Concepts, calculations, and definitions for active traders.
Short, direct guides to the metrics, methods, and terminology that show up in every serious trading journal. Plain English. Citable definitions. Worked examples for crypto perps, equities, and futures.
What is a trading journal?
The structured record of every trade you place — entry, exit, size, rationale, and reflection. Why journaling is the single biggest separator between profitable and unprofitable retail traders.
Read the full guide → Guide · 10 min readHow to keep a trading journal for crypto.
The 8 fields a crypto journal must capture, how to handle exchange-specific quirks (Binance partial fills, Bitunix funding-in-fees, Hyperliquid wallet auth), and the weekly review cadence that actually surfaces patterns.
Read the full guide → Concept · 9 min readAI Coach: what it actually does.
The four useful capabilities, the three useless claims to ignore, and how Trade Journal AI's coach is built on Anthropic's Claude Sonnet with three cost models (fair-use cap, Unlimited add-on, BYOK).
Read the full guide → Calculation · 7 min readR-multiple explained.
How to express trade outcomes as a multiple of the amount risked. The metric that normalizes performance across position size, leverage, and asset class.
Read the full guide → Framework · 10 min readA+/A/B/C setup grading.
Lance Breitstein's setup-grading framework — A+ gets full size, A/B/C get progressively smaller allocations. How to define your grades from your own data, recalibrate over time, and let the AI Coach check whether your grading is honest.
Read the full guide → Workflow · 8 min readTradingView Pine Scripts for trade logging.
How to use Pine Scripts for consistent chart annotations, webhook-fired trade rows into your journal, and pinned daily-rule reminders. Three ready-to-paste starter scripts and the auto-journaling alert setup.
Read the full guide → Workflow · 8 min readReconciling trades across brokers.
If you trade on more than one exchange, your journal needs dedupe, hedge tagging, USD normalization, and per-exchange funding tracking. The four-step workflow and a worked example.
Read the full guide → Workflow · 7 min readJournaling trades on mobile.
Mobile is for capture; desktop is for review. The four use cases where mobile beats desktop (intent capture, post-trade voice memo, photo capture, end-of-day check-ins) and the realistic daily workflow.
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