Built an options trade journal because I was tired of subscription fees for something this simple
Been trading options for a while now, and I kept hearing the same advice everywhere: "journal your trades." Every journal app I looked at wanted $20-30/month, which felt insane for what's basically a glorified spreadsheet with some charts.
So I decided to build my own. No coding background — just got fed up enough to learn.
What it does so far:
- Log trades (shares, calls, puts, spreads, covered calls, CSPs) with proper P/L math for each type
- Calendar view color-coded green/red by daily P/L, tap any day to see what happened
- Stats broken down by Daily/Weekly/Monthly/YTD — win rate, R-multiple, win/loss streaks, equity curve
- Tag trades by setup or mistake so you can actually see patterns (which setups you overtrade, which mistakes keep costing you)
- Open positions tracked separately until you close them
- Multiple journals if you want to separate strategies or accounts
The plan is one-time purchase instead of a subscription — pay once, own it. Still building it out (multi-journal support, goals/rules tracking, CSV import are in progress), but wanted to start sharing progress since a lot of you probably have the same "why am I paying monthly for this" gripe I did.
Not live yet, but getting close. Happy to hear what you'd actually want in something like this — trying to build it for people just starting to take journaling seriously, not compete feature-for-feature with the established ones.