The journal answers the only question that compounds: which setups do YOU actually make money on? Log the trade when you take it, close it honestly, and the answers accumulate by themselves.
Fastest path: click Log trade on a live alert or a ticker page — the form prefills with the published plan: ticker, direction, entry, stop, setup, timeframe. Adjust to your actual fill and save. Stocks and options both work; options carry strike, expiry and call/put.
Log the stop. Trades without a stop still count for win rate, but they can't produce R multiples — and R is where the useful analysis lives.
Close the trade at your actual exit, including the ugly ones. The journal is private to your account; the only person a flattering journal lies to is you.
With three or more closed trades, the Your Stats panel appears: profit factor, expectancy, best and worst trades, streaks, an equity curve in R, and win-rate breakdowns by setup, by timeframe and by ticker. R stats use trades with a logged stop, and the panel tells you exactly how many qualify.
Read it monthly. The first honest finding — usually that one setup family or one timeframe carries your whole edge — pays for the logging habit forever.
Everything exports to CSV whenever you want your data elsewhere.
Not financial advice. Tools detect and deliver — decisions are yours.