Free journal for funded traders

Keep the account.
Keep the payout.

The Trading Lab logs every trade, tracks each evaluation against its rules, and tells you when your own limits say stop, before a bad day costs you the account.

  • Free account, no card
  • Phone and desktop
  • Syncs to every device

Ready-made rules for top prop firms

Plus any other firm you add yourself. Import from TopstepX, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, MT4/MT5, TradeLocker or any CSV. Logos belong to their owners.
Inside The Trading Lab

Everything a funded trader checks, in one place.

Built around what actually ends prop accounts: daily loss limits, trailing drawdown, revenge trades and sizing up after a loss.

New · AI Coach

A coach that has read every trade you've logged

Ask in plain words: "Why did I lose this week?", "How close am I to my drawdown?", "When do I trade best?". Coach looks through your own journal, accounts and rules, then answers with your real numbers. Tell it a trade and it logs it after you confirm.

Today page

Guardrails that tell you when to stop

Set your own max loss, max trades and a cooldown after losing streaks. Plan the day, tick your checklist, and keep a streak of days where you kept your rules.

Trades today3 of 4
Daily loss used$310 of $500
Accounts

Every eval against its rules

Target, static or trailing drawdown, daily loss, consistency and minimum days.

Profit target$2,040 / $2,000
Ready to pass
AI fill

Paste a screenshot, get the trade

AI reads your platform screenshot and fills in the trade. Or import any CSV.

Analytics

A trader score out of 100

Plus 13 automatic checks for what's costing you money.

Risk control88
Discipline61
Psychology

See what your moods cost

Tag how you felt before each entry. The Trading Lab puts a dollar figure on it.

Calm
+$2,140
Tired
−$510
FOMO
−$930
Share

Cards worth posting

Day, month, stats and eval-passed images, ready for Instagram and X.

Make it yours

Day and night, your way

Frosted glass over a calm matte gradient, in day or night. Turn on colour-blind friendly colours, hide amounts for streams, and lock the journal with a PIN.

DayBright glass
NightDark glass
The real cost

What blown evaluations cost you.

Most funded traders spend more on failed evaluations than on anything else. Move the sliders to see your yearly number.

You spend each year
$2,880

Keeping 1 more evaluation alive each month saves $1,440 a year. The Trading Lab costs nothing.

How it works

Four habits. Five minutes a day.

Create a free account and the same journal is on your phone and your computer, always in sync.

1

Add your accounts

Each eval or funded account, with its target, drawdown and daily loss rules.

2

Plan the day

Write your bias and levels, tick your checklist, and set today's limits.

3

Log every trade

Paste a screenshot, import a CSV, or log it by hand. Mark it on or off plan.

4

Review and fix

Check your score and insights each week, and drop the setups and habits that cost you.

Install

On your desk and in your pocket.

The Trading Lab installs like an app, with its own icon and full screen. No app store needed, and it works offline.

iPhone and iPad

  1. Open The Trading Lab in Safari.
  2. Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add.

Android

  1. Open The Trading Lab in Chrome.
  2. Tap ⋮, then Install app.
  3. Confirm with Install.

Mac and Windows

  1. Open The Trading Lab in Chrome or Edge.
  2. Click the install icon in the address bar.
  3. Click Install.

Your data stays yours

Saved in your own browser, not on our servers.

Back up in one tap

Download a backup file and restore it on any device.

Works offline

Install it and log trades without a connection.

Questions

Good to know.

Is The Trading Lab really free?

Yes. Every feature is free. You only need an email address to create your account. No card.

Where is my journal saved?

In your account, kept private to you, so it's there on every device you sign in on. Each device also keeps a copy, so the app opens fast and keeps working if your connection drops. You can download a backup file from Settings any time, or delete your account and journal for good. Screenshots you read with AI are read and discarded.

Where do my chart screenshots go?

Straight onto your own device, never onto our website. When you save a trade, its screenshot is saved as a file on your phone or computer. On a computer with Chrome or Edge you can pick a folder, such as Documents › My trade screenshots, and every screenshot is saved there by month, named after the trade. On a phone it goes to your downloads.

Can I use it on my phone and my computer?

Yes. Sign in on each device and your trades, accounts, rules and notes are all there, synced automatically. Install it to your home screen and it works like an app.

Which prop firms and platforms does it work with?

Any firm. For FundedSquad, Goat Funded Trader, Lucid Trading, Tradeify, Pipstone Capital, FundingPips, FundedNext, FundedNext Futures, Blue Guardian and Blue Guardian Futures, pick the firm's template and the drawdown, daily loss, target and consistency rules fill in for you. For any other firm, enter the rules yourself. Trades come in from a screenshot, a CSV export (TopstepX, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, MT4/MT5, TradeLocker and most others), or by hand.

Does it work for forex and crypto too?

Yes. Log any instrument in your account currency. Sessions are worked out from New York time, which suits futures and forex alike.

Is this financial advice?

No. The Trading Lab is a record-keeping and review tool. It doesn't give trading advice or signals, and it can't guarantee results.

Your next eval deserves a better record.

Start in seconds. A free account, no card, nothing to install unless you want to.