An MT5 trading journal with no subscription

Most automatic trading journals are priced by the month. Here is how a one-time purchase journal for MetaTrader 5 works, what it costs over time, and the trade-offs.

Why so many trading journals are subscriptions

Most trading journals that sync automatically with your broker are sold as a monthly or yearly subscription, because they run a cloud service that stores your trades on their servers. That is a fair model for what they are. It also means the cost never stops, and the day you cancel, the tool and its analysis go with it.

What a one-time purchase looks like

AI Trading Journal works differently. The app runs on your own Windows PC, reads your MT5 history directly, and writes the journal into your own Notion workspace. There is no hosted trade database for us to charge you to keep alive, so it can be a single purchase: $19.99, paid once, after a 7-day free trial.

What that costs over time

To see the difference, take a hypothetical journal that charges $10 a month (your real comparison will depend on the tool you are looking at):

A tool with a lower monthly price narrows the gap but never closes it, because the one-time price does not grow.

Your data stays yours

Because the journal lives in your own Notion workspace, the trades and the notes you wrote stay there even if you stop using the app. You are not exporting from a vendor's database before a subscription ends. Your trade data goes from your MT5 terminal to your own Notion and does not pass through our servers.

What you give up

A one-time, local app has trade-offs, and you should know them before you buy:

• Windows and MetaTrader 5 only. MT4 and cTrader accounts are not supported.
• Syncs every 5 minutes, not the instant a trade closes.
• One device at a time. A license is for a single computer at a time.
• The dashboard lives on your PC. Your Notion journal is available anywhere Notion is, but the analytics dashboard is the desktop app.
• Purchases are final. That is exactly why there is a full free trial first.

Try it before you pay

Start the 7-day free trial from the activation screen, with no card required. It is the complete app, not a limited version. If it works on your account, keep it for a one-time $19.99. If it doesn't, you have paid nothing.

Wondering how it connects to Notion? Read MT5 to Notion: Expert Advisor vs a standalone app.

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