Slate

Your trades, and what they really mean.

A trading journal for your phone and your computer. Bring your trades in from your broker and see, in plain words, where you need to improve.

Opening soon. Join the list and you’ll be the first to know.

14 days free when it opens. A card starts the trial; cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.

See it with example data

In plain words

You win 56% of your trades, about 6 out of 10.

You’d still make money winning just 43% of the time.

Example data: the demo’s 120 made-up trades.

From your broker

Interactive Brokers syncs by itself. Trading 212, Schwab, Robinhood and more: one file a week.

Which files it reads

Known layouts: Interactive Brokers, Trading 212, Charles Schwab, Robinhood, Webull, Zerodha and Freetrade.

Any other CSV file, such as Trade Republic, Hargreaves Lansdown, AJ Bell or Groww: Slate finds the columns itself and asks you if one is missing.

In plain words

One sentence about your own trading, with the chart behind it.

Every day on a calendar

Each day shaded by how it went. Tap one to see its trades.

Your setups and hours

Tag your setups and see which ones pay. Day traders see every hour too.

After fees, in your currency

Fees come off every result. Dollars are converted at that day’s ECB rate.

Phone and computer

One journal on both. Dark or light, in the colours you choose.

Every trade, by month, with its result
Insights in plain words: your review, what you're good at and what's costing you
The journal on a computer: the calendar, a day's trades and the best weekday

Example screens. All figures are example data.

Your journal stays yours

Michael Wright

Made by one trader

I’m Michael Wright, a trader who fell in love with the charts. I initially built Slate as a small private program to help me answer the burning question: Am I a profitable trader? I wanted honesty to be laid out in front of me, guiding me to become a full-time trader.

Slate is run by me alone, from the UK. Write to me through Help and feedback in the app and I’ll be sure to answer you myself.

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I first started trading 2 years ago. I was hooked from the beginning, sitting in front of charts for 8 hours a day. It gave me a purpose in my life which I was excited to pursue. The journey was a rollercoaster without a doubt, but I eventually settled on a simple Support and Resistance strategy, trading regular stocks. Holding for 1–2 days.

Finding that was a great balance, because it enabled me to focus on my other hobbies and university. Despite working hard though, it was uncomfortable not knowing whether I was actually a good trader. That’s when I thought about computing my past trades into some basic formulas. I completely ignored online platforms because of how expensive they were. After consistently improving the tool weekly, I eventually got it to a standard I was happy with.

After some convincing from a friend, I began transforming this tool into an app which I could offer to the public, but at an affordable price. My vision was to help those traders who are serious about improving themselves. I believed that what other journals charged was not acceptable. I’d been hurt before by thinking I was profitable when I wasn’t, and it left me unable to trust my own sense of how well I was doing. I didn’t want to guess anymore which is why I make sure to display the honest, and sometimes harsh, facts which can be deduced from a trader’s performance.

The result of this app is that I can now trade knowing the evidence will be there when I need to ask myself again whether I have become a profitable trader.

Thank you.

One plan

14 days free, then $12 a month.

Add a card to start; nothing is charged until the free days are over. Cancel any time, get your money back within 30 days of a payment, and your trades stay yours either way.

Founding price: join before it opens and keep $12 a month for as long as you stay subscribed, even if the price goes up.

Start with last month’s trades.

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