Admirals MT5 trading journal: automatic, saved on your PC

Trade with Admirals on MetaTrader 5? Here is how to journal every trade automatically without giving anyone your broker login.

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Journal your Admirals MT5 trades automatically

If you trade with Admirals on MetaTrader 5 for Windows, AI Trading Journal can save every closed trade in your own journal on your PC (with an optional copy in your own Notion workspace) about every 5 minutes. It reads your Admirals terminal on your PC. It does not connect to Admirals, so you never give anyone your Admirals login.

What Admirals says about MT5

Facts below are from Admirals's own pages (https://admiralmarkets.com/trading-platforms/metatrader-5), checked on 8 October 2026. Offers change, so check the broker's site for the latest. We are not affiliated with Admirals, and nothing here is a recommendation of it.

Its MT5 page lists Trade.MT5 and Zero.MT5 account types.
It describes MT5 as the interface only: the account is opened and maintained with Admirals and you log in with your account ID, password and server.
It says deposits and withdrawals are handled in the Admirals Dashboard, not inside MT5.
It says CFD accounts are configured for hedging, while its investing offering uses netting.

What that means for your journal

Two MT5 account types invite a simple question: which one costs you less in practice? Tagging every trade with its account type, and counting net results after commission and swap, answers it with your own numbers.

Journaling tips for Admirals accounts

Use the Account property to compare Trade.MT5 and Zero.MT5 on net result after costs.
Deposits happen outside MT5, and the app records trades only, so track funding separately.
Hedging keeps positions separate; netting merges adds into one position. Know which mode your account uses.

How to set it up

Install the MT5 terminal on your Windows PC and log in to your Admirals account.
Install AI Trading Journal, click Add Account and pick your logged-in account. It finds your terminal and account.
Click Create my journal. The app imports your whole history and keeps it up to date about every 5 minutes.
Optional: click Connect Notion to keep a copy of the journal in your own Notion workspace.

What each journal entry contains

For every closed position: symbol, direction, volume, open and close time, entry and exit price, stop loss, take profit and profit or loss, plus your own setup, emotion, rating, tags, notes and screenshots, which a sync never overwrites. A daily row shows the day's result, win rate and drawdown.

A weekly review for your Admirals trades

Which symbols made or lost money this week?
Which session were most of the losses taken in?
Did lot size stay inside your plan?
How many trades would you not take again?

The weekly trading review checklist turns these into a 20-minute routine, and win rate, profit factor and expectancy explained shows how to read the numbers.

Privacy and cost compared with a cloud journal

Question	Cloud journal	AI Trading Journal
Where do your trades live?	On the vendor's servers	On your own PC; they do not pass through our servers
Does it need your broker login?	Many connect with account login and investor password, or an Expert Advisor that sends data out	No. It reads your own logged-in MT5 terminal on your PC
What if you stop paying?	Access and history can end with the subscription	Your Notion journal stays yours
Can it place trades?	Read-only access is typical, but you are trusting the vendor	It is read-only by design; it never places, changes or closes a trade

An honest note on privacy. Notion is itself a cloud service, so your trades do sit on Notion's servers, in your own workspace, under your own account and token. What AI Trading Journal removes is the extra middleman: there is no separate journal vendor holding your trades and no broker login sent to a website. No tool is risk-free, so protect your accounts, including Notion if you connect it, with a strong password and two-step verification.

Limits to know

Windows and MetaTrader 5 desktop only.
Trades sync every 5 minutes, not instantly.
One computer at a time per license.
No trade replay, backtesting or AI coach.

More: all MT5 broker notes, how it compares with TradeZella, the multi-account journal guide and the forex trading journal guide.

This page is general information, not trading or investment advice, and is not endorsed by Admirals.

Hedging for CFDs and netting for investing

Because the CFD accounts are hedging and the investing account is netting, the same terminal can show quite different histories. On a hedging account every entry is its own position with its own ticket. On a netting account, adding to a holding merges into one position, and a partial sale reduces it. The hedging versus netting guide shows the same trades in both modes. AI Trading Journal writes one row per closed position, so on a netting account you get a row when the position is fully closed rather than for each addition.

Investing is not trading: journal it differently

Question	Short-term CFD trade	Longer-term share holding
Typical holding time	Minutes to days	Weeks to years
What to record at entry	Setup, stop, target, risk	Reason for owning it, what would change your mind
What a review looks at	Win rate, average win and loss, plan followed	Whether the reason still holds; position size versus your plan
Costs that matter	Spread, commission, swap	Commission per share, currency conversion, any holding fees
Appears as a journal row	On every close	Only once the position is fully closed

If you use the investing account, do not judge it by the statistics you use for day trades. A long-term holding that has not been closed will not appear as a journal row until you sell it, so keep a separate note of open positions if you want to track them. The statistics of closed trades will not include them.

Which account type costs you less?

With separate Trade.MT5 and Zero.MT5 accounts, tag every trade with its account type and compare net results per lot after commission and swap on the same instruments. The page quotes different spread and commission structures for each, so neither the spread nor the commission alone is a fair measure. The comparison belongs in your monthly review, using at least a few dozen trades per account. See the expectancy calculator for turning each account's numbers into a per-trade figure.

Frequently asked questions

Does AI Trading Journal work with Admirals?

Yes, if your Admirals account runs on the MetaTrader 5 desktop terminal for Windows. The app reads your own terminal, so no connection to Admirals is needed.

Do I need to give my Admirals password to the app?

No. It reads the account that is already logged in to your MT5 terminal.

Can I journal a demo and a real Admirals account?

Yes. Run the setup once per account and each gets its own Notion database. Keep demo and real results separate.

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