Trading insights & updates

The P&L Calendar now shows weekly P&L summaries, a full year overview with a monthly bar chart, and expandable month cards — so you can see your trading patterns across time without leaving the screen.

The trading journal inside SpotTradeJournal has been completely rebuilt — with editable entries, a discipline score slider, a tag system, collapsible cards grouped by week, and a full analytics tab with streak tracking, word clouds, and a correlation between journaling and trading performance.

Plan Tracker is a new feature that brings your compound growth challenge inside SpotTradeJournal — with automatic compounding, workday-only scheduling, and a live chart showing your actual performance vs your projected goal.

SpotTradeJournal now has a dedicated Equity Curve page — a cumulative P&L chart with win/loss day markers, a drawdown chart, monthly P&L bars, and a full trade breakdown table. It's the clearest view yet of how your account has grown, where it peaked, and how deep your worst drawdowns actually were.

Profit factor is the one metric that tells you if your trading actually has an edge — more reliably than win rate alone. Here's what it is, how to calculate it, and what a good number looks like.

A complete step-by-step guide to exporting your Interactive Brokers trades as a .tlg file and importing them into SpotTradeJournal in under 2 minutes.