Forex traders have a few problems a stock journal ignores. You trade pairs, not shares, so a result in pips on one pair means something different on another. You may trade London on Monday and New York on Tuesday. And many of you trade through MetaTrader, which has its own export.
Here is what a forex journal should handle, and how the main ones fit.
What should a forex journal handle?
Your MetaTrader report. Most retail forex runs through MetaTrader. The journal should read its report, so you do not retype each trade.
Results you can compare across pairs. Pips differ in value from pair to pair, and dollars depend on your lot size. Results in R, counted in units of risk, let you put a EUR/USD trade next to a GBP/JPY trade. One R is the amount you risked on the trade. What is an R-multiple explains it in plain words.
The session. A setup can work in London and fall apart in New York. You want results split by session without building the split by hand.
Costs. Spread and swap eat into results, more so on a small account.
More than one account. If you run a challenge with a prop firm next to your own account, the journal should keep them apart.
How do the main journals fit a forex trader?
TradeZella lists connections to 500+ brokers and prop firms. It has three paid plans and no free one. See tradezella.com.
TradesViz lists forex among its markets, with auto-sync for many of its brokers and platforms. It has a free plan that lists stock assets only, so a forex trader needs a paid plan. See tradesviz.com.
TraderSync lists forex with stocks, options, futures and crypto, with sync from supported brokers and platforms, replay and an AI assistant. It lists a free trial. See tradersync.com.
Tradervue lists forex with stocks, options and futures, 80+ platform integrations and trades drawn on a chart. It has a free plan with a monthly limit on trades. See tradervue.com.
Edgewonk lists over 200 brokers for automated import, many reports, a Tiltmeter for emotional trades and one price for a year. See edgewonk.com.
EdgeFlow is built for futures, forex and crypto. Trades come in by hand or from a CSV file, including a MetaTrader 5 report. On each trade you tick the confluences you checked, in four parts: setup, market, entry and after entry. Edge Builder then counts which confluences, alone and together, came with winners, with the number of trades behind each answer. Pro is $45 a month or $378 a year, VAT included.
Prices and plans change, so check each site before you decide.
How do you choose?
Start with sync. If you do not want to import a file after each session, choose a journal that connects to your broker, and check your broker's exact name on its list.
Then decide what you want to learn. To learn why you won or lost, you need the things you checked before each entry, logged on every trade. EdgeFlow is built around counting those in combinations.
What does a forex trader log in EdgeFlow?
A forex trader might log that the daily chart trended up, that price came back to a level from the day before, that the entry candle closed strong, and whether the stop was moved. Those are examples. You write your own, for any style, and Flow can propose them from how you describe your trading, with you confirming each one.
After enough trades, the Data tab shows for each confluence how many trades had it, how many won and the average result in R. Trending or ranging market shows one split traders often log, and the trade counts that come with it.
The forex trading journal page shows what this looks like.
Questions people ask
Can I import my MetaTrader trades into EdgeFlow?
Yes. EdgeFlow reads a MetaTrader 5 report, a TopStep export, and a plain CSV file with a date, the prices and a buy or sell column. Your results come in. The confluences do not, so you tick them on each trade or start from your next one. There is no live connection to a broker.
Is there a free forex trading journal?
Tradervue lists a free plan, with a limit on trades. TradesViz lists a free plan that covers stocks only. A spreadsheet works too, and spreadsheet or app helps you decide. EdgeFlow is paid, and its demo runs on an example journal with no account.
When were these facts checked?
Checked on 29 October 2026 for TradeZella and TradesViz, and checked on 11 October 2026 for the others. If something is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.