Changelog
New features, improvements, and fixes.
v1.8.0May 12, 2026
TradingView Advanced Charts — Now Live in Your Journal
- Per-trade journal charts are now powered by the licensed TradingView Advanced Charts library — the same engine you know from TradingView.com. Full drawing tools (trend lines, Fib retracements, channels, callouts, the lot), 100+ built-in indicators, resolution switching, and a polished candle/bar/line/area renderer replace the prior lightweight chart
- Save your chart layouts, drawing templates, indicator presets, and chart themes per-user — everything persists to your account so the same setup follows you across devices and trades
- New Fullscreen mode — click Fullscreen below any chart to expand to viewport size with a sticky entry/exit/P&L strip overlaid at the top for context while you mark up. Drawings + indicators bidirectionally cross-sync between the in-page chart and the fullscreen modal so you can drop annotations in either view and they show up in both
- New "Place AVWAP" button — click it, then click any candle to drop our custom Anchored VWAP w/ σ Bands indicator at that bar. The anchor magnet-snaps to the closest of (top wick / body midpoint / bottom wick) based on cursor proximity, so you don't need to click pixel-perfectly
- Anchored VWAP w/ σ Bands is our first custom indicator — VWAP line plus ±1σ and ±2σ standard-deviation bands, all anchored to your chosen bar. It lives in the regular Indicators picker alongside the 100+ built-ins, and the framework underneath makes future custom-indicator ports a single-file change
- Customizable entry/exit markers — Settings → Chart Markers lets you tune every visual property of the trade-context overlay independently per side: color (hex picker + free-text), label text (use "Buy"/"Sell", "BTO"/"STC", emoji, whatever), line style (solid / dashed / dotted / large dashed), line width (1–4 px), and whether to draw the horizontal price line at all. Live SVG preview shows your changes before you save
- Default marker styling tightened: bright lime entry / bright hot exit colors that pop against any candle palette, white-on-color label pills, dotted price lines that extend across the chart with a right-edge price tag. All shapes are stamped on top of candles so labels never get buried by a busy bar
- "Open in TradingView" link on every chart — opens the same symbol in your TradingView account so you can pull in your custom Pine indicators, saved layouts, and watchlists for deeper analysis without leaving the trade context
- Chart positioning fixes — the in-page chart now correctly snaps back to the trade window after you exit fullscreen instead of jumping to "today", and switching resolutions (1m → 5m → 15m, etc.) keeps the trade in view instead of resetting to the latest bar
- Datafeed deduplication — Yahoo occasionally returns adjacent bars with identical timestamps around DST transitions and session boundaries; the chart now dedupes + sorts those before they reach TradingView, so adding indicators no longer trips a "data must have unique times" assertion
- Time axis renders in your local timezone (Settings → Preferences) end-to-end — crosshair labels, axis ticks, indicator lookbacks, all consistent with your chosen zone
- Behind the scenes: Databento was retired (commercial licensing); futures bars now route directly to Yahoo within Yahoo's standard limits (1m: 7 days, 5/15m: 60 days, 1h: 730 days, daily: years). Replacement source pending broker market-data integration as those OAuth flows ship
v1.7.0April 26, 2026
Meet Forge — Your AI Trading Mentor
- Forge — the AI mentor that powers per-trade reviews, the daily/weekly/monthly cascade, and the Q&A chat now has a single, consistent voice across every surface. He reads your trades, your notes, and your prior reviews like a coach who actually remembers the last conversation, not a generic chatbot starting from scratch each time
- Forge reads your journal notes BEFORE reviewing the trade — if you already explained the setup, the emotion, or what went wrong, he won’t ask you rhetorical questions about it. He builds on what you said instead of restating it
- Cross-trade context — Forge now sees your recent trades on the same instrument when reviewing a new one, so patterns like "third MNQ revenge trade in a row" or "you keep cutting NQ winners early" actually get called out instead of every review feeling like a fresh first impression
- Prior-review context — Forge’s past reviews on similar trades are included in the prompt, so daily and weekly cascades reference what he already told you instead of contradicting himself
- Regenerate button on Daily / Weekly / Monthly cascade reviews — if a cascade run feels off, kick a new one without waiting for the next scheduled time. Admin-tier override bypasses quota + tier-lock for support investigations
- Native futures chart is now the default for futures trades — TradingView candlesticks with entry/exit markers, drag-to-zoom, no more "Yahoo doesn’t have this symbol" gaps on /MNQ /ES /NQ /CL etc. Real-time futures bars roll out per-broker as the OAuth integrations land.
- Per-trade chart now renders the time axis and crosshair in YOUR timezone (Settings → Preferences) instead of UTC — 9:30 ET prints as 9:30 ET, not 13:30
- Emotional state on the journal entry is now multi-select — a single trade can be both "Confident" and "Impatient" because real psychology rarely fits one bucket
- Tradovate scale-in / scale-out merge — a position that was built in three adds and exited in two scale-outs now shows as one trade with the full lifecycle, not five fragments that wreck your win-rate math
- Journal share toggle now generates a public link in one click and the slider knob stays inside its track in Safari (same fix applied to the Email Reports toggle in /settings)
- Sidebar navigation fix — newly added items (e.g. Prop Firms) now insert at their natural position for existing users instead of getting dumped at the bottom of your saved sidebar order
- Internal route cleanup — the in-app prop tracker moved from /prop-firms to /prop-tracker so it stops colliding with the public /prop-firms review hub
- Admin visitor + signup-funnel analytics — new admin dashboard tracks landing-page visits, signups, trial starts, and paid conversions with day-over-day deltas (no PII; aggregate counts only)
- Tracker tier repositioned — onboarding modal + marketing copy now frame Tracker as "the scoreboard for casual traders + prop accounts" so the journaling-vs-tracking choice is obvious upfront
- Public prop-firm review hub at /prop-firms — deep reviews of Apex, TopStep, MFFU, Tradeify, Alpha Futures, Earn2Trade, Take Profit Trader, Lucid, Top One, plus head-to-head comparisons (Apex vs TopStep, Apex vs MFFU, Apex vs Tradeify) and roundups (best for NinjaTrader, best for Tradovate, best static drawdown, best for scalpers, best instant funding)
- New /guides hub — long-form how-to content covering futures journal templates, R-multiple, options tracking, forex journaling, Tradovate workflow, day-trading best practices, and the NinjaTrader import flow
v1.6.0April 21, 2026
TradersForge Goes Live
- Rebrand: ForgeLog → TradersForge Journal — entire app, marketing, and product surface rebranded under the new TradersForge LLC umbrella. NinjaTrader 8 add-on tools (CustomDOM, CustomClone, more on the way) ship under the same brand
- Live Stripe billing — paid subscriptions now run on real production payments through TradersForge LLC. All four price points active: Pro $19/mo + $190/yr, Elite $39/mo + $390/yr
- Self-serve Customer Portal — manage your subscription right from /settings/billing: switch Monthly ↔ Yearly, upgrade Pro → Elite (or downgrade), cancel at end of billing period with no penalty for unused time, update payment method, download invoices
- Trial-abuse defense — non-reversible payment-card fingerprint stored at trial signup; if the same card tries to start trials on multiple accounts, the second trial ends immediately and the account is charged. Disposable-email signup attempts are blocked outright
- AI Reviews now respect per-account exclusion — exclude practice / sim / prop accounts from automated AI runs, and new accounts default to Manual so you opt them in deliberately rather than waking up to a surprise bill
- Daily Journal autosave fix — cursor no longer jumps or drops characters when typing fast; save debounce bumped so quick paragraphs land as one save instead of three
- Cleaner Playbook Sharing — shared posts now show just your intro plus the import cards, not a giant auto-generated markdown duplicate of every setup name and rules block above
- Live Terms of Service and Privacy Policy — rewritten under the TradersForge LLC entity with Michigan governing law, Lansing notice address, fraud-prevention disclosures, GDPR/CCPA data rights, and explicit coverage of both the Journal subscriptions and the NT8 add-on tools
v1.5.0April 21, 2026
Prop Firm Plan Library, Tradovate Exact Fees & Per-Account Architecture
- Prop firm template library expanded from 7 firms to 13 firms × 37 plan-type variants — Alpha (Zero / Standard / Advanced), Apex (Intraday / EOD), Blue Guardian (1-Step Standard / Pro / Rapid / Instant), E8, Earn2Trade (TCP / Gauntlet), FundedNext (Bolt / Rapid / Legacy), Lucid (Pro / Flex / Direct), MFFU (Rapid / Flex / Builder / Pro), Take Profit Trader, Top One (Elite / Elite Access / INSTANT / S2F / IGNITE), TopStep (Standard / No Activation), Tradeify (Growth / Select / Lightning), Traders Launch, plus FTMO, TradeDay, and Custom — each grouped by firm in the picker
- Add Prop Account modal redesigned: pick existing trading account, create a new empty one, or create one and import a broker CSV in a single flow — with optional Cash History.csv (exact fees) and Account Balance History.csv (cash ledger reconciliation) drop zones
- Tradovate exact-fees augmenter — drop a Performance.csv + Cash History.csv together and we sum the actual Exchange + Clearing + NFA + Commission per fill, pro-rate per trade by qty, and write exact net P&L instead of estimating
- Auto-learning per-account fees — after a Cash History import, observed rates are saved per-account so future trades-only imports use exact fees automatically (manual overrides always win over auto-learned)
- Account Balance History reconciliation — derives synthetic deposits / withdrawals for any day whose balance change can’t be explained by realized P&L, so your computed balance matches the broker’s daily snapshot. Idempotent on re-run
- New /accounts page (split from /connections) with a per-account cash ledger — deposits, withdrawals, prop payouts, manual adjustments, and fees, with running balance and source-aware idempotent import
- Per-account fee schedules (→ /settings) — different broker plans across accounts can have different fees; e.g. NinjaTrader Lifetime on a personal account but standard tier on a Tradovate-routed prop sub-account
- Move trades between accounts — new arrow-icon button on /accounts opens a small picker to bulk-reassign every trade on one account to another (with fill-ID collision pre-flight check)
- Cascade delete on trading accounts — first confirm asks once, second confirm shows the trade + journal entry count that will be wiped, both required
- Edit Prop Firm dialog — pencil icon on each card opens a full editor: template + size, start/end date, phase, status, and every rule field; “Apply rules from template” copies the picked template’s defaults so switching firms is one click
- Three-tier setup picker on the journal entry — log up to 3 setups (Primary / Secondary / Tertiary) for confluence trades; each one counts toward its setup’s efficacy stats so you can track which combinations actually pay off
- Prop accounts get a dual-value display on /accounts — Account Value (running broker total) + Earned P&L (gain since starting), so you can see both pass-progress framings at the same time. Auto-flagged when a prop firm account is created against the trading account
- Trades fully isolated per account — same broker fill ID can now exist in multiple accounts (critical for copy-trader workflows where one fill is mirrored across personal + prop accounts)
- Default fee table updated to 2026 CME schedules and switched to round-trip-per-contract semantics (MNQ $1.12, ES $3.18, etc.) — fixes a silent fee under-count for any user previously relying on the per-symbol default fallback
- Dashboard “Account Value” card now links to /accounts and reflects per-account computed balances (was showing $0 for accounts driven by trades + cash ledger rather than a broker snapshot)
- Prop firm modal persists picker selections to localStorage — a failed first attempt no longer wipes your template / size / nickname / start date when you re-open the modal
- Journal Trade Details widget tightened (was ∼4x its content height); Free Text module removed in favor of Notes + Lessons Learned; default template stacks Rating + Followed Plan beside the chart
- Sidebar default ordering refreshed: Accounts joins Prop Firms in the bookkeeping cluster
v1.4.0April 18, 2026
AI Mentor Cascade, Prop Firm Tracking & Community Setup Sharing
- AI per-trade reviews — every closed trade gets a Claude Haiku review covering execution, sizing, and behavioral patterns (Pro+; auto on save or manual via the Generate button)
- AI Mentor Cascade (Elite) — Sonnet 4.6 daily mentor session reads each day’s trades, per-trade reviews, and journal entry; weekly review rolls up the dailies; monthly review rolls up the weeklies
- AI Mentor Q&A Chat (Elite) — floating sparkles bubble in the bottom-right; ask anything about your trades, journal, or AI reviews; uses tool calling to query live data and answer with real numbers (30 messages/day)
- AI Reviews settings bar at the top of the journal — toggle each cadence (per-trade / daily / weekly / monthly) between Auto and Manual, and pick your preferred local time for automated runs
- One-time AI backfill for imported history — Pro: 100 trades, Elite: 500 trades (Settings → AI Trade Reviews)
- Prop firm tracking (Pro+) — link a trading account to a TopStep, Apex, FTMO, FundedNext, TradeDay, Top One Futures, or Custom challenge; live drawdown engine handles static / intraday trailing / EOD trailing semantics
- Live progress bars on every prop account — profit target, headroom to drawdown floor, today’s daily loss budget — plus inline alerts when approaching any limit
- Share to Community from Playbook — pick any/all setups, bundle them into a single thread under Playbook Sharing with optional intro and performance stats snapshot
- Import shared setups from Community — every shared thread gets per-setup Import buttons that drop a fresh copy into your own playbook
- AI-first Support — the support widget now opens with a Claude-powered help bot that knows the app inside out; if it can’t help, the conversation pre-fills a human ticket to support@tradersforge.net
- Sidebar adds Prop Firms under Playbook; existing users keep their saved order
- Marketing page rewritten around the AI Mentor Cascade as the lead story
v1.3.0April 16, 2026
Customizable Dashboard & Daily Journal
- Dashboard is now user-customizable — drag to reorder modules, and pull widgets from Calendar, Analytics, or Risk through a categorized picker
- Layout persists per user so your dashboard follows you across devices
- Journal page restructured around a daily entry: plan the session on the left, today’s trades on the right, full-day performance stats across the top (P&L, win rate, profit factor, avg size, avg win/loss, avg winning/losing hold)
- Daily Journal includes a customizable pre-market routine checklist, self check-in (sleep + mood/energy/focus), plan & thesis (outlook, setups, targets), and an end-of-day review (followed plan?, recap, key lesson, tomorrow’s focus)
- Sections button lets lighter-touch traders hide any parts of the daily journal they don’t need
- Autosaves as you type; deep-linkable by date via ?date=YYYY-MM-DD
- Risk page P&L card now tracks the selected timeframe instead of resetting to $0 when today had no trades
- Analytics chart tooltips are now legible on the dark theme, and the value color matches its bar or slice
- Analytics “Group By” defaults to Daily so the first chart is immediately useful
- Sidebar default ordering follows a natural trading-day flow for new users (existing users keep whatever they’ve dragged into place)
- Equity Curve chart fills its dashboard card instead of leaving empty space when a neighbor widget stretches the row
- Playbook toggle thumb no longer escapes its track; fresh setups show “New Setup” as a placeholder instead of pre-filled text you had to delete
v1.2.0April 16, 2026
Multi-Account Support & Fill Pairing
- Broker connections now support multiple sub-accounts (e.g., Webull Cash, Margin, and IRA accounts sync separately)
- Trades are matched to the correct trading account automatically
- FIFO fill pairing with real P&L computation — options apply the ×100 contract multiplier, futures use instrument-specific multipliers
- Dashboard now updates instantly when switching between accounts
- Account filter in the top bar persists across all pages
v1.1.0April 2026
Yearly Billing & Plan Comparison
- Added yearly billing option with ∼17% savings on Pro and Elite plans
- New plan comparison table on the Settings page with monthly/yearly toggle
- Billing interval selection synced across upgrade cards and feature comparison
v1.0.0March 2026
Initial Launch
- Dashboard with account value, P&L, win rate, equity curve, and recent trades
- Trade management with manual entry, sortable/filterable history table
- CSV import supporting NinjaTrader, Tradovate, and generic formats
- Calendar view with daily P&L color coding and trade detail panels
- Per-trade journal with notes, emotional state, rating, and setup tagging
- Playbook with setup definitions and computed stats (win rate, avg R, expectancy)
- Analytics page with profit factor, drawdown, R-multiple distribution, and time-of-day heatmap
- Broker sync via SnapTrade (Webull, Interactive Brokers, Schwab, and more)
- Stripe-powered subscriptions (Free, Pro, Elite) with 14-day free trial
- Dark theme with responsive design for all screen sizes