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A trading journal that reads your Alpaca export
Alpaca accounts are usually run by code, which means high fill counts and clean, consistent column names - the easiest kind of file to import and the hardest kind of trading to review, because an automated strategy produces far too many rows to read. The breakdowns by hour, setup and hold time are the only practical way through.
How the import actually works
Export your trade history from Alpaca as a CSV and drop it into the journal. There is no template to fill in first.
The mapper reads the header row and matches your broker's column names against the ones it knows - date, symbol, side, qty, price, fees and a realised P/L column under any of a dozen spellings, from P/L to Realized PnL to Net Profit. Where a column is named something it has not seen, you pick it once from a dropdown and it remembers that file shape for next time.
It also works out what kind of instrument the file holds from the symbols themselves, so the right contract maths is applied without you configuring anything. If it guesses wrong, there is a row of buttons at the top of the import screen to correct it.
Rows that are not trades - transfers, dividends, interest, fees charged to the account - are skipped rather than logged as mystery positions.
Scale-ins and scale-outs become one trade
Exports list fills. If you built a position over three buys and exited over two sells, that is five rows describing one decision. Paired first in, first out, they become one round trip: one average entry, one average exit, the full fee total, and a single P/L.
Anything still open at the end of the file is left out rather than logged as a half-trade, and transfers, dividends and interest rows are skipped.
Results measured in R, not just dollars
If you trade 1,000 shares one day and 100 the next, comparing results in dollars tells you about position size, not about the trade. Every trade is also expressed in R - multiples of the risk you planned on it - so a $600 win on a $300 plan is +2R whatever the share count was.
That single change is what makes a setup comparison honest. The setup most traders believe is their best is usually just the one they size up on.
Questions
Will it cope with thousands of fills?
Yes. There is no trade limit, and fills are paired into round trips so a thousand fills become a readable number of trades.
Can I tag strategies rather than setups?
Yes - the setup field takes any label. For automated trading, use the strategy name and the breakdowns will compare them against each other.
Is it free?
Yes. Unlimited trades, CSV import, the full dashboard, entry and exit screenshots, trade replay and PDF reports are free with no card. AI coaching, AI agents and automatic broker sync are on paid plans.
Do I have to give you my broker password?
No. CSV import needs nothing but the file. Automatic sync on paid plans goes through SnapTrade or the broker's own API, which use read-only connections - the journal can never place a trade.
Import yesterday's session
Export it from Alpaca, drop the CSV in, tag the setups, and open the hour-of-day breakdown. That one chart is where most traders find their leak.