Journal
The Journal turns your actual fills into a reviewable trading record: a P&L calendar, per-trade detail, tagging and notes, and performance breakdowns. It reads executions from your connected accounts on both brokers, so NinjaTrader 8 and Tradovate trades sit in the same journal and the same statistics.
You reach it from Journal in the sidebar. It has four pages.
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Journal | The month calendar. Daily P&L, trade count and win/loss per day, with weekly totals. Click any day or week for a detail modal with the trade list, charts, and notes. |
| Analytics | Performance breakdown by period: trade stats, risk and execution cards, equity curve, MAE against MFE, and per-symbol performance. |
| Insights | Edge analysis and coaching, oriented around passing an evaluation. Edge Score, Win Quality, Consistency and Risk Control gauges, plus a what-if simulator and prop eval tracker. |
| Econ Calendar | High-impact economic events, so you can see what was happening around a trade. |
One journal, both brokers
Fills from either broker are normalized into the same executions record and matched into trades by the same FIFO matcher. Everything downstream (notes, tags, account groups, Hide Sim) works the same regardless of where a fill came from, and an ES trade journaled from NinjaTrader buckets into the same instrument as one journaled from Tradovate.
How the fills actually arrive differs by broker, and the Tradovate path has a constraint worth understanding before you rely on it. See Importing Trades.
Tagging and notes
Trades can be tagged with a strategy, and with manual tags across setup, session, mistake, and discipline categories. Both trade-level and daily notes save with the day, so a review written weeks later still has the reasoning attached.
This is what makes Analytics and Insights useful. With strategies and setups tagged, the performance breakdown can tell you which of them is actually carrying your account rather than just reporting a total.
If the numbers look wrong
Four settings change what the Journal shows without changing a single trade: which accounts are selected, whether Sim accounts are hidden, your time zone, and how a "day" is defined. Two of those move trades between days. Check them first. See Journal Settings.
Related
- Manage Accounts - account visibility, nicknames, and the Live/Sim tags the Journal reads
- Account Manager - daily P&L thresholds and risk monitors
- Tradovate Account Manager - the Tradovate side of monitors