Best Trading Journals for Indian Traders in 2026
A practical, transparent comparison of spreadsheets, broker reports, and trading-journal software for Indian traders.
TradeLore journal
Ideas for a more deliberate trading review
Practical notes on planning, journaling, replaying, and analysing your trading process.
Latest articles
Read article
Free Trading Journal Template for Indian Traders
Build a practical Excel or Google Sheets trading journal template for Indian equities, futures and options.
How to Maintain a Trading Journal for F&O Trading
A practical guide to recording futures and options trades before, during and after execution.
How to Calculate Net Trading P&L After Brokerage and Charges
Understand gross P&L, brokerage, exchange charges, statutory charges, taxes and net trading P&L in India.
Broker P&L Report vs Trading Journal: What Traders Are Missing
Understand what broker reports show and what a structured trading journal adds for review and decision-making.
How to Import Zerodha Trades Into a Trading Journal
Documented TradeLore workflow for connecting Zerodha trade fills, matching trades and reviewing imported data.
How to Import Dhan Trades Into TradeLore
A repository-grounded overview of TradeLore's Dhan trade import, normalisation, options fields and matching workflow.
How to Import Upstox Trades Into a Trading Journal
Learn how TradeLore's Upstox integration requests historical trades, normalises fields and prepares them for journal review.
How to Import Angel One Trades Into a Trading Journal
A verified-code overview of TradeLore's Angel One trade-book workflow, imported fields and troubleshooting checks.
How to Journal Delta Exchange India Futures Trades
A TradeLore guide to Delta fills, funding, fees and perpetual-futures review, based on the current integration.
The 15 Most Important Trading Journal Metrics
Definitions, formulas, interpretations and limitations for 15 trading journal metrics.
Profit Factor vs Win Rate: Which Metric Matters More?
Compare profit factor and win rate with formulas, worked examples and sample-size limitations.
Trading Expectancy Explained With Formula and Examples
Learn the trading expectancy formula, positive and negative expectancy, and how to segment results.
MFE and MAE in Trading: Improve Stops and Exits
Understand Maximum Favourable Excursion and Maximum Adverse Excursion with illustrative chart data and practical limits.
R-Multiple vs Risk-Reward Ratio: A Practical Guide
Understand planned risk-reward and realised R-multiple with full-stop, target, partial-exit and early-exit examples.
A 30-Minute Weekly Trading Review Process
A printable 30-minute weekly trading review checklist with questions, an example summary and a TradeLore workflow.
How to Find Your Best Trading Time Using Journal Data
Analyse personal performance by time, weekday, expiry, instrument and strategy without assuming a universal best trading time.
How to Track Trading Mistakes and Stop Repeating Them
Create consistent mistake tags, measure their impact and choose one behavioural improvement at a time.
Trading Psychology Journal: How to Track Emotions
A practical, non-clinical framework for recording emotions and comparing them with trading behaviour and results.
How to Review an Options Trade: Complete Example
A fictional NIFTY options trade review covering thesis, execution, risk, charges, MFE, MAE and lessons.