WarRoom TradesEvery trade debriefed. Automatically.

Paper trades inside the Watchtower

Trades sits in the same row as the Watchtower’s views, because it is about the same coins. Every trade is placed on the chart, so you see exactly where you are entering. Planning from a Watchtower level opens the chart at that level, with the plan filled in from it, and nothing is tracked until you place the trade.

The Open tab shows each trade as a ruler from your stop to your target, with your entry, the price now and the walls and gaps between them. Above the trades, today’s session is measured against your daily limit, and your open risk is added up across every trade.

Market and limit entries are supported. Fills use the exact live futures trades, so a wick that touched your price fills you and one that missed does not. Where data is missing, the trade is marked as a gap instead of inventing a fill. Every trade is simulated, and nothing is sent to an exchange.

A journal that writes itself

Most trading journals depend on you filling them in after the trade, when memory is kind to you. Trades records as it goes. When you open a trade, it saves a snapshot of the market evidence at that moment. While the trade runs, it records stop and target changes and the best and worst point of the trade. When it closes, the trade is filed in the journal by itself.

Each journal entry starts with how the trade was taken, not how it ended: clean or rules broken, the plan kept or not, the rules kept and the habits seen. A good trade can lose money and still count as clean. Then come the plan beside what happened, the market at entry and your review. The result comes last: R, net dollars, fees, funding and how long you held it.

Trades waiting for you, such as an exit reason or a review you put off, come first. You can filter the journal to clean or rule-broken trades, see the set-ups you chose to skip, and slice it by a lens such as the session or the volume at entry.

It grows with the Academy

On day one, Trades is entry, price and the result in percent. Every trade is still recorded in full from the first click. Each Academy lesson you learn opens the part of Trades it teaches and applies it to the trades you already took: results in R after the risk lesson, planning on the chart after the pre-trade checklist, exit reasons after the exit lesson, partial closes, trailing stops, Insights and more. Altogether, 25 tools and 23 lenses open this way.

You plan a trade on the chart before you take it: entry, stop and target are lines you drag, the stop starts at the nearest wall, gap or swing beyond your entry, the size is worked out at your 1R, and the set-up is named for you from the coin and timeframe. Locking the plan stamps the time, so “planned before entry” is a recorded fact rather than a claim. It checks the plan; the first four checks appear as you learn their lessons:

• The reward is at least 1.5 times the risk.
• The stop is at least one ATR from entry.
• The trade risks no more than your 1R.
• The liquidation price is at least twice as far away as the stop.
• The order is no more than 1% of the coin’s hourly volume, and the coin trades at least $2 million a day.

When you see a set-up and pass on it, right-click the chart or the coin and choose Skip it. You record why, for example “Under 1.5R” or “Trend against”. Skipped trades are not trades, but they are part of your process, and the journal keeps them.

Session rules that hold you to your limits

Trades are measured in R, the amount you risk on one trade. You set your rules within safe bounds:

After a session stopped by these limits, the next session trades at half size. Full size comes back after two trades that follow the plan, win or lose. You can choose Enter anyway, but the override is recorded and that trade no longer counts as clean.

Insights: your edge, from your own trades

Insights start from your edge: the average R a trade, after costs. They compare clean trades with rule-broken ones, with every trade shown as a dot, draw your curve in R with its drawdown, and point to the widest gaps across your lenses under Worth a look. Pick a lens to see each group in full and open its trades in the journal.

With fewer than 20 trades with a stop, Insights say so and show the range your average likely sits in, instead of a single number. A lens compares groups once each has 5 trades.

Insights also read six habits from your trades: FOMO, revenge, hope, boredom, greed and fear of giving back. Each is shown as seen, not seen or not recorded, from facts the server recorded, not from judgements.