Built for Nasdaq futures · NQ & MNQ

Know your edge.

A trading journal built only for NQ and MNQ. Log the trade. Get back what your habits cost in dollars, whether you are actually getting better, and where your next 250 trades could go.

€14.95 a month, or €149 a year with 2 months free · Cancel in one click · 14 days to change your mind

nqtradingjournal.com/dashboardDemo journal, invented trades
The NQ Journal dashboard: five headline numbers across the top (+$21.4k net P&L with a deepest drawdown of $4,740, 233 trades, a 60% win rate, 1.95 average R:R and a winning streak) above an equity curve that climbs from the end of March to finish at its high in late September, with one pullback in the summer, and one green or red bar per trade below it with the average win of $821 and average loss of $1,006 marked.

Sample journal · 233 trades · computed by the product, not a track record

2 min
to log a trade
1,200
paths per projection
0
signals sold
Edge Score◆Progression◆Pattern Recognition◆Weak Spots◆What Your Habits Cost◆Trading Clock◆Monte Carlo Projection◆Real Edge or Luck◆Level vs Entry◆Confluence Combos◆Performance Matrix◆Streak Check◆Equity Curve◆P&L Calendar◆Missed Trades◆Economic Calendar◆Edge Score◆Progression◆Pattern Recognition◆Weak Spots◆What Your Habits Cost◆Trading Clock◆Monte Carlo Projection◆Real Edge or Luck◆Level vs Entry◆Confluence Combos◆Performance Matrix◆Streak Check◆Equity Curve◆P&L Calendar◆Missed Trades◆Economic Calendar◆
How it works

Three steps.
No spreadsheet.

What goes in is a couple of minutes per trade, mostly taps. What comes out is everything below.

  1. Log the trade

    Account, entry and exit, setup grade and the confluences you actually saw, most of it chips you tap. Put in your stop and target, pick the result, and the money fills itself in. A short check on how you traded it and how you felt is what your weak spots are built from. A setup you watched but did not take goes under Missed, kept out of every number.

  2. Build a sample

    Win rate means nothing at five trades, and the app says so out loud rather than printing a number you will believe. Your weak spots appear after five answered trades. Around twenty decisive trades the breakdowns start to separate, and there is enough of a record to say whether you are improving.

  3. Read your edge

    Your edge score, what works for you and what costs you, what your habits cost in dollars, whether you are getting better, and where the next 250 trades could go. Per account, with the uncertainty shown rather than hidden.

nqtradingjournal.com/addDemo journal, invented trades
The add-trade form: the account as a row of buttons (live, funded, eval, forwardtest, backtest, and missed set apart at the end), NQ or MNQ, entry and exit as two blocks with their own date and time, then a Setup card where bias, entry type, session, timeframe, confluences and setup quality are all chips you tap, with confluences split into the level you took it from and the entry that triggered you, and each setup grade explained in one line.
The desk

Five questions.
Answered from your own record.

Every panel states its own sample size and refuses to colour a number it cannot stand behind. That constraint is the product. The rest is just charts.

01Statistics

An edge score that will not flatter you.

Six measures of your record (win rate, expectancy, profit factor, consistency, discipline and reliability), each scored against your own history and drawn as one shape. The weakest is named out loud, because that is the one worth working on.

  • Every headline number states the trades it was computed from
  • Graded from F to S. The sample journal on this page is a C
  • One line on what is holding the shape in, in plain words
nqtradingjournal.com/statsDemo journal, invented trades
The statistics page: +$21.4k over 233 trades with a deepest drawdown of $4,740, a 60% win rate, a profit factor of 1.23, the best and worst trade and the longest streaks, above the edge score card: 57 out of 100, grade C, six measures each scored out of 100 and drawn as a six-sided shape, with reliability named the strongest and profit factor the weakest.
02Patterns

What works for you, and what costs you.

Everything you fill in (setup grade, confluences, sessions, how you felt, your answers on the check) held against the rest of your trades. What is working goes right, what is costing you goes left, and a group only shows once both sides have enough trades to compare. A list you removed in Settings is skipped, not guessed at.

  • Switch between win rate and money per trade
  • Each row against the rest of your trades, with the count it rests on
  • Open a row for the trades behind it
nqtradingjournal.com/statsDemo journal, invented trades
Pattern recognition across 233 trades that ended in a win or a loss. Working for you: A setups (81% won against 52% for the rest), four or more confluences, the 5-minute chart and trades with CISD. Costing you: two or fewer confluences, C setups, widening your stop, and a confidence of 4 or lower (36% against 64%).
03Psychology

The habit you have, priced in dollars.

A few taps on every trade (did you follow your rules, hold your stop, wait for your signal, how did you feel) become your weak spots, most expensive first. Then the bill, as one bar: what your trades made, and what each habit took, measured against your own clean trades rather than a textbook.

  • Each weak spot marks the trades it happened on
  • One bar: what you kept, and what each habit took
  • Every habit opens one routine to try, from your own numbers, never a call on the market
nqtradingjournal.com/psychologyDemo journal, invented trades
The psychology page: your weak spots from your own answers on 233 trades, most expensive first (widening your stop, taking setups you doubted, trading in a low mood, breaking your own rules, going in before your signal), each with a strip marking the trades it happened on; the four checks behind them; and what the habits cost as one bar: $21,385 made, $13,401 taken by going back in too fast and by taking fewer confluences after a loss, $34,786 without them.
04Progression

Better, worse, or too early to tell.

Your last thirty trades against everything before them, on win rate, the average trade, the average loss, following your own rules and the share of A and B setups. A change is only called better or worse once it is too big to be luck. In the sample journal one has crossed that line, and it went the wrong way.

  • The two stretches on one line, with the dates they cover
  • A shrinking average loss counts as better, because that is usually where improvement shows first
  • Following your rules is read from your own answers, not guessed
nqtradingjournal.com/statsDemo journal, invented trades
Progression: the earlier 203 trades (30 March to 1 September) and the last 30 (1 to 25 September) as two parts of one line, the verdict that losses got bigger and that this is the one to look at first, and five measures with a small chart each: win rate 73% from 58%, too early to tell; average trade $107 from $90, about the same; average loss $1,134 from $994, worse; followed your rules 80% from 87%; A and B setups 60% from 63%.
05Forward risk

A thousand versions of your next 250 trades.

Your own results, drawn at random 1,200 times and played forward. It shows the worst tenth of runs as plainly as the best, and how deep the dip gets along the way, because the path matters more than the endpoint when you are trading someone else's capital.

  • Bands, not a line: where the middle half and the middle 80% of runs go
  • The typical dip and the bad-luck dip, not just the final number
  • Follows the account you pick, because a funded account is not a backtest
nqtradingjournal.com/statsDemo journal, invented trades
Monte Carlo projection: the last sixty trades leading into 1,200 simulated paths fanning out from today, a 90% chance of profit after 250 trades, a typical outcome of +$23,586, a good run of +$44,869 and a bad run of +$235, with panels underneath for where the runs end up and how deep the dip gets on the way: $12,154 in a typical run, $23,911 with bad luck.
And the rest

When, where,
and how far.

Three more panels a trader opens every week. Behind them: level against entry, confluence combinations, whether your results run in streaks, how soon you go back in after a loss, whether your losses stay the same size, and an economic calendar scored for the Nasdaq.

When your trading works

Every trade as a dot on the hour you took it, with Tokyo, London and New York drawn in your own time zone. An hour only gets a win rate once it holds five decided trades, and the best and weakest are named above the chart.

nqtradingjournal.com/dashboardDemo journal, invented trades
Trading clock over a full day in New York time: one dot per trade stacked on the hour it was entered, the Tokyo, London and New York sessions as bands above them, a line at 10:40 in the busiest hour (49 trades, 69% won), and the best hour (11:00 to 12:00, 80% won) and the weakest (14:00 to 15:00, 42% won) named above the chart.

Eight ways to slice the same journal

Session, setup grade, confluence, timeframe, day of week, entry type, news and location, ranked by how much evidence is behind each number, with the strongest and the weakest named, and a profit-factor view so one outsized win cannot carry a losing category.

nqtradingjournal.com/statsDemo journal, invented trades
Performance matrix: win rate by session as a bar chart, from NY morning at 67% over 66 trades down to Asia at 36% over 14, with tabs for setup, confluence, timeframe, day, entry, news, location and profit factor, and the strongest and the weakest session named beside it.

Real edge, or luck?

Where your trades land, in multiples of your average loss, and one sentence on whether the edge is real. At 233 trades this one still says too early to say, and roughly how many trades it would take to know.

nqtradingjournal.com/statsDemo journal, invented trades
R-multiple distribution: losing trades massed around minus one R, winners spread out past plus three R, a curve of where the trades cluster, and the verdict too early to say: an average trade of +0.09R that could still sit anywhere from -0.05R to +0.23R, with around 555 trades needed to settle it.
Six palettes, two modes

Change how it looks.
Never what it means.

Twelve variants, all generated from one palette file, and all of them checked against WCAG contrast before they ship. Win, loss and break-even keep their meaning in every one; the accent never stands in for “good”.

nqtradingjournal.com/dashboardDemo journal, invented trades
The P&L calendar: a year of trading days as a heatmap, one row per weekday, on a green-to-red scale: 102 days traded, 60 green against 42 red, the best day +$2,625 on 12 August and the worst -$2,606 on 30 June, with the days nobody traded left empty.

Emerald dark · one of the twelve

What this will not do

No signals.
No guarantees.

This is a journal and an analysis tool, not a trading service. It will not tell you what to buy, it does not manage risk for you, and nothing in it predicts the market. Anything that told you where the tape was going would be a different kind of business than this one, and a disclaimer at the bottom of a page would not change that.

What it does is refuse to flatter you. A win rate over four trades is labelled too few to read. A confluence combination that won three out of three is ranked below one that won fourteen out of twenty. When it projects your account forward it shows the worst runs as plainly as the best ones. If your edge is not there yet, the app will say so, which is the only version of this worth paying for.

Trading futures carries a substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. Nothing here is financial advice or a personal recommendation. The screenshots on this page show a demo journal filled with invented trades: they are not anyone’s real results, and not a picture of what you should expect.

Pricing

One plan. Everything in it.

No tiers, no feature gates, no upsell inside the app. Full access to every module from day one.

NQ JournalFull access
€14.95/month

Price includes 21% Dutch VAT. Customers elsewhere in the EU are charged their own country’s rate at checkout.

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  • Unlimited trades, unlimited accounts
  • Every statistic, computed per account
  • Edge score, progression & pattern recognition
  • Your weak spots and what your habits cost
  • Trading clock & win rate by session
  • 1,200-path Monte Carlo & drawdown risk
  • Missed setups logged, kept out of your numbers
  • Economic calendar scored for the Nasdaq
  • P&L calendar, equity curve, trade screenshots
  • Six themes, light and dark
  • Export to CSV or JSON, 30 days to undo a delete

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Questions

Before you sign up.

It is built for them. The contract sizes it knows by heart are NQ and MNQ, the sessions are the ones a Nasdaq trader keeps, and the economic calendar is scored for what moves the Nasdaq. The asset is still just a field on the trade, so another instrument can be logged, but the journal will not know its point value, and everything here is tuned for the Nasdaq.

The log and the calendar are useful from trade one, and your weak spots show up after five trades with the check filled in. Statistics start to separate around twenty decisive trades, and each panel states its own threshold rather than pretending a number is solid when it is not.

No, and it never will. There are no signals, no bias calls and no forecasts anywhere in it. A module that published a directional read on the Nasdaq was removed for exactly that reason. Everything here is measurement of decisions you already made. Where it does suggest something, it is a routine for a habit, like a pause after a losing trade, built from your own numbers and never about what or when to trade.

Yes, and you should. Every list in the trade form is one you edit in Settings: confluences, sessions, timeframes, setup grades, accounts, news. Rename one and every historical trade updates with it, and the analysis only looks at the lists you actually use.

Yes. Pick Missed as the account and the setup is kept with what it would have made, but it never enters your win rate, your P&L or any statistic. Choose Missed in the account filter to look at them on their own.

No. Trades are entered by hand, on purpose. Writing down why you took a trade is most of the value, and an automatic import would skip exactly the part that makes a journal work.

Only you. Every query is scoped to your account at the database level, screenshots are stored privately behind signed links that expire, and you can add two-step verification with an authenticator app so a password alone does not get in. No analytics script runs on this site, which is also why you were not asked to accept any cookies.

Put it back. A trade you delete or change is kept as it was for 30 days, and Settings restores it with one click. A copy of your whole journal is also made every night, so a mistake on our side can be undone too.

One button on the Subscription page, which opens Stripe's billing portal. No notice period and no retention script. Inside the first 14 days you can go further and withdraw from the contract entirely, which refunds the part of the month you have not used.

It stays where it is, so coming back does not mean starting over. You can download all of it as CSV or JSON whenever you like. If you would rather it did not stay, Settings deletes everything you have logged, trades, screenshots and safety copies alike, immediately and irreversibly.

Your edge is already in your history.

It is just not written down yet.