A Free Forex Trading Journal
Log every trade at no cost, sync MetaTrader 4 and 5 automatically, and find out what actually works for you. Win rate, profit factor, expectancy, R-multiple, an equity curve and a P&L calendar, all computed from your own history.
No card needed. Educational tools only. Not investment advice.
What costs nothing
Logging Is Free. The Analysis Is The Upgrade.
Your trades are yours from day one, and you can take them with you whenever you like. We charge for what the numbers tell you, not for the right to write them down.
Free with any account
- Log unlimited trades by hand
- Edit, tag and review every entry
- Open positions and full trade log
- Export everything as CSV
- Trading calculators
With a membership
- MetaTrader 4 and 5 auto-sync
- Win rate, profit factor, expectancy, R-multiple
- Equity curve, drawdown and streaks
- P&L calendar in your timezone
- PDF performance reports
- Broker statement import
What you get
Everything A Serious Journal Needs
Free to log, always
Record instrument, direction, entry and exit, size, stop, target, risk and fees, plus your setup, emotions and notes. Editing, deleting and CSV export are free too. Most journals charge 20 to 30 dollars a month for this.
MetaTrader 4 and 5 auto-sync
Install a small read-only add-on once and your trades log themselves every minute. Open positions show live, closed ones arrive with entry, exit, size, commission and swap already filled in.
The metrics that matter
Win rate, profit factor, expectancy, average R-multiple, net P&L and fees, computed automatically from your own history rather than typed into a spreadsheet.
Equity curve and drawdown
Watch cumulative P&L build, see your worst drawdown and your longest winning and losing streaks, and feel your position sizing in the shape of the curve.
P&L calendar
A month grid where every day is coloured by its net result, in your own timezone, with weekly totals down the side. The fastest way to spot the days that cost you money.
Find your edge
Break results down by pair, session, setup, day of week, direction and tag, and see the R-multiple distribution of your outcomes as a histogram.
PDF and CSV reports
Export a formatted performance report with your equity curve and breakdowns, ready to send to a prop firm, or take the raw rows as CSV whenever you want them.
Statement import
Prefer not to install anything? Upload the report or CSV MetaTrader exports. We detect the format, fold MT5 deals into positions and skip anything already imported.
Wired into the community
Log a trade straight from any community trade idea, then see your personal win rate following each trader. No standalone journal can tell you that, and no paid tips group can either.
Several accounts, separately
Keep a live account, a demo and a prop challenge apart, each with its own starting balance, currency and equity curve, and switch between them anywhere in the journal.
Risk guardrails
A daily loss limit, a trade-count ceiling and per-trade risk, measured against your account balance so an ordinary red day does not turn into a bad one.
Private by design
Your journal is yours alone. Every entry is scoped to your account, never shown publicly or to other members, and never browsable by staff.
The numbers
What Each Metric Actually Means
Every journal quotes these. Few explain them, and a metric you cannot interpret is just decoration.
- Win rate
- The share of your closed trades that made money. Useful, but on its own it says very little: a 30% win rate is excellent if your winners are four times your losers, and a 70% win rate can still lose money.
- Profit factor
- Gross profit divided by gross loss. Above 1.0 means you made money over the period. Around 1.5 is a solid edge, and anything past 3.0 usually means the sample is too small to trust yet.
- Expectancy
- What you have averaged per trade, wins and losses together. It answers the only question that matters before your next trade: what is this setup worth, on average, each time I take it?
- R-multiple
- Your result measured in units of the risk you took. Risk 50 dollars to make 100 and that is +2R. It makes trades comparable across position sizes and instruments, which raw profit never does.
- Maximum drawdown
- The largest peak-to-trough fall in your account. Prop firms care about this more than profit, because it is the number that tells them how much pain your method puts you through.
- Trading session
- Which window the trade was opened in: Sydney, Tokyo, London or New York. Bucketed automatically from the entry time, so you can see whether you are actually good at the hours you trade.
Working out risk before you enter? Use the position size calculator, then log the trade and let the journal measure the R-multiple for you.
How it works
From Logged Trade To Real Edge
Connect or log
Sync MetaTrader 4 or 5 once and your trades arrive on their own, or add them by hand in seconds from any screen.
Review your analytics
Win rate, expectancy, the equity curve, the calendar and every breakdown update as soon as a trade closes.
Cut what does not pay
Find the pairs, sessions and setups that make money, and stop taking the ones that do not.
FAQ
Trading Journal Questions
Is the trading journal really free?
Yes. Logging trades, editing them and exporting your history as CSV are free with any FXfolder account, and there is no card required to start. A membership unlocks the analysis on top: win rate, profit factor, expectancy, R-multiple, the equity curve, the P&L calendar, PDF reports, statement import and MetaTrader auto-sync.
What is a trading journal?
A trading journal is a private log of every trade you take, including entry, exit, size, risk and notes, that turns your history into analytics like win rate, profit factor, expectancy and R-multiple, so you can find what works and repeat it. A spreadsheet is a trading journal too, it just cannot compute any of that for you or sync itself from your broker.
Can I connect my MT4 or MT5 account?
Yes. Members can install the FXfolder Expert Advisor, a small read-only add-on for MetaTrader 4 or 5, and their trades sync automatically every minute. It never places, changes or closes a trade, it only reads your history. If you would rather not install anything, you can upload your MetaTrader report or CSV instead.
Can I download a report of my trading?
Yes. Members can export a formatted PDF performance report with the summary figures, equity curve, R-multiple distribution, breakdowns by pair, session and setup, a P&L calendar and the trade list. It is the report to send to a prop firm. Your raw trades are also exportable as CSV, free on any account.
How many trades can I store?
A free account holds up to 1,000 trades across one journal account. A membership raises that to 30,000 trades across five accounts, which covers a hundred trades a day for most of a year. Reading, editing, deleting and exporting are never blocked, whatever your usage.
Is my journal private?
Yes, completely. Every entry is scoped to your own account. Journals are never shown publicly, never shared with other members, and there is no admin screen that browses them.
Start Journaling Your Trades Today
Logging is free, and it stays free. A membership adds the analysis on top, alongside live trade ideas and a transparent trader leaderboard.
No card needed · Educational tools only. Not investment advice.