cTrader Trading Journal built for cTrader traders

Why cTrader traders need a dedicated journal

cTrader is the platform of choice for traders who care about execution: proper depth of market, level-II pricing, native VWAP, and a fills model that does not repaint. It is also the platform that most third-party journals ignore. They either don't support it at all, or they support it through half-broken CSV templates that lose your commissions and swap the moment a broker changes column order.

That is a problem, because cTrader is now the default for prop firms like FTMO, FundedNext, IC Markets Prop and a growing list of futures-style challenges. If you trade a funded cTrader account, you need a journal that reads cTrader natively — not a spreadsheet that pretends.

TradeLogic is built on the Spotware Open API. That means you connect once, authorise your broker account through cTrader's own OAuth screen, and every position from that moment on lives in your journal — with the exact numbers cTrader shows, down to the last cent of commission.

What native Spotware OAuth actually means for you

The Spotware Open API is the same interface cTrader Web and the mobile app use. When you connect a cTrader account to TradeLogic, you are not handing over passwords. You click through the standard Spotware consent screen, TradeLogic gets a scoped read-only token, and that token is what pulls your fills. You can revoke it in Spotware at any time and the sync stops immediately.

• Real fills, not deltas. We read the exact position events cTrader raises — open, partial close, full close, modify — so partial exits and pyramiding show up correctly.
• Commissions and swap included. cTrader's raw-spread pricing means commission is a real number. We record it per trade so your P&L is net, not gross.
• Multi-broker in one place. Connect Pepperstone, IC Markets, FxPro, Axi and any other cTrader broker. Each shows as its own account, all in one dashboard.
• Backfill on connect. The first sync pulls your recent history so your journal is not empty on day one.
• Live during the session. New closes appear within seconds. You can tag setups between trades, not on Sunday night.

The journal layer built on top

Raw cTrader fills are not a journal, they are a receipt book. TradeLogic turns them into a coaching tool by adding the context a spreadsheet cannot hold and cTrader does not track.

• Playbook tags per trade. London breakout, NY reversal, gold scalp, DAX open — measure expectancy per named strategy, not per pair.
• Screenshots and notes. Attach a TradingView chart to any position and search screenshots by tag later.
• Mistake picker. One-tap logging of FOMO, revenge, missed SL, overtrading — with a weekly report that surfaces the pattern hurting you most.
• R-multiple, MFE / MAE, expectancy. Full risk-adjusted stats calculated from your stop and target, per playbook and per session.
• AI review. Ask 'was this a chase or a real setup' and get a plain-English answer that uses your own rules.

cTrader + prop firms

cTrader has become a first-class platform for prop challenges. TradeLogic maps 12+ prop firm rulesets — including FTMO cTrader accounts, FundedNext, The5ers, FundingPips, MyFundedFX, E8, FTUK, Topstep, Apex, Alpha Futures, Tradeify and Lucid — to your live cTrader positions. You see, in real time, how much room you have on Daily Loss and Max Drawdown, plus alerts at 80% and 100% so you don't blow the challenge on a lunch-break trade.

Export, ownership, and leaving

Your cTrader history is yours. Export as CSV or PDF at any moment — including the tags, notes and screenshots you added on top. Downgrade or cancel and the data stays; you drop back to a free tier that still lets you read and export. No lock-in, no 'contact support to leave'.

How it works

1. 1

   Create a free account

   Email + password. No card, no trial timer.

2. 2

   Connect cTrader

   Click 'Add cTrader account'. Authorise on Spotware's OAuth screen. Backfill runs immediately.

3. 3

   Tag your playbooks

   Name your setups once. New fills auto-suggest a tag based on symbol and session.

4. 4

   Read the weekly report

   Which setups pay, which sessions bleed, which mistake costs the most this week.

Who this is for

TradeLogic vs the competition

Not every journal supports cTrader — and the ones that do often force you through fragile CSV imports. Here is how the four options compare on cTrader specifically.

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