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Tradelyst vs Edgewonk, Tradervue, TradeZella, Chartlog
Honest, no-marketing-fluff side-by-side. Tradelyst leads on prop-firm survival features (live drawdown floor, cycle phases, payout tracking); the others have years more polish on the general-journal side. Both can be true. Updated 2026-05-26.
Feature
Tradelyst
Germany 🇩🇪 · 2025
€19–49/mo · €399 lifetime · EUR/USD
Edgewonk
Germany 🇩🇪 · 2015
One-time license · ~€169
Tradervue
USA 🇺🇸 · 2011
$0–$59/mo · USD only
TradeZella
USA 🇺🇸 · 2022
$24–$48/mo · USD only
Chartlog
USA 🇺🇸 · 2020
$15–$40/mo · USD only
Prop-firm support
Live drawdown floor & cushion
Refreshed from the broker, not estimated from logged trades. Tells you in real time how close you are to the firm's trailing-DD enforcement line.
Live for Tradovate; manual accounts use computed P&L.
Daily DD limit display, but no trailing-floor floor calculation.
Cycle phases (eval / funded / blown / cashed-out)
Per-account phase machine matching how prop firms actually structure evaluations + funded accounts.
Payout logging + YTD total
Log each prop-firm payout with date + amount + notes. Card surfaces the YTD total and the cycle-since-last-payout count.
Multi-account at-a-glance hero
Total net liq across every account, YTD payouts as one number, phase breakdown, per-account DD cushion bars. Built for traders running 3+ prop accounts.
Manual multi-account but no live hero strip.
Account separation supported; no prop-firm aggregate.
Account view available; no prop-firm aggregate.
Account separation supported; no aggregate hero.
Broker integrations
Tradovate auto-import
Native OAuth (live), not "upload a CSV from Tradovate" — fills arrive within minutes of close.
Native OAuth — multiple Tradovate logins per user.
CSV import only — no live API.
CSV import only — no live API.
CSV import only — no live API.
NinjaTrader
CSV today; NinjaTrader vendor program in progress.
CSV import only — no live API.
CSV import only — no live API.
CSV import only — no live API.
CSV import only — no live API.
TradingView (webhook)
Webhook ingest: TV strategy alerts post directly into the journal.
CSV / Excel import
Charts & replay
Per-trade chart with entry/stop/exit overlay
Trade replay view; chart overlay less detailed than per-trade-chart competitors.
Bar-by-bar replay
Walk forward through the price action one bar at a time — same chart, switch timeframes mid-replay, sub-minute on the highest tier.
1m+ on all tiers; sub-minute (1s) on Elite.
Static chart replay only — no timeframe switching mid-replay.
Local backtest-data store
Bars cached locally (Databento under the hood). Sub-200ms loads, no broker iframe rate-limiting your review session.
NQ, ES, MNQ, MES, GC, MGC backed by Databento.
AI features
AI post-trade review
Heuristic on routine trades, GPT-5 on outliers — saves tokens.
Available on the higher tier.
Playbook-style AI insights bundled with the product.
AI morning brief
Daily pre-market brief delivered to your inbox: yesterday's patterns + week trend + a question to anchor today.
AI grounded in your structured facts
Every AI output traces back to a number in your database — fact extractors first, prompt second. Limits hallucinations to commentary, not data.
Fact extractors → prompt; outputs trace to DB rows.
Public docs don't specify the grounding approach.
Public docs don't specify the grounding approach.
Deterministic AI fallback
When the LLM is offline / over-budget, the same feature renders from a template + your facts. You never see a blank screen because OpenAI is down.
Template-based; same output structure, less polished prose.
Bring-your-own API key (BYO)
Use your own OpenAI key to bypass the monthly AI cap and have direct control over your prompts. Encrypted at rest.
Elite tier — encrypted at rest, used only at request time.
Hosting & compliance
GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted
For European traders: data lives in the EU under German data-protection law, no US transfer for the core stack.
German vendor; EU-hosted; explicit privacy mode.
US-hosted; GDPR-compliant via SCCs.
US-hosted; GDPR-compliant via SCCs.
US-hosted; GDPR-compliant via SCCs.
Full data export
Download every trade, setup, rule, AI review, and morning brief as structured files. No lock-in.
Export format not publicly documented.
UI in EN + DE
EN + DE.
EN + DE.
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Tradelyst vs Edgewonk
Germany 🇩🇪 · 2015
Manual journaling + simulator. Veteran product, deep classical analytics.
Tradelyst vs Tradervue
USA 🇺🇸 · 2011
Long-running multi-asset journal with social sharing and recent AI commentary.
Tradelyst vs TradeZella
USA 🇺🇸 · 2022
Modern, fast-growing journal with playbook + auto-import for popular brokers.
Tradelyst vs Chartlog
USA 🇺🇸 · 2020
Equities-focused journal with strong per-trade chart overlays.
Built for prop traders. Try it free.
Invite-only beta — free for the founder cohort. Bring your fills (CSV / Tradovate OAuth / Excel), we'll show you what your edge actually is.