EL Journal
Your trading journal, kept automatically.
EL Journal is a trade journal and analytics app that auto-syncs your brokers, then turns your real trade history into a dashboard, a calendar, deep analytics and a personal AI coach — so reviewing your trading finally becomes effortless.
Free to start — no card required. Upgrade to Basic any time.
From spreadsheet chaos to clarity
Manual journaling is tedious, error-prone, and the first thing to slip when you’re busy trading. EL Journal does it for you.
Everything in one place
Dashboard
Your whole account, on one screen.
Equity curve, win rate, profit factor and running P&L update the moment your trades sync — no formulas, no manual tallying. Open the app and the state of your trading is just there.
Trade Log
Every fill, already logged.
A fast, filterable table of every trade — slice by symbol, date, direction or outcome, then export a clean PDF for your records or your coach. Nothing typed in twice.
Calendar
Your good and bad days, at a glance.
A month-at-a-glance heatmap of daily profit and loss, so winning streaks — and the days that quietly cost you — jump straight out of the grid.
Analytics
Find what’s actually making — and losing — you money.
Break performance down by setup, session, instrument and entry-timing kill zone — with drawdown, streaks and a Monte Carlo simulation that stress-tests your edge over thousands of runs.
AI Trading Coach
Ask your trades a question. Get a straight answer.
The coach reads your real, synced trade history — not generic advice — and answers in plain English, with your own numbers. It’s the review a good mentor would do, on every session, for free.
Try the coach freeExample
Illustrative — your coach speaks from your own data.
And everything else you’d expect
Review & Discipline
Tag every synced trade to a playbook setup, then see exactly where you broke your own rules — over-risking, no stop, trading off-plan.
Broker auto-sync
Connect once and EL Journal pulls your closed trades automatically — across 20+ platforms and five asset classes.
Prop-firm tracking
Group and track funded and prop-firm accounts on their own — auto-synced — so evaluation and payout accounts stay separate from your personal book.
CSV / JSON import-export
Bring history in from any broker by CSV, or export your whole journal as JSON — your data stays yours, portable and never locked in.
Undo/redo & shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts for logging and editing, with a 50-step undo/redo history — journaling stays quick enough to actually keep up with.
Monte Carlo & drawdown
Stress-test your edge over thousands of simulated runs and see your realistic drawdown range — not just a single lucky (or unlucky) history.
Works with your broker
20+ platforms sync automatically — and every broker imports by CSV.
How EL Journal compares
The full journaling suite and an AI coach — at one flat price.
| Feature | EL Journal | TradeZella | Spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $29 flat | $35–$99 | Free |
| Start free — no card | ✓ | Paid only | ✓ |
| Automatic broker sync | 20+ platforms | ✓ | ✗ |
| Stocks · options · futures · forex · crypto | All five | ✓ | By hand |
| AI trading coach | Included | Credit-metered | ✗ |
| Prop-firm account tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Dashboard, calendar & analytics | ✓ | ✓ | Build it yourself |
| One simple plan — no tier maze | ✓ | 3 tiers, gated | — |
Based on TradeZella's public pricing, August 2026. Fair's fair: TradeZella also ships strategy backtesting and bar-by-bar trade replay that EL Journal doesn't — we focus on automatic journaling, analytics and coaching at a flat price.
How live-sync works
Connect your broker
Link your account once through a secure connection — or, for any platform, just import a CSV. Your login credentials are never stored.
We pull your closed trades
EL Journal fetches your completed trades automatically and keeps them in sync, so your journal fills itself in without manual entry.
Review and improve
Study your results on the dashboard, calendar and analytics, and ask the AI coach what to work on next — then trade with a clearer edge.
Your trades, reviewed automatically.
Connect a broker and let EL Journal do the journaling. Start free — no card required — and upgrade to Basic when you're ready.