Rules are easy. Keeping them isn’t.
A daily score for the part you control.
You already know what you should have done — every trader does. The gap was never knowledge; it is the distance between Sunday’s rule and what you did at 10:47 on Tuesday, when it cost something.
Tradeonomist measures that distance in two minutes a day. Write what you traded, read one lesson chosen from it, answer whether you kept your rules — and those answers become one score out of 100. Free, and it never counts your profit.
90 seconds, no signup. Guess how often you kept your own rules last week, then count. The gap is the interesting part.
Rule Check is a free page on this site, not the app. Tradeonomist asks the same question every evening and keeps the record, so the gap stops being a guess.
The daily loop
Two minutes, in plain words.
Every part of it is free and stays free. A day you did not trade counts too — sitting out is usually the disciplined choice, and no habit tool should punish it.
- Log the tradeType it in plain words and the fields fill in as you go. Nothing to tag. A day off is one tap.
- Read what it earnedOne lesson, chosen from what you just logged. Today, not in week nine.
- Answer one questionDid you keep your rules? Blank stays blank — silence is not a yes.
Tue, 22 Sep
Post-market
Streak
8
Today · CAD
+412.80
UBER · 3 contracts long
$69 put, expiring 25 Sep
Wealthsimple TFSA · closed same day
METU · 100 shares long
33.50 out, 31.50 average cost
Logged by hand
How you handled it
+ Add a trade, or one you didn’t take
A working sample — tap an answer. Left blank, it stays blank.
What a journal shows you
Every other tool scores the market’s decision.
A P&L curve. An honest record of what happened, and almost useless as feedback — because you did not choose the outcome. You chose the size, the entry, and whether to honour the stop when it came. The market chose the rest.
A journal grades
The outcome. Upload your fills and it charts what the market did to you — win rate, best day, worst day, an equity curve going up or down.
Tradeonomist grades
The decision. You chose the size, the entry, and whether to honour the stop. Those are the only parts that were ever yours.
So a journal says
“Good month.” It cannot tell a disciplined month from a lucky one, because from the outside those two produce the same chart.
So Tradeonomist says
“You kept three rules of four, and sized up twice after a loss.” True in a winning week and in a losing one, which is the point.
A disciplined monthends +$1,840
10 kept · 1 broken
A lucky monthends +$1,840
3 kept · 8 broken
Rules keptRule broken
Four rules, enforced in code
The refusals are the product.
Each of these is a rule in the codebase rather than a stated preference, which is the difference between a principle and a marketing line.
Rank anyone by money
No leaderboard by profit, trade size, or account value exists, and none will be added. Comparison is on discipline and consistency only.
Reward trading more
Levelling never touches frequency, size, or outcome. Gamifying trade count is a documented route to worse investor outcomes.
Speak on thin evidence
A recommendation needs two independent signals agreeing. A finding needs ten closed trades and a real gap, and prints the numbers it rests on.
Sell or share your data
No advertising network, no data broker, no analytics SDK. Not a paid feature — simply absent on every plan.
15 categories, three levels
A curriculum, not a content library.
1000 lessons written for this app — ordered by difficulty rather than by the order they happened to be written, with Canadian tax and account rules stated in full and the US treatment beside them at equal depth.
Optional · read-only · revocable
It can see your trades. It cannot touch them.
Connect a broker and your history arrives on its own through SnapTrade — read-only, enforced by the aggregator rather than by our good intentions, and revocable from inside the app. Or log by hand and connect nothing: the daily loop does not need a broker.
Plans
The habit is free. The rest is optional.
Free is the whole daily loop, for good. Pro adds automatic broker sync and analysis of your own trades. Ultimate adds a Deep dive into your own record, an AI coach you can ask about it, a larger picture reader, what-if replay and a tax-year report. Any paid plan starts with 7 days free.
Not on the App Store yet
Be there on day one.
Tradeonomist is in development and not yet on the App Store.
Leave an address and you will hear when it is — and get asked what you think before then.
Two emails at most: one to ask what you would want the app to do, and one on the day it ships. Your address is never shared or sold, and a reply takes you off the list.