Your closed trades still have something to say
Every trade your EA closes gets read, measured, and written up — how far price ran against you, how far it ran your way, and what that pattern says. You get the reading, not another dashboard to interpret.
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You closed with 61% of the favourable move on average, while losing trades ran to 38% of their worst point before you cut them. The stop distance that would have covered most of those losses is 87 points — you are running 114.
What a trading journal actually is
Your broker shows you a list of closed orders — what happened, one line at a time. It does not tell you what keeps happening.
A trading journal is that same history kept in a form you can put questions to: which hour of the day costs you money, whether your stop sits in the wrong place, how often you close a winner early. The answers are already inside your trade history. A journal is what makes them readable.
The catch has always been the work. A journal you fill in by hand is a spreadsheet you stop updating in three weeks. Journex is filled in by the EA, trade by trade, without you typing anything.
Which hour of the day do I lose money in?
Is my stop in the right place?
How much of a winning move do I actually keep?
Which pair is quietly carrying the account?
Figures above are an example of the shape of an answer, not a result Journex promises. What you see comes from your own closed trades.
The same trades, with the parts MT5 leaves out
Open the History tab in MT5 and you get a row per order: symbol, volume, price, profit. Journex starts from the same data your terminal has — and keeps the parts the terminal drops.
Where a figure cannot be measured, Journex leaves it blank. It never fills the gap with a zero — a zero you cannot trust is worse than an empty cell, because you would act on it.
Your broker records where you got in and out. Not what happened between.
Two trades can close on exactly the same profit and be nothing alike. One drifted straight to target. The other sat forty points underwater for an hour first, then came back. Your statement prints the same number for both.
MAE is the furthest price moved against you before you closed. MFE is the furthest it moved in your favour. Journex measures both on every trade, from the high and low the EA reports while the position is open — figures MT5 stops keeping the moment the order is gone.
Open any trade and you get the whole thing on one price scale: where you got in, where you got out, how far it went each way, and where your stop and target sat relative to all of it.
- Is my stop where price actually goes?The distance that would have covered most of your losses, against the distance you are running now.
- Am I closing winners too early?How much of the favourable move you keep — per trade, and as a habit across the account.
- What reward-to-risk did I really get?Measured from what price did, not from the stop and target you typed in when you opened.
One thing it deliberately does not draw: a price path. Journex knows how far price went, not when it got there — so it leaves the points unconnected rather than inventing an order it never measured.
See a good week next to a flat month
One combined equity curve can hide a lot — a strong week sitting right next to three flat ones, or a single bad day dragging an otherwise decent month lower. Journex lays every day, week and month out as its own small card, so the pattern is visible before you click into anything.
Numbers on this mock are an example of the layout, not a result Journex promises. In the real dashboard, clicking any card opens the full detail for that period.
Every page ends with a plain answer
Journex measures your history, then tells you what it found in a sentence or two — on every screen, in words, not just charts. So the time you spend here goes on deciding what to do, not on working out what the numbers mean.
Those sentences are written by a language model that is only allowed to describe figures Journex has already computed — never to calculate its own.
Automatic trade capture
The EA sends each trade the moment it closes — entry, exit, SL, TP, duration, and the highest and lowest price reached while the position was open. Nothing to import, nothing to type.
Dashboard and daily read
Net profit, win rate, profit factor, max drawdown and trading cost, with the equity curve, month-by-month P&L, a long-versus-short split and an hourly heatmap — closed with a written summary of the session that just ended.
Performance summary
Day, week and month as their own equity-curve cards side by side, not one chart you have to squint at — see a strong day next to a flat week at a glance, then click any card for the full breakdown.
MAE / MFE analysis
How far price moved against you before coming back, and how far it ran in your favour before you closed — with a written read on whether your stop sits too tight or your target too far, and a suggested distance drawn from your own losses.
Symbol breakdown
Which pair carries the account and which one drags it, per-symbol win rate and profit factor, an hourly heatmap by market session — and a line telling you which of those actually matters right now.
Portfolio concentration
Pairs you tend to hold at the same time, measured from the real overlap in your own trade times rather than a textbook correlation table. Two positions that always move together are one position at twice the size.
EA tuning suggestions
Your EA's current settings against what your own history shows, explained in words rather than left as a table to decode. Filter by magic number when you run more than one.
Custom challenge tracker
Enter the rules you have to trade under — daily loss, total loss, profit target, minimum days — and watch the headroom left on each one, plus the days that came closest to breaching one.
Multiple accounts
Keep demo, live and challenge accounts separate, and compare them side by side. Switch between them from the top bar without losing your filters.
How much should this trade risk?
Most journals record the size you chose. They have no opinion on whether it was the right one.
Journex runs the Kelly criterion across your own history on each symbol — your win rate, your average win against your average loss — and gives you the ceiling the maths puts on risk per trade. It is a risk figure before it is a growth figure: size above that ceiling and a strategy with a genuine edge can still take the account down, because the losing streaks arrive long before the maths has time to work.
What Journex puts in front of you is half-Kelly. Full Kelly sits on the same card as a theoretical number, labelled as something not to run live — it is the level where an ordinary run of losses turns into a drawdown most people cannot sit through.
The number only appears once a symbol has twenty closed trades behind it. If your average loss outweighs your average win, the card says so in plain words instead of printing a figure you should not act on.
Computed from your own closed trades. It describes what your history implies about sizing — not what the market will do next, and not a recommendation to take any particular trade. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Shown once the symbol has 20+ closed trades and a positive edge.
Set your own rules, let it count for you
Enter the limits you have to trade under — daily loss, total loss, profit target, minimum trading days. Journex counts them from your real trades and shows the headroom left on each, plus the days that came closest to breaching one.
Counted from your own trade history, not a forecast. Journex is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any challenge provider.
Four steps, then it runs itself
No spreadsheets, no CSV uploads, no logging trades by hand. And no trading account password — ever.
- 1
Create an account
Add your trading account and Journex gives it a token of its own. One token per MT5 terminal — nothing to configure beyond that.
- 2
Drop the EA into MT5
Download the EA file and save it to MQL5 → Experts (MT5 → File → Open Data Folder), then refresh the Navigator panel.
JournexTracker_v1.7.1.ex5 - 3
Allow the connection once
Tools → Options → Expert Advisors → tick “Allow WebRequest for listed URL” and add the server address shown on your account page.
- 4
Attach it and paste the URL + token
Drag the EA onto any chart — any symbol, any timeframe — and paste the URL into InpWebhookURL and your token into InpWebhookToken. Trades start arriving as soon as the first one closes.
Everything is free during beta
These are the plans Journex will launch with. While the beta runs, every account gets Pro — the prices below are what they will cost later.
- 1 trading account
- 100 trades per month
- Dashboard and trade log
- 5 trading accounts
- Unlimited trades
- MAE / MFE analysis
- 25 trading accounts
- Compare accounts side by side
- Everything in Pro
No card is collected during beta. When paid plans open, nothing is charged unless you pick a plan yourself. Full plan details and FAQ →
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