Manual trading journal

Build discipline, review your trades, and understand your decisions.

Lone Wolf Journal is a simple trading journal for traders who want more than statistics. It helps you record the reason behind each trade, review screenshots, grade setups, and improve the decision-making process behind your strategy.

How it works

From one trade to a clear pattern

Record the trade, write down why you took it, review the day, and let the Dashboard show what keeps repeating.

Symbol
NAS100
Type
LONG
Grade
A+
Action
TP Hit
P&L
+$420
Account
Prop 50K

Reason

Waited for the London open. Price swept the Asian low and reclaimed it, so I entered on the retest with the stop under the sweep.

Expectation

A move to the previous day high. Felt calm, no rush to get in.

I followed my trading rules

Screenshots

Wednesday, 28 October

Trades
2
Net result
+$310
Rules followed
2 / 2

Summary

A patient morning. The A+ setup paid, the second trade was only a B so I cut it early. Tomorrow: no trades before the open.

Win rate
62%
Net this month
+$1,240
Long / short P&L
+$1,020 / +$220

Built for honest reviews

Everything a manual journal needs

Setup grades

Grade every setup from A++ to B and see which grades actually pay.

How grading works

Trading rules

Keep your rules on the Dashboard and mark every trade as followed or broken.

Set up your rules

Trading calendar

See every trading day at a glance, then open a day to review its trades in the journal.

Explore the Dashboard

Daily summary

Close each session with a few lines on what went well and what to fix.

Write a daily summary

Your results show what happened. Your journal should tell you why.

Look beyond profit and loss.

Lone Wolf Journal helps you look beyond profit and loss. Record your decisions, emotions, setups, and mistakes — then use them to become a more disciplined trader.

Beta access

Your Trading Journal. Free During Beta.

Join Lone Wolf Journal's free beta, track your trades, improve your trading discipline, and help shape a better trading journal. No credit card required.

Be an early trader. Help build something better. Your feedback helps shape the future of Lone Wolf Journal.

Beta access

Become a beta tester

Lone Wolf Journal is still under development. Soon we will need beta testers. If you are interested, leave your name and email address, and we will contact you when the beta becomes active.

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Why I built a manual trading journal

Lone Wolf Journal was built from my own need to understand not just whether a trade won or lost, but why I made the decision in the first place. It is designed to turn every trade into a lesson and every review into a step toward greater discipline.

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