Trade with
discipline.
Own every move.
A trading journal that checks your entry against what the market actually printed. Log a trade in seconds, score it in R, and build a record you can hand to someone else.
The evidence
Five findings, none of them ours
Every number below is a regulator's own measurement or a published study, named underneath it. Four of them describe the problem. The fifth is the only thing anyone has measured that helps.
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74–89%
of retail accounts lose money.
European Securities and Markets Authority, product intervention analysis, 2018.
How it was measured
Not a survey. The regulators made every broker in the EU publish its own figure, then measured the range across jurisdictions. Average loss per client: €1,600 to €29,000.
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Under1%
of day traders are predictably profitable after fees.
Barber, Lee, Liu and Odean, Taiwan Stock Exchange, 1992–2006.
How it was measured
Not a sample of volunteers — every single day trader on one national exchange, followed for fifteen years. Aggregate performance was reliably negative in fourteen of them.
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0.4%
earned more than a bank teller. Time at it did not fix that.
Chague, De-Losso and Giovannetti, “Day Trading for a Living?”, 2020.
How it was measured
19,646 people who took up day trading, tracked from their first day. The same study reports no evidence of learning: staying at it longer did not turn into skill.
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56%
of finance influencers were “antiskilled”. They had the most followers.
Kakhbod, Kazempour, Livdan and Schürhoff, “Finfluencers”, StockTwits data.
How it was measured
Over 29,000 accounts, graded against what the market actually did next. Following them cost −2.3% a month; only 28% were skilled — and the antiskilled ones had more followers, more activity and more influence than the skilled ones. Nothing on the screen tells the two apart.
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+22.8%
from writing down what you learned, instead of doing more of it.
Ten experiments, 4,340 people. Past a certain amount of experience, articulating what you already did beat accumulating more of it. This is a result about learning, not about returns — and learning is the only thing being claimed here.
Di Stefano, Gino, Pisano and Staats, “Making Experience Count”, 2016.
What follows from it
Four of those five are why this exists. The fifth is how it works: write the trade down while you still remember why you took it, let the record be checked rather than claimed, and judge anyone teaching you — including anyone on this platform — by a number they cannot edit.
How it works
One trade, from the second you take it
Seven steps, and each one hands something to the next. The last two are the reason the first five are worth doing.
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You log it, in seconds
Asset type, ticker, side, price, quantity. The stop is optional and can wait until the position is already running. Why you took it and how it felt are tagged as you go.
The part you will want in three months gets captured at 16:32, not reconstructed from memory.
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It gets checked against the tape
The entry is matched to real market data for that symbol and that day, and drawn on the candles that actually traded. The data provider is printed on the chart. You may attach a broker screenshot as well.
A record you did not write alone — and cannot quietly improve later.
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It runs, and the market tells you
Targets and a stop sit on the position. Beside them, six kinds of condition — a price level, price against a moving average, a moving-average cross, a MACD cross, an RSI level, a volume spike — checked on every candle close and pushed to your phone.
You stop sitting in front of the screen to find out.
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It closes, and scores itself
R on every closed trade, plus win rate, return and your best result — across two portfolios, four asset classes, seven chart timeframes and five indicators. In Hebrew or English, right to left or left to right.
The number is computed from what you entered. Nobody types it in.
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You read it back
The journal puts what you did, why you did it and how it felt next to what the market went on to do. Filtered by week, month, quarter, year — or all of it.
This is the step the +22.8% finding above is about. It is the only one measured to help.
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Trader & mentor
Someone who teaches you answers on the trade itself
A mentor you approved sees your trades with their charts and replies in a thread on the trade — not in a message that arrives three days later with the context gone. On his side, every student sits in one place, with who has moved since he last looked.
Feedback lands on the decision it is about, while you still remember making it.
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Before you pick a teacher
And you can see who is worth learning from
Every mentor's record is the same computed number yours is. Next to it sits the aggregate result of the students already learning from him — shown only from three students up, in percentages and R and never in money, and only if he publishes his own record too.
You choose a teacher by a number he cannot edit, instead of by a screenshot.
More is being built. Nothing on this page describes something that does not already work.
Logging a trade takes
seconds, not minutes.
Five fields
Ticker, side, price, quantity. The stop is optional and can wait until the position is already running.
Why, and how it felt
Tagged as you go. It is the part you will want in three months, and the part nobody types into a spreadsheet at 16:32.
A price the market never
printed does not pass.
Checked against the tape
Every trade is matched to real market data for that symbol and that day, and drawn on the candles that actually traded.
The source is named
The data provider is printed on the chart itself. You may attach a broker screenshot as well. The chart is what argues.
A record that survives being shown to someone
Every closed trade carries its R. Every screen carries the same three measures. What anyone else ever sees is a percentage, never the size of your account.
Chague and De-Losso followed Brazilians who took up day trading and stuck with it. Among those who persisted for more than 300 days, 97% lost money. Chague and De-Losso, “Day Trading for a Living?” (2020).
The market tells you. You do not sit watching it.
Put a condition on a symbol and leave. The scan runs on the server every hour against closed candles, and what fires reaches your phone.
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Conditions, not noise
EMA and SMA crossings, RSI, MACD, or a plain price level, on four-hour, daily or weekly candles.
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Only on a closed candle
Nothing fires on a wick that un-prints a minute later. The condition has to hold when the candle closes.
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It reports, it does not advise
An alert says a condition was met, and names the symbol, the timeframe and the direction. What you do about it is yours.
Three people open this, for three reasons
The same record serves all three, because it is the only thing all three can agree is true.
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You journal for yourself
Nobody sees anything. Trades, tags, notes and numbers are yours, and the only argument the record makes is to you.
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You are deciding where to learn
Every mentor has a page: his experience, the markets he trades, how he works, and, if he publishes them, his win rate, R and closed trades. From three students up you also see how his students are doing together. Percentages only; nobody's account size appears anywhere.
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You teach
Your students' trades appear as they happen, read-only, and you see who moved since you last looked. You comment on the trade itself, so the conversation stays attached to the position it is about. You cannot edit their record, which is the whole reason it is worth anything.
The same record, on the desk
and in your pocket.
The desktop version is the whole product, not a cut-down view: a persistent sidebar, tables you can sort and filter, candle charts with your own indicators, and the mentor area. The phone is where a trade actually gets logged, in seconds, while the position is still moving.
- iPhone and Android · on the way to the App Store and Google Play.
- Desktop · runs in any browser, nothing to install.
- Hebrew and English · right-to-left built in, not bolted on.
Opening soon.
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Log the trade where you took it.
The phone app is the same record, and it is where a position actually gets written down — in the minute you took it, not in the evening.
Until then the browser version is the whole product, on a phone as well as on a desk.