about wicknote

a local-first trade journal for discretionary futures and prop-firm traders

wicknote is a quick-capture trade journal built for discretionary futures traders — people grinding evals and funded accounts on instruments like MNQ, NQ, and ES. You log a trade while it's still fresh: the direction, outcome, points, what you saw, how you felt. Then you revisit it. The journal is entirely local — your trade history lives on your machine, not on our servers.

the problem with how most traders review trades

Most broker-connected review tools tell you what happened. Your broker shows your fills, your P&L, your win rate. What it doesn't show you is why you took that trade in the first place — or why you sized up right before a loss, or why revenge trades always look the same in hindsight.

Behavior is the variable most traders can't see. Not because the data isn't there, but because it's inside your head at the moment you click. No auto-import tool captures that. The only way to see it is to write it down — at the time, in your own words, before you rationalize it away.

That's the gap wicknote is built for. Not analytics. Not auto-import. A place to capture the story behind the trade while it's still raw.

the capture loop is the product

The loop is simple: capture → review → see patterns → trade better. You log a trade right after you close it — paste a chart screenshot, type a few words about why you got in, how it went, what your headspace was. Thirty seconds. Then you keep trading.

Later — end of day, end of week — you open the journal and look at what you've accumulated. You start to see things. You revenge-traded after that one loss three weeks in a row. You always oversize when you're tired. Your best tags have a common thread. The patterns are there; the journal just makes them visible.

Keeping that loop running is what the subscription is for. Wicknote doesn't teach you to trade. It builds a mirror that you actually look at.

your data is yours

wicknote is local-first by design. Your trade journal, screenshots, tags, notes, and trade history are stored on your machine — not uploaded to our servers. The only things we hold on our end are your account email address and your subscription status, which is the minimum required to run a paid product. Nothing about your trades ever leaves your device.

You can export your full journal at any time. If you ever cancel, your local data stays exactly where it is — we don't delete it, and we can't, because we never had it.