Trading journal resources: blog, guides, templates and calculators
Articles on trading habits, guides to MetaTrader 5 and Notion, free journal templates and free calculators, grouped by what you want to do.
Everything we have written for traders who keep a journal, in one place. Pages are grouped by what you are trying to do: read about the habits, learn how a part of MetaTrader 5 works, copy a template, or run a number through a calculator. All of it is free to read and use, with no sign-up.
Blog: habits, psychology and routines
These articles are about behaviour more than software: why a journal is worth keeping, how overtrading and tilt show up in the numbers, and what a sensible day looks like. Each one ends with something you can test on your own trades.
- MT5 open time vs close time. Which date a trade should count on.
- MT5 hedged positions and margin. What is charged when you lock a position.
- MT5 dividend and adjustment rows. Credits you did not trade.
- MT5 FIFO rule explained. Why the oldest position can close first.
- MT5 history export problems in Excel. Fix text numbers, dates and extra rows.
- MT5 points vs pips explained. Digits, pipettes and why the units get mixed up.
- MT5 leverage and margin requirement. What leverage changes and what it does not.
- MT5 Trade tab explained. Columns, summary line and floating profit.
- MT5 history: sort, filter and copy. Sort the History tab and move rows into a sheet.
- MT5 symbol suffixes explained. Why one market has several broker names.
- MT5 history period and custom date range. Why trades seem missing and how to choose the period.
- MT5 triple swap explained. Why one rollover charges three days of swap.
- MT5 Strategy Tester vs live history. Why backtest and live results differ.
- MT5 lot step and minimum volume. Why volume is rejected and how to round.
- MT5 daylight saving and journal dates. How server clock changes shift your dates.
- MT5 Close By explained. How a close-by shows in the history and how to tag the pair.
- MT5 position reversal on netting accounts. One order that closes and flips a position.
- MT5 account types and your history. Cost models behind Standard, Raw and cent accounts.
- MT5 history columns explained. Positions, Orders and Deals, column by column.
- MT5 scaling in and out in history. Adding to and reducing positions on each account type.
- MT5 demo vs live account journal. Keep the records apart and compare behaviour, not profit.
- MT5 copy trading and signals in history. What copied trades look like and how to tag them.
- MT5 on a VPS and your journal. Where the history lives and how to tag automated trades.
- Journal central bank minutes days. A three-part note and a tag.
- Journal your return after a trading break. A return plan, a tag and a review.
- MT5 order expiration and time in force. Good till cancelled, day and specified expiry, and how expired orders appear.
- MT5 stop loss and take profit changes in history. What the history keeps and how to record the full story.
- Journal month-end trading days. A three-part note, one tag and a review.
- Friday close trading routine. A ten-minute checklist before the weekend.
- MT5 one-click trading explained. What it changes in your records and how to tag it.
- Journal Fed minutes days. A three-line plan, one tag and a behaviour-first review.
- Journal surprise news days. A standing rule, a four-line capture and a review.
- Journal weekend gaps and the Monday open. A Friday note, a Monday note and two tags.
- MT5 execution modes and filling policies. What each mode and filling type means.
- MT5 Experts tab vs Journal tab. What each log shows and where the files are.
- MT5 symbol specification explained. Every key field of the Specification window and a checklist to keep.
- MT5 profit currency vs account currency. Why converted profit shifts, with three examples.
- MT5 history rows that are not trades. Charge, correction, dividend rows and how to filter them.
- Journal retail sales and jobless claims days. A routine for two mid-sized US releases.
- Journal PMI and ISM days. A one-line plan, one tag and a behaviour-first review.
- US30, NAS100, GER30 hours in South Africa. US and German cash opens in SAST and the transition-week overlap.
- Best time to trade USD/JPY in South Africa. Tokyo, London and New York windows in SAST.
- How to open trade history in MT5. Toolbox, History tab, period and views, step by step.
- Journal GDP and PCE days. A light routine for the quieter US releases.
- Journal holiday and thin-market days. Plan, tag and compare quiet days.
- How MT5 calculates profit. The formula behind the Profit column, with examples.
- MT5 recovery factor. Net profit compared with the largest drawdown, with a worked example.
- MT5 expected payoff. The average result of one trade: formula, example and traps.
- MT5 Sharpe ratio. What it measures, why tools disagree and what to use beside it.
- MT5 trade history on your phone. Where history lives in the mobile app and how to read it.
- MT5 close all positions in history. What a bulk close looks like afterwards.
- MT5 spread and slippage. The costs the history does not list.
- Equity vs balance drawdown maximal. The six drawdown lines in an MT5 report.
- MT5 pending orders in history. Filled, cancelled and expired orders.
- MT5 price history vs account history. Which history is which, and which one to fix.
- MT5 stop out and margin call explained. How the chain works and how a forced close appears in history.
- US30 and NAS100 trading journal. What to log for index CFDs on MT5.
- Move your trading journal to a new PC. The safe order for backup and restore.
- MT5 trading journal for Mac. Options for Mac users and why our app is Windows only.
- Best MT5 trading journal. How to choose, with facts from each vendor's own pages.
- TradeZella alternatives for MT5. Free, cheaper and local options by reason.
- Market Watch. Weekly scheduled events from official sources, with daily notes.
- Journaling FOMC days. The 2026 Fed schedule and a review routine.
- Journaling ECB, BoE and BoJ days. Dates from each bank and how to review your trades.
- Journaling NFP days. The jobs report and how to review your trades around it.
- Journaling CPI days. Inflation data and a news-day checklist.
- Consistency rule explained. What the rule checks and how to trade around it.
- MT5 partial close in history. How scaled-out trades are recorded.
- MT5 trailing stop explained. Why it needs the terminal running.
- MT5 break-even stop. What moving to entry does to your results.
- MT5 investor password. Read-only access and what a journal needs.
- XAUUSD leverage explained. Margin formula and table for gold at different leverage.
- MT5 floating vs realised profit. Open versus closed results and where each shows.
- MT5 screenshot for your journal. Capture charts and the History tab for review.
- Export MT5 chart data. Get bars and ticks into CSV.
- MT5 equity curve from trade history. Build a running-total curve from your closed trades.
- Clear MT5 trade history. What can and cannot be deleted, and how to start fresh.
- MT5 commission explained. Where commission shows in history and how to add it up.
- Gold trading hours (XAUUSD): open, close and breaks. When gold opens on Sunday, the daily break, the Friday close and why the times move twice a year.
- Forex session times in the UAE (Dubai time). London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney in UAE time, summer and winter.
- Forex session times in Pakistan (PKT). The sessions in Karachi time, the evening overlap and the weekly open.
- Forex session times in India (IST). Session times worked out for UTC+5:30, with a quick conversion table.
- Forex session times in South Africa (SAST). The sessions in SAST and why the week reopens on Sunday night in summer.
- Gold trading sessions journal. Tag Asian, London and New York trades and compare them by session.
- MT5 trade holding time. Measure how long your winners and losers stay open.
- MT5 stops level and freeze level. Why the terminal rejects tight stops and how to read the limits.
- MT5 tick value and tick size. Where profit and loss figures come from, with a worked example.
- MT5 order types explained. Market, limit, stop and stop limit orders, and how they appear in history.
- MT5 history balance rows. Keep deposits and withdrawals out of your trade statistics.
- MT5 swap-free account explained. What changes in your history and which costs often replace swap.
- MT5 Toolbox not showing: five fixes. Bring back the Trade and History panel in the terminal.
- XAUUSD lot size by account size. A risk-based table of gold lots by account size and stop distance.
- MT5 magic number: separate EA and manual trades. What the magic number is and how to split EA results from your own.
- MT5 lot size and contract size explained. Where to read volume rules and how to size a trade from risk.
- MT5 deal, order and position IDs. Which ticket is which, and which number links entries to exits.
- Gold pip value: what a pip in XAUUSD is worth. Pips, points and 0.01 on gold, with dollar values by lot size.
- MT5 history comments: what [sl], [tp] and so: mean. How a closed trade was closed, and how to separate planned stops from stop-outs.
- How to show MT5 trade history on the chart. Draw past trades on a chart and review them with a method.
- MT5 trading costs in the trade history. Spread, commission, swap and fees, with a worked net-result example.
- MT5 balance vs equity explained. Why the balance lags and the equity moves, with a worked example.
- MT5 margin level explained. Formula, margin call, stop out and what margin level does not tell you.
- MT5 report analyzer: how to analyse your trade history. The questions an MT5 report should answer, a spreadsheet method and the ready-made tools.
- MT5 swap explained: meaning, calculation, where to see it. Overnight financing, triple swap days and where swap shows in the History tab.
- MT5 server time: which clock your trades use. How to find the broker offset, convert it and keep your journal consistent.
- Forex compounding plan: growth, losing months and limits. The arithmetic, the effect of a losing month and the decisions a plan has to make.
- MT5 trading dashboard: Daily, Weekly, Monthly and All time. What each period is for, what the figures mean and a worked example of reading a month.
- MT5 built-in history versus a trading journal. What the terminal gives you for free, where it stops and when a journal is worth having.
- FOMO trading: find chased entries in your journal. The marks a chased entry leaves in your history, a tagging routine and a worked example.
- Trading anxiety: see what it costs in your own trades. Five ways anxiety appears in a trade record and a three-line journal routine. Not medical advice.
- Trade tracker for MT5: track every trade automatically. Four ways to track MetaTrader 5 trades, what a good tracker should show and how one that reads your terminal works.
- Day trading journal for MT5: forex, gold and indices. What to record, a five-minute daily routine and the numbers a day trader should watch.
- Trade log vs trading journal: the difference. What each one records and why traders keep both together.
- Find your best time to trade from your own MT5 trades. Group results by hour, settle the broker clock, respect the sample size and test changes forward.
- Swing trading journal for MT5: plan, hold, review. What to record before, during and after a swing trade, how swap and partial closes appear, and why to review weekly.
- Scalping trading journal for MT5: what to track. The fields, five numbers and a short review routine for traders who take dozens of trades a day.
- Trading journal in Google Sheets: template and formulas. Set one up in ten minutes, the formulas that work and how to avoid retyping every trade.
- Trade screenshots for your journal: what to capture. What to screenshot at entry and exit, how to take it fast and how to review it.
- How to tag trades: setup, emotion and rating system. A small tagging system, naming rules and a review after fifty trades.
- Import your whole MT5 history into a trading journal. Three methods, eight traps and a five minute check against your broker statement.
- How to set monthly trading goals. A loss limit first, then a target you can reason about, and a ten minute month-end review.
- Offline trading journal for Windows. What works without internet, how long the license can stay offline and a test for any journal.
- Decision fatigue in trading: signs, journal evidence and fixes. How a long session wears down rule following, how to spot it in your own trade history and a short list of ways to cut the number of decisions you make.
- How many trades per day should you take?. There is no universal number of trades per day. A method to find yours from your own MT5 journal, with a hypothetical example and how to enforce the cap.
- A forex trading daily routine that includes your journal. A simple forex trading daily routine: pre-session plan, rule-based trading and an end-of-day review, with the journal steps built in at each stage.
- Common forex trading mistakes and how your journal exposes them. Ten common forex trading mistakes, from no plan to never reviewing, and the journal field that makes each one visible, with a simple method to fix them.
- Why journaling is important for traders. Why journaling is important in trading: memory is biased, a journal is not. What it shows you, what it cannot do, and a simple way to start today.
- How journaling can impact your trading career. How journaling can impact your trading career: faster learning, finding your edge, sizing up with evidence and staying steady through drawdowns.
- Why a trading journal needs automation. Why a trading journal needs automation: manual entry causes gaps, errors and biased records. What to automate, what to write yourself, and how to choose.
- Why successful traders don't skip journaling their trades. Why serious traders never skip journaling trades: it tests their edge, keeps risk honest, and the trades they want to skip teach the most.
- Trading journal for beginners: start in 10 minutes. A trading journal for beginners: what to record for every trade, a simple first-week plan, and the mistakes that make new traders quit journaling.
- Revenge trading: how a journal helps you stop. Revenge trading shows up clearly in your trading data. What to log, how to review for it, and the rules traders use to break the pattern.
- Overtrading: how to spot it in your journal and stop it. Overtrading is more trades or more size than your plan justifies. How to measure it from your MT5 history and the rules that cap it.
- Trading discipline rules: examples and how to measure them. Trading discipline rules with examples, a paste-in template, and a simple way to score how often you follow your own rules each week.
- Losing streaks in trading: how long is normal?. Exact odds of a losing streak for different win rates over 100 trades, what they mean, and a step-by-step plan for handling one without revenge trades.
- Why you cut winners early and hold losers (and how to measure it). Why traders cut winners early and hold losers, what it costs in expectancy with a worked example, and how to measure it from your own journal data.
- Trading tilt: signs, data and what to do. Trading tilt is letting frustration drive decisions. The signs, how it shows in your MT5 history, and a short plan for the next trade after a loss.
- Overconfidence in trading: what it looks like in your data. Overconfidence after a winning run shows as bigger size and skipped checks. The signs, how to see them in your MT5 journal, and guardrails that help.
- Trading psychology journal: track emotions, FOMO and revenge trades. A trading psychology journal: which emotion fields to log, a simple scale, patterns like FOMO and revenge trades, and how to review them each week.
- Trading journal examples: three filled-in entries. Three hypothetical trading journal entries, a forex win, a gold trade and a rule-breaking loss, with what each one teaches and how to review them.
- Monthly trading performance report: what to include, with a template. What a monthly trading performance report should contain, a copyable template, and how to produce it as an Excel file from your own trades.
- Trading track record: how to build one others can trust. How to build and present a trading track record: self-reported versus verified, what to include, and how to show a Notion journal safely.
Knowledge: MT5, Notion and reports
Practical guides for the tools themselves. How to export and read your MetaTrader 5 history, how to journal into Notion, how to build reports in Excel, how to read the statistics, and how to check that a journaling tool is what it says it is.
- How to journal MT5 trades in Notion automatically. Step-by-step guide to journal MetaTrader 5 trades in Notion automatically: install, connect Notion, pick your MT5 account, and sync every 5 minutes.
- An MT5 trading journal that fills itself in. What a useful MetaTrader 5 trading journal records, why manual journaling gets skipped, and how to have every MT5 trade logged automatically on your PC.
- How to track MT5 trades automatically. Four ways to track MetaTrader 5 trades automatically: manual export, an Expert Advisor, a cloud journal, or a local app. Effort, privacy and cost compared.
- How to export your MT5 trade history to Excel. How to export your MetaTrader 5 trade history to Excel or HTML: History tab, Positions view, Report menu, plus tips for cleaning the data.
- MT5 Journal tab explained: terminal log vs trading journal. The MT5 Journal tab is a terminal log, not a trading journal. What it records, how it differs from History and Experts, and what a real journal adds.
- MT5 trade history not showing: 8 things to check. MT5 trade history not showing? Check the date range, switch between Positions, Orders and Deals, confirm the account and look at the Journal tab.
- How to track drawdown in MT5 (max and daily). Track drawdown in MT5: balance vs equity drawdown, a step-by-step calculation from your history, and why prop firms define daily drawdown differently.
- MT5 trading statistics: win rate, profit factor and drawdown. How to get real MT5 trading statistics from your history: win rate, profit factor, expectancy and drawdown, with formulas and four ways to do it.
- MT5 hedging vs netting accounts and your trade history. MT5 hedging versus netting accounts: how each mode stores positions, what it changes in your trade history, and how to journal it correctly.
- MT5 history_deals_get in Python: from deals to positions. How to use MT5 history_deals_get in Python and turn deals into one row per closed position, with the gotchas: commission, swap, stops and time zones.
- MT5 trade history for tax records: what to keep. A record-keeping checklist for MT5 traders: what to export and keep for your accountant, how to save your history, and common problems. Not tax advice.
- MT5 trading report in Excel: export, charts and a finished report. How to get an MT5 trading report into Excel with charts: the built-in History export, a manual build, and a one-click report from your journal.
- Export a Notion trading journal to Excel: CSV, formulas or a finished report. Three ways to get a Notion trading journal into Excel: the built-in CSV export, a formula summary, and a report with charts built from your trades.
- How to journal trades in Notion: a step-by-step workflow. A practical workflow for journaling trades in Notion: what to write before and after each trade, formulas, views and a weekly review.
- Notion for traders: the complete guide. Notion for traders: every Notion trading journal guide, template, dashboard and plan on this site, in the order to use them, plus MT5 automation.
- Win rate, profit factor and expectancy: what each one tells you. What win rate, profit factor, expectancy, R multiple and max drawdown tell you, how to calculate each, and a worked example of why win rate misleads.
- Trading performance analysis: find patterns and improve with data. Trading performance analysis for forex and MT5: a five-step method to clean your data, measure results, slice by symbol and session, and find patterns.
- Trading P&L tracker: daily, weekly and monthly (Excel, Notion, automatic). A trading P&L tracker done properly: net results per trade, day, week and month, with spreadsheet formulas, a Notion setup and an automatic MT5 option.
- Trading P&L calendar: build a daily results calendar. A trading P&L calendar shows every day's result at a glance. How to build one in Notion, make a colour heatmap in Excel, and what patterns to look for.
- Trading analytics software: what to look for. Trading analytics software: what it should show, four kinds compared (cloud, broker, spreadsheet, local app), where your data goes and how to choose for MT5.
- Multi-account trading journal: keep every MT5 account separate. A multi-account trading journal for MT5: keep personal, demo and prop accounts separate, with one journal per account and no blended results.
- Trading strategy tracker: tag setups and compare them. A trading strategy tracker: define your setups, tag every trade, measure each setup's win rate and expectancy, and act on the results without overfitting.
- How to check a trading journal is legit and safe. A practical checklist to tell whether a trading journal is legit and safe: access, broker login, data, price, support and proof, applied honestly to us too.
- Is AI Trading Journal legit and safe? The facts, and the gaps. Is AI Trading Journal legit and safe? Who makes it, what it can access, where your data goes, how to check each claim, and where it comes up short.
- AI Trading Journal on the Microsoft Store. AI Trading Journal is on the Microsoft Store. What the listing shows, how to install it, and what Store certification does and does not mean.
- Guides for MT5 traders. Guides on journaling MetaTrader 5 trades, keeping a local journal, using Notion if you like, tracking results automatically and choosing a journal that fits.
Free templates
Copy-and-use templates for journals, trading plans and reviews, in Excel, Google Sheets and Notion. If you would rather not fill them in by hand, AI Trading Journal saves your MT5 trades in your own journal on your PC (with an optional copy in your own Notion workspace) automatically.
- Trading journal PDF: a printable page worth filling in. The boxes to include on a one-page entry, a filled-in example and how to get a PDF from your MT5 history.
- Trade log template: columns, formulas and a free download. The 16 columns that matter, the formulas to build, a filled-in example and free Excel and CSV downloads.
- Free MT5 trading journal template (Excel and Google Sheets). Free MT5 trading journal template for Excel and Google Sheets: trade log, win rate, profit factor, expectancy, drawdown chart and weekly review.
- Forex trading journal Excel template: free CSV and formulas. A free forex trading journal Excel template as a CSV: columns, formulas for win rate and average R, how to fill it from MT5, and when to move on from a sheet.
- Gold trading journal template for XAUUSD: free CSV and checklist. Free gold trading journal template for XAUUSD as a CSV: session, stop distance, spread, news flag and R columns, plus a pre-trade checklist and review steps.
- Free Notion trading journal template: download and import. Free Notion trading journal template: download a CSV that imports into Notion as a trade log, with setup steps, views to add and honest limits.
- Notion trading journal template: fields to include and how to automate it. What a good Notion trading journal template contains, the fields to include, and how to fill it automatically from MetaTrader 5 trades.
- Notion forex trading journal template: fields and automation. A Notion forex trading journal template: the fields forex traders need (pair, lots, session, account), plus how to fill it automatically from MT5.
- Notion trading plan template: copy, paste and check yourself against it. A Notion trading plan template you can paste in: markets, setups, risk limits, checklist and review habits, plus how to check your journal against it.
- Notion backtesting template: a backtest log that stays honest. A Notion backtesting template: the fields for a backtest log, how to keep tests honest, and why a journal records real trades rather than testing them.
- Notion trading dashboard: what to include and how to build it. How to build a Notion trading dashboard: eight widgets that answer real questions, the formulas to use, and how to keep it fed with complete data.
- Forex trading plan template (free Excel download). Free forex trading plan template in Excel with a position size calculator, trade log and weekly review, plus how to write rules you can check.
- End of day trading review template. A free end of day trading review template: ten-minute questions, a filled-in example, and how to turn daily reviews into one rule change per week.
- Trading checklist template: pre-trade and post-trade. A free trading checklist template to copy: pre-trade and post-trade items with forex and MT5 tips, and how to check your journal against it each week.
- A weekly trading review you can finish in 20 minutes. A 20-minute weekly trading review checklist: numbers to check, questions to ask, patterns by symbol and session, and traps to avoid.
- Trading journal questions to ask after every trade. Twelve short trading journal questions on process, setup, numbers and state of mind, how to keep it under five minutes and how to review the answers.
Free calculators
Calculators for sizing, risk and drawdown, with the formula shown on each page. They run in your browser and send nothing anywhere. Use them as a check, not a guarantee: they are arithmetic on the numbers you type in, and trading carries risk.
- Trading cost calculator. Commission, spread and swap in one cost per trade and its share of your target.
- Prop firm consistency rule calculator. Best day against total profit and the profit still needed.
- XAUUSD pip value calculator. Dollar value of a gold pip for your lots and pip size.
- XAUUSD risk reward calculator. Entry, stop and target for gold: dollars at risk, ratio and break-even win rate.
- XAUUSD take profit calculator. Enter entry, lots and the profit you want to see the target price for gold.
- Forex session times converter. Choose your time zone and date to see when each forex session opens and closes where you are, with daylight saving worked out.
- XAUUSD stop loss calculator. Enter entry, lots and the money you accept to lose to see the stop distance, stop price and points for gold.
- XAUUSD margin calculator. Enter lots, gold price and leverage to see the margin a gold trade needs, plus free margin and margin level.
- Win rate calculator. Enter wins, losses and breakeven trades to get your win rate and the plausible range for your sample size.
- XAUUSD profit calculator. Enter lots and prices to get a gold trade's result, the value of a $1 move and the net after commission and swap.
- Profit factor calculator. Enter gross profit and gross loss to get your profit factor, average win, average loss and expectancy per trade.
- Daily loss limit calculator. Split a monthly loss limit across trading days, compare it with half an average winning day and see the strictest daily stop.
- R multiple calculator. Enter direction, entry, initial stop and exit to get the result as a multiple of your risk, the planned reward in R and the result in money.
- Average win and average loss calculator. Enter winners, losers and totals to get average win, average loss, payoff ratio, win rate, breakeven win rate, expectancy and profit factor.
- Breakeven win rate calculator. Free breakeven win rate calculator: enter average win, average loss and costs to see the win rate you need, with a 1:0.5 to 1:5 reward to risk table.
- Free trading compounding calculator. Free compounding calculator: enter a balance, a monthly return and months to see the arithmetic of compounding, and why it is not a forecast.
- Free drawdown recovery calculator. Free drawdown recovery calculator: enter your drawdown percentage to see the gain needed to get back to even, and roughly how many months it takes.
- Free trading expectancy calculator. Free trading expectancy calculator: enter win rate, average win and average loss to get expectancy, profit factor and payoff ratio. No sign-up.
- Free losing streak calculator. Free losing streak calculator: enter win rate, number of trades and streak length to get the chance of a losing run and the typical longest streak.
- Free margin calculator for forex and gold. Free margin calculator for forex and gold: enter lots, price and leverage to see the margin needed and the full position value. No sign-up.
- Pip value calculator for forex and gold. Free pip value calculator: the value of one pip for any lot size on USD pairs, USD-base, JPY and cross pairs, plus the value of a $1 move in gold.
- Free position size calculator (forex and gold). Free position size calculator for forex and gold: enter balance, risk percent, entry and stop loss to get your lot size. No sign-up.
- Free forex and gold profit and loss calculator. Free profit and loss calculator for forex and gold: enter lots, entry and exit price to get profit or loss and the move in pips. No sign-up.
- Prop firm drawdown calculator (daily and maximum loss). Free prop firm drawdown calculator: enter your own daily and maximum loss rules to see both floors, your buffer and your closest limit. No sign-up.
- Prop firm risk calculator: how many losing trades until the limit. Free prop firm risk calculator: turn your daily buffer and risk per trade into the number of losing trades you can take and the largest safe risk percentage.
- Risk of ruin calculator for traders. Free risk of ruin calculator for traders: enter win rate, payoff, risk per trade and the drawdown you call ruin to see the chance of reaching it.
- Free risk to reward calculator. Free risk to reward calculator: enter entry, stop loss and take profit to get your R:R ratio and the win rate you need to break even.
Looking for a broker or prop firm page?
Every MetaTrader 5 broker and prop firm we have written about, with the facts we could verify, is listed on the supported brokers page. The app reads your own MT5 terminal, so it works with the broker you already have.
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Related guides
- A local trading journal for MT5
- P&L calendar for MT5
- Trade notes, ratings and screenshots
- Trading progress and goals
- Back up your journal and move it to a new PC
- An offline trading journal for Windows
- How to set monthly trading goals
- Import your whole MT5 history
- How to tag trades
- Trade screenshots for your journal
- All trading journal comparisons
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