Trade Journal 1.0.0

Trade Journal 1.0.0 — the first public build.

A trading journal that runs on your own PC. It reads closed positions straight
out of the MetaTrader 5 terminal on the same machine, so the journal fills
itself, and adds the parts a discretionary trader works in: a watchlist with
context grading, E1/E2/E3 entry planning, a playbook, a routine, edge analytics,
reports and a strategy backtester.

There is no account, no server and no network dependency. Your database is a
single SQLite file inside your own Windows profile, and the only thing the app
ever talks to is the MetaTrader terminal running beside it on 127.0.0.1.

Install

Download Trade-Journal-Setup-1.0.0.exe and run it. It installs into your user
profile and needs no administrator rights.

Windows SmartScreen will warn that the publisher is unknown, because the
installer is not code-signed. Choose More info → Run anyway.

What	Where
Database and user data	%APPDATA%\Trade Journal\
Logs	%APPDATA%\Trade Journal\logs\

User data lives outside the install directory and survives both uninstall and
upgrade.

Connect MetaTrader 5

Open Settings → MetaTrader, paste the terminal's MCP access token, and press
Test connection. Then tick Import closed trades automatically and press
Sync now for the first backfill. The terminal must be running and logged in.

The connection is read-only: Trade Journal places no orders and modifies nothing.

Full documentation is in the repository README.

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Requires Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Trade Journal is a record-keeping and
analysis tool — it does not give financial advice, place orders, or manage
money, and trading carries a risk of loss.