Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What are the playbook setups available to Premium users?

Once you find trade tag combos that have edge through your dashboard, you can group them together. You simply pick the winning tag combos in the playbook section and name it. When you are live tagging - More specifically tagging before a trade, if you put in the right combo of tags the playbook name will pop up. This quickly lets you know you have a playbook setup on hand, which gives you the confidence to take the trade.

To see the playbook tutorial, click here

What’s real-time stats available to Premium users?

When you are live tagging you can quickly click a button to calculate the statistics on your tag combos before entering a trade. This can potentially keep you out of bad trades, or tell you if there’s edge with your current combination of tags. The stats displayed are:

• Number of trades
• Win%
• Average trade P&L
• Cumulative P&L

To see the real-time stats tutorial, click here

What platforms are supported?

We are always willing to add new platforms. Get in touch with us if you want a platform added. This is the current list:

• Jigsaw Journaltyx
• Sierra Charts
• TopstepX
• Ninjatrader
• Tradovate
• Quantower
• Rithmic (R-Trader)
• TradingView

Do trades come into the journal real time?

At the current moment real-time trades are supported only for users who are using Rithmic as their data provider.

If you have Rithmic data you can use any platform with Rithmic data. We have a tutorial that explains what you need to do here

Most online props or combines use Rithmic data. Therefore the Trade Craft journal - if setup properly is great for real time trade updates when trading online prop.

If your data or platform is not supported, you can still do real time trades using “dummy trades” then import you P&L later. It will seamlessly mesh with your Trade Craft journal’s tags. Check out the tutorial here

Why do I need to tag my trades?

The statistics your P&L provides, are very generic. In fact most journals provide broad statistics that don’t truly help you find statistical edge. Your trading identity is unique. Therefore you need unique statistics. For example: are you better at “scalping” or “holding” a trade?

These are statistics a P&L nor a journal can tell you. They’re not smart enough to know what your trading system or plan is. Only you can know that. So therefore you need to generate your own statistics around “scalping” and “holding” by creating tags.

After a large enough sample size you may think you are a good “holding” trader but the statistics will say otherwise and show you, that there maybe more edge with “scalping” and you are losing on “holding” trades.

Now you have a level of clarity on what you should be doing more of. General statistic generated through P&L will not tell you this information. Therefore you can’t make educated adjustments to improve in your trading as quickly.

Consistently tagging trades is record keeping. Trading is a business and it’s important to know how you’re performing. A lot of traders have no clue and just guess. Therefore they flounder for years never making real progress.

There’s certain features I don’t see with Trade Craft, can you add them?

We have a ton of ideas and features we will be adding in future updates. To see what they are check out our roadmap section here

If you do not see a feature, join our discord and let us know in the “feature-request” section. We have taken ideas from the community and will continue to do so.