Trading journal spreadsheet
The one spreadsheet that does more than store your trades — it turns them into the performance metrics that tell you whether you actually have an edge.
Free download · Updated July 2026
See what's inside
A live performance dashboard, a monthly P&L calendar and a full-year heatmap — all auto-calculated from your trades.
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A spreadsheet is the perfect place to journal trades: flexible, free, and yours. But a spreadsheet is only as good as the formulas behind it — and a bare grid of entries teaches you nothing.
This one is engineered around the analysis, not just the logging. Type your trades and it surfaces the same metrics a paid platform would, without the subscription.
What to log in your trading journal spreadsheet
A good journal captures more than price in and price out. This spreadsheet is set up to record — and analyse — the fields that actually change how you trade:
- The setup / strategy behind each trade, so you can see which ones make money
- Your planned stop, so risk and R-multiple can be calculated automatically
- The emotion and any mistake on each trade, to expose behavioural leaks
- Entry, exit, size and fees — the raw inputs it turns into P&L and returns
Spreadsheet vs journaling software
Dedicated software adds automatic broker sync, trade replay and cloud access — genuinely useful once you're trading at volume. But for most traders, a well-built spreadsheet does 90% of the job for $0, and it keeps your data completely in your hands.
Start with the spreadsheet. If and when you outgrow it, you'll know exactly which features you're actually missing — and we rank the tools that provide them.
Built to grow with you
It handles hundreds of trades without slowing down, works across stocks, options, futures and forex, and the charts and calendar recalculate the moment you add a row. Nothing to configure — it just keeps up.
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Trading Journal Spreadsheet — FAQ
Is the spreadsheet free?
Yes. Enter your email and we send it over free — it works in Excel or Google Sheets with no subscription.
How is this different from a normal spreadsheet?
It's pre-built with all the analysis: R-multiple, profit factor, expectancy, an equity curve and a P&L calendar are already wired up. You just log trades; it does the maths.
Can I use it for stocks, options, futures and forex?
Yes — it's market-agnostic. The direction-aware P&L logic works for longs and shorts across any instrument.
Do I need to be good with spreadsheets?
No. If you can type into a cell, you can use it. All the formulas are already in place and protected by design.