Features
CandleLog is a comprehensive trading journal designed to help you track, analyze, and improve your trading performance. No more scattered spreadsheets or forgotten lessons. Here's everything the platform can do for your trading.
Trade Logging
Record every trade with complete details. Manual entry for quick logging or CSV import for bulk uploads. Capture entries, exits, position sizes, commissions, and fees. Add screenshots and notes to document your thinking.
Key capabilities:
- Manual trade entry with all essential fields
- CSV import supporting multiple broker formats
- Screenshot attachments for chart documentation
- Custom notes and tags for organization
- Support for futures, stocks, options, forex, and crypto
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Strategy Management
Build structured trading strategies with specific rules. Define market conditions, entry criteria, and exit criteria. Track rule compliance on every trade to understand what's working and what isn't.
Key capabilities:
- Create strategies with categorized rules
- Import from 24+ professional templates
- Track rule compliance per trade
- Share strategies with other traders
- Import strategies from shared links
Strategy Templates
Start with proven setups from professional traders. Browse templates for ICT concepts, classic day trading strategies, swing trading methods, and scalping techniques. Import with one click and customize to your style.
Available categories:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Day Trading | ORB, Gap & Go, VWAP Breakout, Power Hour Reversal |
| ICT Concepts | Silver Bullet, FVG + Order Block, Liquidity Raid, Power of 3, AMD |
| Swing Trading | Supply & Demand Zones, Darvas Box |
| Scalping | VWAP Mean Reversion |
| Classic Methods | Turtle Trading, O'Neil CANSLIM, Livermore Pivots |
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Strategy Rules
Define precise trading rules with three categories: Market Criteria (conditions), Entry Criteria (triggers), and Exit Criteria (profit/loss management). Each rule can be marked as required and assigned an outcome type.
Rule features:
- Three rule types: Market, Entry, Exit
- Required vs optional rule designation
- Outcome filtering: ALWAYS, WINNER, LOSER, BREAKEVEN
- Hierarchical sub-rules for complex setups
- Descriptions for detailed documentation
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Performance Analytics
Understand your trading with comprehensive metrics. Track Net P&L, Win Rate, Profit Factor, Expectancy, and more. The Rules Followed Rate shows correlation between discipline and profitability.
Metrics tracked:
- Net P&L - Total profit and loss
- Win Rate - Percentage of winning trades
- Profit Factor - Gross profits divided by gross losses
- Rules Followed Rate - Discipline measurement
- Expectancy - Expected value per trade
- Average Winner/Loser - Mean profits and losses
- Largest Profit/Loss - Best and worst trades
- Total R Multiple - Performance in risk units
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Missed Trades
Track opportunities you identified but didn't execute. Log the setup, potential entry/exit, and reason you missed it. Calculate the potential P&L to understand the cost of inaction.
Missed trade features:
- Log complete trade setup details
- Record reason for missing (hesitation, busy, etc.)
- Calculate potential P&L
- Identify patterns in missed opportunities
- Review to improve future execution
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Dashboard
Your command center for trading performance. View key metrics, performance charts, and recent trades at a glance. Filter by time period to analyze specific ranges.
Dashboard features:
- 9 stat cards: P&L, Win Rate, Profit Factor, Max Drawdown, and more
- Equity curve and daily P&L charts
- Risk metrics with Sharpe Ratio and VaR calculations
- Recent trades list with quick navigation
- Time period filtering (7d, 30d, 90d, 1y, all time, custom)
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Calendar
Visualize your trading performance on a monthly calendar. See daily P&L at a glance, track winning and losing day streaks, and quickly navigate to specific days for deeper analysis.
Calendar features:
- Daily P&L with color-coded backgrounds (green/red)
- Monthly summary with total P&L, win rate, and streaks
- Weekly totals in a dedicated summary column
- Click-through navigation to filtered dashboard views
- Current day highlighting
Journal
Document your trading day with rich notes and context. Track your mood, market conditions, and volatility. Auto-save keeps your notes safe as you write.
Journal features:
- Rich text notes with markdown support
- Auto-save functionality
- Context selectors for mood, market condition, and volatility
- Daily statistics calculated from your trades
- Navigation between trading days
Reports
Analyze your trading patterns with grouped reports. Discover your best trading hours, days, instruments, and trade durations. Identify what's working and what isn't.
Reports features:
- Group by hour, day of week, month, duration, or instrument
- Performance charts for each grouping
- Tag-based performance analysis
- Win/loss breakdown visualization
- Risk/reward analysis
Trade Import
Import trades from your broker with smart CSV parsing. The system automatically detects broker formats and maps fields correctly. Preview before importing to verify accuracy.
Import capabilities:
- Auto-detection of broker formats
- Timezone conversion handling
- Account number detection
- Preview with P&L summary
- Duplicate detection
By the Numbers
Traders using CandleLog consistently report improvements:
- Better Rule Compliance - Seeing which rules correlate with wins
- Reduced Emotional Trading - Structure creates discipline
- Faster Improvement - Learning from documented mistakes
- Time Saved - No more manual spreadsheet tracking
Settings
Customize CandleLog to match your trading setup. Manage trading accounts, set your timezone, and configure preferences.
Settings features:
- Profile management
- Multiple trading accounts with different currencies
- Timezone configuration for accurate timestamps
- Data export and account management
Data Ownership
Your trading data belongs to you. CandleLog stores your information securely and never shares it with third parties. Export your data anytime. No broker connections required - you control what information enters the system.