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Tradelyst vs TradeZella

Built around prop-firm survival: live drawdown cushion, cycle phases, payouts. vs Modern, fast-growing journal with playbook + auto-import for popular brokers.. Two-column feature table, honest summary of where each one wins, no manipulation.

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Feature
Tradelyst
Germany 🇩🇪 · 2025
€19–49/mo · €399 lifetime · EUR/USD
TradeZella
USA 🇺🇸 · 2022
$24–$48/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.
Account view available; no prop-firm aggregate.
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.
NinjaTrader
CSV today; NinjaTrader vendor program in progress.
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
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.
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.
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.
Full data export
Download every trade, setup, rule, AI review, and morning brief as structured files. No lock-in.
UI in EN + DE
EN + DE.
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Where TradeZella wins

TradeZella has slick UI, strong stock-day-trader auto-imports, and a popular playbook feature. If you trade US equities heavily and don't need prop-firm-cycle math, it's a strong pick and the design polish is genuinely ahead of where Tradelyst is today.

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Where Tradelyst wins

Live drawdown floor tracking, prop-firm cycle phase machine (eval → funded → blown → cashed-out), per-cycle profit target progress + payout logging, and multi-account hero strip with phase-and-cushion at a glance. None of the others tracks the prop-firm lifecycle natively. Bonus: native Tradovate OAuth (no CSV juggling), TradingView webhook ingest, GDPR-compliant EU hosting, EN + DE UI, and an AI layer that's grounded in your own structured facts with a deterministic heuristic fallback when the model is offline.

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