TradesViz vs the Field
TradesViz vs Other Popular Trading Journals
TradesViz is fully free for stock trading. For everything else (options, futures, forex, prop firms, multi-broker, multi-currency) the pricing is the lowest in the market for the feature shape we ship. There is no honest reason to pay another journal for less.
TL;DR
If you trade stocks, TradesViz is free. Not a trial, not a "10 trades and done" tier, actually free. For options, futures, forex, prop firms or multi-broker setups, our paid plans are the lowest priced in the market for what you get, and we ship features no other journal does (multi-simulator, options chain simulator, global multi-asset sim, trade replay, live prop-firm rule tracking). The comparison below is on capabilities. The pricing argument is on the pricing page.
TradesViz vs the rest of the field
We are not naming names here, on purpose. Most of these capabilities are easy to verify on any competitor’s pricing or features page. The point is the field as a whole, not any single product.
| Capability | TradesViz | Other Popular Trading Journals |
|---|---|---|
| Brokers supported (auto-sync + CSV) | 200+ brokers and platforms across US, EU, UK, IN and AU. | Most popular journals support 20 to 40, mostly US-based. |
| Multi-leg options strategy modeling | Verticals, condors, butterflies, calendars, ratios and customs, all auto-recognized. | Often flat positions only, or each leg shown as a separate trade. |
| Options chain simulator | Built in, with real historical chains and greeks. | Not offered by any of the popular competitors at the time of writing. |
| Multi-simulator (run several sims in parallel) | Yes. TradesViz was the first journal to ship this. | Single sim if any. |
| Global multi-asset sim (stocks + futures + forex + options) | Yes. TradesViz was the first journal to ship this. | Usually one asset class only. |
| Trade replay on the original tape | Second-by-second, with your real fills overlaid. | Either not supported, or sold as a separate paid product. |
| Prop-firm rule enforcement (live) | Daily loss, max drawdown (trailing EOD, intraday, static, lock), profit target and consistency, all live. | Most popular journals show only daily P&L, not the rule status. |
| Futures contract specs (tick value, point value, micros) | Built in for hundreds of contracts. | Hand-configured per account on most competitors. |
| Forex broker coverage (MT4 / MT5 / cTrader / proprietary) | Native imports for all of them, normalized to your base currency. | The popular US-focused journals barely support MT5 at all. |
| Multi-currency consolidation | Auto-converted to your base currency at trade time. | Often single-currency, or you do the math yourself. |
| AI Coach (with deterministic numbers) | AI cites real analytics from your data, not estimates. | AI is usually a chat layer that can guess wrong on numbers. |
| Number of analytics out of the box | 600+ metrics, custom dashboards, custom reports. | Most competitors ship 50 to 150 metrics on a fixed dashboard. |
| Public sharing and review portfolios | Per-trade, per-strategy and public dashboards, with optional anonymization. | Often only blanket account-level sharing. |
| Country / tax-region coverage | US, UK, EU, IN, AU with broker-specific quirks handled. | Most popular journals are heavily US-skewed. |
| Pricing model | Flat tiers, no per-trade caps, no per-broker upcharges. | Some popular competitors meter trades or lock brokers behind tiers. |
Why TradesViz, plainly
Free for stocks. Not a trial. Not a tease.
If you trade stocks, TradesViz is free. The full journal, full analytics, full dashboards, real broker imports. No other popular trading journal does this. Paying any of them just to journal your stock trades is paying for something we give away. If you ever add options, futures, forex or prop firms later, the upgrade is the lowest priced in the market for the feature set.
No one-time "lifetime" fee, on purpose
A one-time fee for a journal that has to host your data, run imports against constantly-changing broker APIs, ship new features, and keep the lights on for years is not sustainable. The companies that sell it either disappear, downgrade your account, or quietly stop shipping. We have seen it happen in this space more than once. Recurring pricing is the only honest way to fund a product that is supposed to be here in 5 or 10+ years.
Lowest pricing in the market for what you actually get
Compare the pricing page side by side with any popular journal and put the feature lists next to each other. 200+ brokers, options spreads, futures specs, multi-asset simulators, replay, prop-firm rule tracking, AI Coach, 600+ analytics, custom dashboards. There is no competitor matching that feature shape at our price point. We do not meter trades and we do not charge extra per broker.
Even if your needs are simple, TradesViz still wins (and it is free)
If all you trade today is stock longs on one US broker, you are on the free plan. You still get a faster import, a cleaner dashboard, and real human support that answers in hours, not days. Usability and support are not a "harder cases only" feature. They are why traders who started simple stay with us.
A journal that grows with you
Trading is not a one-time fling. Six months from now you might add options. A year from now you might try a prop firm, or a non-US broker, or a futures contract, or a strategy that needs replay to debug. TradesViz already has all of that built in, so you do not have to migrate your history later. Proof we keep shipping: read our blog posts going back to 2019. Same product, continuously expanding, same team behind it.
Why we are not naming names
Two reasons. First, every competitor in this space ships and changes features regularly, so anything we publish today can be out of date by next quarter. We would rather compare on the capability shape of the field than on a snapshot of any one product. Second, calling out competitors by name turns an honest comparison into marketing theater. We have been around long enough to know who the popular journals are. So have you.
If you want a head-to-head feature check before you switch, the easiest path is to start a free TradesViz trial alongside whichever journal you are currently using. The differences show up in the first import.
What the popular journals actually share
Most of the heavily-advertised trading journals from the last few years share a similar shape. Decent onboarding video, a clean stock-trading dashboard, basic CSV imports for the top 20 to 40 US brokers, a short list of metrics, and a polished marketing site. They charge a monthly fee for that. We give the same scope away on our free stock plan, and ours imports more brokers and ships more analytics on top.
Where the popular journals really fall short is the same place every time: options spreads collapsed into individual legs, futures contract specs hand-configured per account, no replay, no simulator, US-only broker focus, no live prop-firm rule tracking, and analytics that look great on the demo account but flatten on a real multi-broker, multi-asset account.
TradesViz started in the messy end of the pool. Multi-broker, multi-asset, options spreads, futures contract specs, prop-firm rules, the works. That is why the comparison shape above looks the way it does, and that is why our paid plans hold up against any popular journal at a fraction of the price.
How to actually pick a trading journal
Forget the leaderboards. If you trade stocks, sign up for the free TradesViz plan, connect your broker and you are done. There is no decision to make. If you trade options, futures, forex or at a prop firm, open both candidates, connect your real broker, import a real month of your real trades, and look at three things: did the import work without manual cleanup, do the spread and partial-fill numbers tie out to what your broker shows, and can you answer one question about your own trading that you could not answer before. If the answer to all three is yes, you have the right journal. If not, switch.
Why we built TradesViz instead of being one of those other journals
A note from PK, Founder of TradesViz
When I started TradesViz, the popular trading journals at the time were already in market. We did not try to out-polish them. We started where they had given up: options spreads modeled correctly, futures contract specs built in, multi-broker imports, replay and simulators inside the same product, and prop-firm rules treated as a first-class feature instead of a footnote.
A lot of the things in the table above were originally built because a real TradesViz user hit a wall on a different journal and asked us if we could do it. The multi-simulator, the global multi-asset sim, the options chain simulator, the prop-firm Challenge Mode, all of those started as a feature request from a trader who was about to give up. We are very deliberately not naming the other journals here. If you have shopped around at all, you already know the field. Try a real month of your trades in TradesViz and the comparison answers itself.
- PK, Founder of TradesViz
FAQ
Why is TradesViz not naming the other trading journals directly?
Because the moment we name a competitor, the page becomes marketing instead of a fair comparison. Every popular journal ships changes regularly, so anything we publish today can be out of date by next quarter. We compare on the shape of the field instead. If you have shopped around for a journal at all, you already know who the popular options are.
How does TradesViz compare to the most popular trading journal you see advertised?
For stock trading, TradesViz is free and the others are paid. That is the comparison. For options spreads, futures contracts, multiple brokers, non-US brokers, or prop-firm rule tracking, the gap widens further because most popular journals do not ship those features at all, or ship them as a thin add-on. Try a free TradesViz account on your own data and see it in one session.
Is TradesViz really free for stock trading?
Yes. The free plan covers stock journaling end to end: broker imports, full analytics, dashboards, tagging, notes, reports. Not a 14-day trial. Not a 10-trade tease. Free, ongoing, for stock traders. The paid plans add options, futures, forex, prop-firm, simulators, replay and AI Coach when you need them.
Does TradesViz import from competitor trading journals?
Yes. We support direct imports from the popular spreadsheet templates and from CSV exports of the most-used trading journals. Bring your trade history with you.
Is TradesViz cheaper than the other popular trading journals?
For stocks, TradesViz is free, so cheaper is the wrong word. For options, futures, forex and prop-firm tracking, our paid plans are the lowest priced in the market for the feature set we ship, with no per-trade meters and no per-broker upcharges. Compare the pricing pages directly against the feature list.
Free for stocks. Lowest priced for everything else. No catch.
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TradesViz is designed to be used by traders just starting out all the way to professional traders. The level of customizability and versatility is unmatched by any similar platform.
Replay, Simulate and Backtest Trades
You can simulate Stocks, forex, futures and even options on TradesViz. On top of this, you can even replay your trade second-by-second and backtest options using options executions simulator.
Trade Plans & Mistakes Analysis
Add trade plans to each trade and trading day to see what rules you break and how they affect your trading. Zoom in on your trading behaviour from a data-driven perspective.
Charting customizability
Add multiple static image charts, setup custom TradingView charts with your executions, MFE/MAE targets and more automatically plotted for all your imported trades!
Unlimited Reports and Analytics with AI
Gone are the days of fixed charts you cannot Customize. With AI Q&A, you can now ask any question about your data and get charts, tables and even add them as custom widgets to your dashboard!
Dedicated Note Taking + AI
Write notes, tag your notes, search your notes and even ask the AI to generate trade summaries as notes for your trades. TradesViz has a dedicated note tab for all notes management.
Advanced Statistics
MFE/MAE, R/R ratios, Best/EOD Exit, Multi-Timeframe exit, Market-TA-Comparison, Running PnL analytics, Options greeks analysis and more - all of these on top of existing PnL charts make ~600+ charts on TradesViz.
Not just another journal. We pushed the boundaries of journaling.
With a team of data scientists, researchers and veteran traders TradesViz is built with a singular focus of improving trading performance in a data-driven way.
160+ Blog Posts of In-depth Journaling Guides + Always-on Support
We didn't skip the most important part out: Education. We update and launch new educational blog posts every few weeks + Post plenty of tips, tricks, trading news/info and journaling knowledge on our Twitter/X feed!
Dashboard Overview
Trade Management
Group Apply
Trade Explore Tab
Day Explore Tab
Equity Curve & Account Balance
Calendar Tab
Custom Dashboard & AI Widgets
Trades Table
Filters & Toggles
Trade/Day Plans & Analysis
Artificial Intelligence Q&A and Custom Widgets
How to setup Interactive Brokers (IBKR) Flex Query for Auto-sync
Not just a trading journal -
A Trading Partner for all markets!
TradesViz is a unified trading analysis platform that offers not just the world's best trade journaling capabilities, but also other tools that are tightly integrated to provide a 360 degree support (via tools) to traders looking forward to mastering the market.
- Trading Simulator & Multi-Chart Simulator
- Options Flow & Screener
- Technical Analysis Backtester
- Fundamental Analysis/SEC13F Visualization
- Seasonality Analysis
- Side-by-Side Strategy Comparison
Value worth of $300+ per month is available to all traders of TradesViz at less than 1/10th the cost.
Highest value per dollar on the market
At TradesViz we focus on value and utility provided to traders. That's why we're still #1 when it comes to the value and features offered on an online trading journal.
Our guarantee: You will not find a better, more versatile, constantly up-to-date trading journal even at 2x or 3x our price. View Full Pricing.
Basic
For beginner traders to get started with journaling.
- Import 3000 executions/ month
- 50+ Performance Visualizations
- Basic auto-generated charts
- All basic trade management features and trade charts
Pro
All asset type import + 100s of charts & powerful grid features.
- Unlimited imports + All asset type support
- 400+ Performance Visualizations
- Multiple auto-generated + Interactive stock charts
- Multiple trading accounts
- Artificial Intelligence Question & Answer
- Artificial Intelligence Trade Summary
Platinum
All-in-one journaling, simulation and advanced analysis platform.
- Every feature in Pro
- Real-time Screener
- Unlimited Custom Dashboards
- Advanced Options flow analysis + Options flow scanner + Options Payoff Charts
- Multi-Timeframe/EOD/Best Exit Analysis charts
- Trading Simulator (Stock + Options + Futures + Forex + Prop Firm)
- Pivot/Grid Charting (Most powerful analytics feature online)
- Trade/Day Plans & Checklist analysis
- Backtesting (70+ Indicators/Any Symbol)
- Dividend Tracker
What Trading Experts Say
TradesViz is the only trading journal in the world to be recognized internationallyby the popular Benzinga FinTech Awards Competition as a
Finalist in Best Data Analysis tool and Best Portfolio Tracker categories!
TradesViz is the most useful trading journal on the market for finding and quantifying your edge. An all in one trading journal tool for traders.
Trader, Author, and founder of NewTraderU.com
PK and the whole team at TradesViz.com have put together an outstanding product with exceptional features. PK provides the most excellent support in the chat help. And if something really isn't working quite right or as expected, they get busy to make it better. I originally signed up for TradesViz to have the simulator function which also gave me the statistical analysis I could use to improve my trading. I had been using a simulator which had almost no analysis. When TradesViz added the simulator function I gave it a try. At first I had a hard time making it work, but with patient explanation from PK and with some tweaking on functionality from the coders on the backend, they have delivered a super trading simulator. The trade analysis part of TradesViz is second to none. I've gained the insight into my trading weaknesses and strengths to be able to trade much better in my live account. This is the service you need!
I definitely recommend Tradesviz especially for new traders the way it tracks your stats is no short of amazing especially for me personally by best exit and and of the stats that tell you how long you usually are in drawdown and you are usually in profit. If you want to build confidence in your strategy and edge this journal is the way to go for sure!
TradesViz has made a huge difference in my trading and has positively impacted my trading for the better in psychology and profit.
I use it DAILY and have noticed the vast improvements being made, not only in profit but also in my mental approach to trading.
This is a must-have tool and is more important than any indicator you could ever use.
I've subscribed, at different times, to various reporting programs, and trialed several others.
Yours is night and day over them all. I particularly appreciate the degree of available customization and your quick, ever-patient response to support requests.
I have a small trading account. Thank you for offering such a sophisticated program at an affordable price.
TradesViz is a true leader in Trade Journaling Software. They offer extensive statistical data at an amazing price that almost seems too good to be true. You have access to an amazing support team that seems to be active at all hours of the day. My support agent helped me through a complex import issue and had it solved within 24 hours. I can't tell you how blown away I am with their software and their service. I'm more than happy with my experience and so excited to see what new features they bring to the table as they continue to grow their business. If you're on the fence, I encourage you to jump right over and take it for a spin with their risk-free trial. Thanks to all the TradesViz team members who continue to make my Trade Journaling efficient and effective.
Day Trader
GREAT PRODUCT AND EVEN BETTER CUSTOMER SUPPORT!
I have been using TradesViz for a few months and it is a fantastic tool. Prior to subscribing, I was spending hours on xls trying different tables and layouts and only getting frustrated (or overcomplicating things!). Now I have everything in one place (I have multiple trading accounts), and I have probably only explored 10% of the tools and data analytics!
BUT, what has really impressed me is the support: I have NEVER in the last 10 years had such instant, professional support from a company at (almost) anytime of the day or night!
Clearly this is a team that is passionate about their product and that will always translates into innovation and better experience & value to the customer.
Well done to the team!!
After only a short time of using TradesViz, I can confirm that this platform is exactly what I have been looking for. It takes the chore out of journaling – the number of stats, data, and information available on my trades is a complete game-changer. The importing process via MT4 file is extremely easy and the automated charts with entries are amazing. The whole process is extremely easy and helps to keep me accountable for my trading by having a professional system to manage my business. The platform is very comprehensive and takes a bit of time to get used to, but they have many videos on their YouTube to help with this as well as their support team.
Their support is exemplary and gets back to all my queries in well under 30 minutes with comprehensive answers and solutions to my questions.
This platform is absolutely essential for any trader and I would highly recommend it to any of my trader friends looking for a journal. If you don’t have this platform, you are seriously missing a trick here…
Thanks, PK from TradesViz for being extremely helpful and patient in resolving my syncing issue. Certainly one of the best online support I have ever experienced. Even though it took a while for me to get my settings right, I never felt rushed...I appreciate that. Hope to stay with you guys for a long time. Certainly would like to learn how to utilize most of the features on TradeViz.
In my opinion, the TradesViz platform is truly the Ferrari of journaling software available today. Once you are under the hood, you begin to realize that in fact what sets it so far apart is all the advanced analysis at your fingertips. Such as the ability to combine multiple portfolios, live charting, and much more. Their support is world-class, in my case personally, I needed integration with Trend Spider’s backtesting engine. What I imagined might take weeks was literally accomplished overnight. Factor in rock bottom prices and you have all you need for whatever you're searching for. Newer traders will find that one of the most basic recipes for success is meticulous record keeping, simply observing your account profit and loss go up, or just down as the case may be, is the first step on the road to ruin if your serious about trading.
Trader
I'm writing this testimonial as appreciation for this surprisingly pleasant
conversation.
Upon my initial support request, TradesViz's support was impressively swift. A response appeared every single time as soon as I closed my email tab. Not only did I receive incredibly helpful information about features I wasn't aware of, but the team was also genuinely enthusiastic about discussing my feature requests and ideas about the industry. Truly awesome people!
In terms of raw analytics, comparison, and filtering capabilities, there is no match for TradesViz. I also don't know of any other trading journals that offer so much for the price, their free version has pretty much everything you would need if you trade stocks and offer so many of the paid features that are on other websites for free. They have templates for almost every broker and if it's not there, their support team is only 1 email or message away and will work with you to include your broker on their platform. By far the best support I have gotten from any trading journal as they are open to feedback and feature requests and are very active on their chat for any questions. A trading journal built by traders, for traders.
Professional Futures Day Trader
I wish I had TradesViz when I started to trade ten years ago. I had to learn the hard way. It provides everything you need to maximize your wins and minimize your losses.
There’s a learning curve but once you get past that your trading will surely be taken to the next level.
Founder of ChartLearning.com
As a full-time trader, the first pivot point in my trading results came after I started to learn from Mark Minervini - this is when I stopped losing $$$. The second pivot point came after I started to analyze my results - this is when I started to be consistently profitable $$$.
I love that TradesViz works for Options, Stocks, Crypto! It has automated and manual uploads. It has all the important metrics and analysis that you will need and it is fully customizable.
I have tried pretty much most of the products out there, and TradesViz wins by a mile - highly recommend it! Thanks to PK and the team!
Thanks, @MightySoldiers for turning me on to @tradesviz. I'm loving the customized dashboard. The level of detail and ability to really dig deep on metrics is unparalleled. This tool has helped me so much in defining my trading strategy and where my edge is.
Trader
I was looking for a solution to journal my trades on multiple platforms to keep track of my PNL. I stumbled upon TradesViz and I have nothing but positive to say about their service. Not only does their product make it so easy to see how you are doing on your trades with the various graphs and filtering options, getting your account synced is super intuitive. Best of all their customer service is top-notch. Every time I have asked a question, they have responded within a few hours with a solution, and sometimes that involved programming custom solutions for me to make my life easier. It's a no-brainer for me to pay for the yearly service. Do it, you won't regret it.
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