Common questions, straight answers.
Everything you need to know about Trade Noted — how it works, what it costs, and what we do with your data.
General
Trade Noted is a free manual trading journal designed for serious and prop firm traders. It lets you log trades, analyze performance, enforce trading rules, run Monte Carlo simulations, and share your portfolio publicly.
Retail traders, prop firm traders (FTMO, The5%ers, FundedNext, etc.), and anyone who wants to treat their trading like a business. Especially useful if you need structured rules enforcement during evaluation challenges.
Yes. Completely free forever. No free tier with a paid upgrade. No feature paywalls. No credit card required. Every feature is available to every user, always.
No. Trade Noted is manual-entry and CSV-import only. This is a deliberate design decision. Auto-sync creates passive journals — no reflection, no learning. The deliberate entry is part of the journaling process.
Trade Logging
MT4, MT5, cTrader, TradingView, and any platform that exports trade history as CSV. You map the columns once per format and Trade Noted handles the rest.
Yes. Each trade supports free-form notes, setup tags, and image attachments. Build a rich, searchable record of your decision-making over time.
Yes. Unlimited accounts per user. Track different strategies, prop firm accounts, and personal accounts separately — each with their own analytics and rules.
Analytics
Expectancy, profit factor, average R-multiple, win rate, max drawdown, average drawdown, recovery factor, R-multiple distribution, session breakdowns, instrument performance, behavioral pattern detection (overtrading, revenge), and more.
R-multiples express each trade's profit/loss as a multiple of the risk taken. A +2R trade means you made twice what you risked. R-multiple distribution tells you whether your edge comes from frequency (win rate) or magnitude (big winners).
Rules Engine
Daily loss limit, maximum total drawdown, maximum risk per trade (as a fixed amount or percentage), and maximum trades per day. Rules can be configured per account, including challenge-phase-specific rule sets (Step 1, Step 2, Funded).
Trade Noted cannot block trades at the broker level — it is a journal, not a trade execution tool. It shows your compliance status clearly so you know whether you are within your rules before and after each trade.
Monte Carlo
It randomizes your actual trade results across thousands of sequences to reveal the full distribution of possible outcomes: best case (P90), median (P50), worst case (P10), max drawdown, and probability of account ruin.
Unlimited. You can run simulations at any sample size. The more runs, the more robust the output distribution.
Privacy & Data
Only you by default. If you enable portfolio sharing, only the information you choose to share is visible — you can hide exact amounts, specific instruments, or individual trades.
No. We do not sell, share, or monetize your trading data in any way. Your trade history, account details, and analytics are private to you.
Yes. You can export your full trade history and analytics at any time. You are never locked in. Your data belongs to you.