FaceTheTrading journal app
The trading journal you don’t have to write.
FaceTheTrade is a video trading journal for iPhone. You talk while you trade. It records the trade, transcribes what you said, and helps you grade whether you followed your plan.
Try for free. Fully unlocked.
Why most trading journals get abandoned
Every trading coach says the same thing: keep a journal. And most traders try. The problem isn’t knowing it matters. It’s that the journal happens at the worst possible time.
The session ends. You’re tired. The last thing you want is to sit down and relive your worst trade in writing. So you skip it, or you write it an hour later, after the P&L has already edited the story. The forced entry becomes “I saw a setup.” The moved stop becomes “giving it room.”
A journal written from memory records what you wish you’d done.
A written journal
- Written after the session
- Reconstructed from memory
- Skipped on the days that matter most
- Blank space to fill every time
FaceTheTrade
- Captured during the trade
- Your words, timestamped as you said them
- Just as easy on a bad day as a good one
- A ready report to review and paste
How it works
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Start a recording when you sit down to trade.
Prop your iPhone up facing you. FaceTheTrade records video and audio of you, not your screen, for the length of the trade.
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Answer out loud: Entering, Feeling, Exiting.
Tap a prompt and say your setup, your stop, and how you feel right now. Saying your reasoning before you click helps expose whether you’re following your plan or trying to feel better.
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The moments that matter get marked for you.
Your voice prompts, heart-rate spikes from Apple Watch, and physical tells like leaning toward the screen or touching your face are dropped on the timeline, so you scrub straight to them.
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Review the tape and grade the trade A, B, or C.
Compare what you said you’d do with what you did. You choose the grade, based on process, not P&L. The optional AI coach can suggest one and ask the follow-up question you’d avoid asking yourself. How process grading works.
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Export the report into the journal you already keep.
Your transcript and grade become a text report you can paste into Notion, a spreadsheet, or a notebook. The habit stays yours; the hard part is done.
What it isn’t
FaceTheTrade is not a trade log. It doesn’t import fills, track P&L, or connect to your broker. Tools that do that are good at telling you what happened. FaceTheTrade is for why: the reasoning, the hesitation, and the moment you talked yourself into a trade you knew you shouldn’t take.
If you already keep a trade log or spreadsheet, keep it. Paste the FaceTheTrade report next to the numbers. It works with any market and any broker, because it records you, not your platform.
It’s also not a strategy course or a mindset app. It assumes you already know your setup. It’s built for the gap between knowing the rule and following it under pressure, which is where most funded-account and prop-challenge traders lose. More on that here.
Your face stays on your phone.
Recordings are stored on your device and auto-delete after 7 days unless you export them. You can turn on Face ID or passcode lock. The optional coach gets spoken text and summary heart-rate figures, never video or audio. Privacy policy.
Questions
Is FaceTheTrade a trade log?
No. It doesn’t track P&L, positions, or fills, and it doesn’t connect to your broker. It journals how you executed: what you said before, during, and after the trade, and whether you followed your own plan. Many traders keep their trade log and paste the FaceTheTrade report next to it.
Do I have to type anything?
No. Tap Entering, Feeling, or Exiting and answer out loud. Your words are transcribed on your device and timestamped to the moment you said them.
Does my video leave my phone?
Recordings stay on your device and auto-delete after 7 days unless you export them. The optional AI coach receives spoken text, any names or patterns you’ve entered, and summary heart-rate figures, never video or audio.
What do I need to use it?
An iPhone running iOS 26 or later. Apple Watch is optional and adds heart-rate markers to the timeline. It works with any market and any broker.
Is it free?
You can try it for free, fully unlocked. After that it’s a monthly or yearly subscription, and you’ll see the exact price in the app before you pay anything.