's not an error.
Why this matters
A journal with only numbers doesn't tell you why a trade went well or badly. A note or screenshot on a trade helps you later, when you look back in Trade View or Day View, to recognise the pattern your numbers alone don't show.
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