TradeBBForex trading journal with stop, target and swap already filled in
Track every pair, every gold trade and every overnight charge without typing a single one in. Then see which hours, pairs and habits are paying — and which are quietly costing you.
Platforms
Connect your account once. Or drop in a file.
MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and cTrader accounts connect read-only and sync on their own, as often as you choose. TradeBB can see your history and can never touch a position. Every other platform comes in as a trade history file. Of the 1,730 traders who named their broker when they joined TradeBB, MetaTrader 5 was the most common answer — ahead of any single broker.
- MT4 and MT5 — connect by server name, so most brokers just work
- cTrader — connects directly, with the same read-only access
- MT4 and MT5 reports — upload your history or a Strategy Tester backtest
- Any other platform — upload the file; Any Broker (AI) reads it
Step by step: MT4 trading journal · MT5 trading journal · all brokers
Either way, you never type a trade in.
Trade record
What a forex trading journal should hold — and who fills it in
Ask forex traders what a journal should record and the list barely changes: the pair, buy or sell, lot size, entry and exit, the stop, the target, the result, and what was going through their head. Connect your account and TradeBB fills in all of it except the last part.
Arrives on its own
- Pair or symbol — EUR/USD, GBP/JPY, gold, indices
- Buy or sell, and lot size — exactly as the trade was placed
- Entry, exit and times — shown in your own time zone
- Stop loss and take profit — the levels set on the trade
- Commission and swap — so the result is what your account got
- Pips — won or lost, on every currency pair trade
You add
- The setup — which strategy this trade belonged to
- What you noticed — a tag: news, moved stop, revenge trade
- A note and a rating — a few lines and one to five stars
The first list is your forex trading log. The second is the reason — and it's the part only you can write.
Risk-reward
The risk-reward you planned, next to the one you got
Because the stop and target come in with every trade, TradeBB can put the risk-reward they set up next to what your exit actually delivered. Your win rate is still there. This is the number underneath it.
- Planned risk-reward — what your stops and targets set up, on average
- What you actually got — what your exits delivered against the same risk
- Rate how you took it — one to five stars, then sort by it
Aiming for 2 to 1 and averaging 0.9 isn't bad luck. It's a habit — and now you can see it.
Swap
The cost most forex journals leave out
Hold a position overnight and you pay or earn swap — the broker's charge for carrying it. Hold it over a Wednesday and it usually triples. Hold a carry trade for three weeks and it stops being a rounding error, which is why a spreadsheet says the trade made $180 and your account says less. TradeBB records swap as its own number, so net means net.
- Swap on every trade — recorded, totaled by day, counted in your costs
- Commission where your broker reports it — empty when it's built into the spread
- Net P&L everywhere — every report after commission and swap
- Pips next to money — a trade can win pips and still lose money
If you swing trade, hold gold overnight or trade exotics, this is the number that changes the answer.
Pairs & gold
Every pair — and gold — on one line
The Symbols report lists every instrument you've traded with its net result, win rate, how often you take it and how long you hold it. Gold sits beside EUR/USD and is measured the same way.
- Net of costs — after commission and swap, pair by pair
- Frequency next to profit — your busiest pair is rarely your best
- Hold time by pair — where you sit in trades too long
It's usually the pair you trade out of habit that has quietly lost money all year. Checking one trade before you take it? Use the forex profit calculator or the XAUUSD lot size calculator.
Sessions
Find out which session you actually trade well
London, New York, Tokyo, the overlap — most forex traders have a view on when they trade best. Very few have checked. MetaTrader shows your trades in your broker's server time; TradeBB shows them in yours, broken down by the clock.
- Win rate by hour — where your trades cluster, and where they pay
- P&L by time of day — the session laid out hour by hour
- Filter by entry time or weekday — test a hunch in ten seconds
- Your clock, not the server's — set your time zone once
Often it's one or two hours paying for the rest. Now you'll know which ones.
Accounts
Your own account and the funded one, side by side
A personal account, a second broker, a funded prop firm account — forex traders rarely have just one. TradeBB keeps each as its own account and keeps the math honest across them.
- One account per login — each MT4, MT5 or cTrader account imports separately
- Deposits stay out of P&L — topping up never reads as a winning week
- Drawdown per account — trade by trade and as a daily curve
- Compare or isolate — all accounts together, or filter down to one
For evaluation and funded accounts in detail, see the prop firm trading journal.
Notes & tags
Write down the trade while you still remember it
Every trade and every day has a notes editor with reusable templates, so you answer the same questions each time instead of facing a blank box.
- Tag the behavior — entered before news, moved the stop, sized up after a loss
- See what each tag cost — totaled across your whole history
- A finite list — filter to unjournaled trades, work through them, done
The difference between a trading journal you keep and one you abandon in week three is that the trade is already waiting for you.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What should a forex trading journal include?
For every trade: the pair, buy or sell, lot size, entry and exit with times, stop loss and take profit, commission, swap and the net result — plus the setup you took, what you noticed and a short note. With a connected account, TradeBB fills in everything up to the net result; the rest is yours.
Does TradeBB connect to MT4 and MT5, or do I upload files?
MT4, MT5 and cTrader connect read-only and sync automatically. Most MetaTrader brokers work because the connection is made by server name. Anything else comes in as a trade history file. Setup steps are on the MT4 and MT5 pages.
Which password should I use?
Your investor (read-only) password. TradeBB only reads your history, so there's no reason to hand over more than that.
Is TradeBB's forex sync live?
Not tick by tick. Connected accounts sync automatically, you can sync any of them by hand, and each shows a Last Update time. There's nothing to export or upload.
Does TradeBB count swap and commissions?
Yes. Swap, commissions and fees are recorded where your broker reports them, and every result is shown net of them. If your broker builds commission into the spread, the commission column is empty because there was none to record.
Does TradeBB know which forex session a trade was in?
TradeBB shows your results by hour of the day in your own time zone. It doesn't label hours as London or New York — you'll recognize them.
Can I track a prop firm or funded account?
Yes. Add it as its own account and review it alone or beside your personal one, including drawdown per account.
Does TradeBB show pips?
Yes, for currency pairs. Each trade's detail shows the pips it won or lost, next to the net result after commission and swap. Gold and indices are measured in money.
How is TradeBB different from Myfxbook?
Myfxbook is built to show how an account is performing and to share a verified track record publicly. TradeBB is built for reviewing your own trades: a note, tags and a rating on each one, results by setup, hour and pair, and stock and futures accounts alongside forex. If you need a public, verified track record, that's Myfxbook's job — TradeBB doesn't publish one.
Connect your account. Let the journal fill itself in.
Next month you'll know which session to sit out, which pair to drop, and whether your stops are where you meant them to be.