Tradervue Review: The Reports That Make a Journal Worth Paying For, the Plans, and Who It Suits

A trading journal is the cheapest edge there is and the one most traders skip, because a log of trades on its own teaches very little. What makes a journal worth paying for is the reports — which setups, which hours, which exits — and Tradervue has had the deepest reports in the category for years. This review covers what it does, the three plans, the exit analysis that justifies Gold, imports for stock and futures traders, its weaknesses, and how it compares with TradeZella.

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What is Tradervue?

Tradervue is a web-based trading journal: you import your executions from a broker or platform, it rebuilds them into trades, charts each one, and turns the history into reports — by setup, symbol, time of day, day of week, holding time, side and size. It is one of the oldest journals still in active development, built originally for US stock day traders, and it now handles options, futures and forex as well, with imports from more than 80 brokers and platforms. Its strength has always been reporting depth; its 2024 redesign brought the interface up to date.

This review is for the trader deciding whether to journal at all, and for the one choosing between Tradervue, TradeZella and a spreadsheet. It covers what the journal does, the three plans, the reports that justify paying, imports, where it is weak, and a picker. The trading journal guide covers why and how to journal; this page is about the tool. Prices were checked in August–September 2026.

What is the verdict on Tradervue?

Rating: 4.3 / 5. The deepest reporting of any mainstream trading journal at its price, a reliable importer, an exit-analysis module that changes how traders set targets, and a free plan that is enough to start. Loses points for being web-only (no desktop or mobile app), for a dashboard that overwhelms at first, for weak crypto support, and for lacking the playbook and replay features newer journals sell.

Best for: active stock, futures and forex traders who want to know which setups and which hours make money, and are willing to tag trades. Not for: crypto-first traders, traders who want a phone app, and traders who want a coaching-style interface rather than reports.

What does Tradervue do?

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• Import. Executions from 80+ brokers and platforms — Interactive Brokers, Schwab, Fidelity, NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradeStation, MetaTrader and others — by file or sync. Partial fills are reassembled into trades.
• Trade pages. Each trade with its executions, a chart with entries and exits marked, P&L, notes and tags.
• Dashboard and calendar. Cumulative P&L, win rate, average win and loss, and daily results.
• Reports. Performance broken down by tag, symbol, price, volume, time, day, duration, side and position size — the part that turns a log into decisions.
• Exit analysis and risk (Gold). MFE and MAE — how far trades went for and against you — and what different exit rules would have produced; risk tracking by initial stop; liquidity and commission reports.
• Sharing and community. Share a trade or give a mentor read-only access to your journal; a community board of shared trades.

What does each Tradervue plan include?

Silver is the plan most traders need: unlimited trades and the reports. Gold is worth its extra $20 a month for one reason — exit analysis. Seeing that your average winner ran another 1.4R after you closed it, or that your stop was hit by an average of 3 ticks on trades that then went to target, changes trading in a way no other report does. The annual plans save 10% (Silver) and 20% (Gold). The TradeZella review covers the main competitor and the AI journal guide the newer tools.

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What does a trade look like inside Tradervue?

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Every trade keeps its executions — the buys and sells, with times, prices and the running position — and that is what makes the analysis honest. A trade entered once and exited in three pieces is shown as three exits, and the exit report can then ask whether the first partial helped. For a Smart Money trader who takes half at the first liquidity pool and trails the rest, this answers the question the take-profit lesson poses: would you have made more by holding the whole position, or by taking it all at the first target?

How do imports work for prop-firm accounts?

For stock traders, broker sync is the easy part. Futures and prop-firm traders usually import from the platform: NinjaTrader and Tradovate exports work, and so do the platform exports of most futures prop firms, because the account is a Tradovate, CQG or Rithmic account underneath. Journaling an evaluation and the funded account in the same Tradervue account, tagged by stage, is the cleanest way to see whether you trade differently once real payouts are involved — which most traders do. The prop firm strategy guide explains what to look for.

Where is Tradervue weak?

• Web only. No desktop or mobile app; review happens at a computer.
• First impression. The dashboard and report filters overwhelm new users; the value comes after a few weeks of tagging.
• Crypto. Limited import support compared with crypto-first journals.
• No playbooks or replay. TradeZella and newer tools sell structured playbooks and candle-by-candle replay; Tradervue is reports first.
• Tagging discipline. The setup reports are only as good as your tags; untagged trades produce untidy reports.

How does Tradervue compare with other journals?

Journal plan picker

Enter your trades per month, what you trade, what you most need from a journal and how you would pay. The picker names the plan — or a different journal — and the cost per trade.

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Worked example: what three months of Silver showed

A futures trader tags every trade by setup — London sweep, New York reversal, continuation — and by session. After 180 trades the setup report shows the London sweep at +0.62R per trade, the New York reversal at +0.41R, and continuation entries at −0.18R. The time report shows that every trade opened after 11:00 UTC loses on average. Two changes follow: no continuation entries, and no new trades during London lunch. Nothing in the entry method changed; the journal removed the two losing habits. He upgrades to Gold for the exit analysis, which shows his runners give back a third of their peak before the trail is hit — the next thing to fix.

What mistakes do traders make with a journal?

• Importing without tagging. The reports group by tags; untagged trades teach nothing.
• Reading the dashboard and ignoring the reports. The P&L curve is the result; the reports are the reasons.
• Journaling only losing trades. The comparison is the point.
• Paying for Gold before 100 trades. Exit analysis needs a sample.
• Changing three things at once after a bad week. Change one rule, journal 50 trades, compare.

How do you journal a Smart Money method in Tradervue?

Tag each trade with the four things the method depends on — the session, the pool that was swept, whether displacement was present, and the entry reference (order block or fair value gap) — and Tradervue's reports will tell you which combinations pay. The chart analyzer score is a fifth tag worth adding: within 100 trades the report by score grade shows whether the C-grade setups you still take are costing you. Zeno marks the levels on confirmed candles, so the chart Tradervue stores is the chart you traded.