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Trade Journal Score Calculator
P&L tells you whether the market moved your way. It says nothing about whether you traded well. Answer seven questions about one trade and get a single score for how closely you followed your own plan.
Why it matters
A green trade can be a bad trade
Most traders grade themselves by the outcome: green is good, red is bad. That trains the wrong instincts. A chased entry with a guessed stop that happened to run is rewarded; a textbook trade that hit its stop is punished. Over a few months that feedback loop builds confidence in luck and doubt in discipline.
A journal score fixes the grading rubric to the part you control — setup selection, entry timing, stop discipline, sizing, exit, and whether you actually logged it. Run it on a winner and a loser from the same session and the number often disagrees with the P&L. That disagreement is the whole point.
This is a self-report score. Only you know whether you hesitated or moved a stop, so only you can grade it honestly. Used straight, it is the fastest way to separate a bad decision from a bad outcome.
How it works
Each question scores 0, 1, or 2 — no, partly, or yes. The calculator sums your answers, normalizes them to a 0–100 score, and maps that to a grade band. Nothing is sent anywhere; the math runs in your browser.
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Answer for one specific trade
Pick a single trade you can still remember clearly — ideally one you just closed. Scoring a vague memory produces a vague number.
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Grade the decision, not the result
Answer as if you did not know how the trade turned out. "Did I enter at my trigger" has the same answer whether the trade won or lost.
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Read the band, then log it
The band tells you roughly how clean the execution was. The real value comes from logging the score over many trades and watching which questions you keep failing.
The calculator
Seven yes/partly/no questions covering plan match, entry, stop, size, exit, logging, and rule compliance.
Did the trade match a setup in your plan?
A named play with a defined trigger — not an impulse off a feeling.
Did you enter at your planned trigger?
At the trigger, not chased above it or jumped early in front of it.
Was your stop placed where the plan said — and held?
Placed at the planned level and never widened once the trade was on.
Was your position size within your risk rule?
Risk per the rule you set before the session, not sized up on conviction.
Did you exit per your plan?
At the planned target or stop — not a panic exit or a held-too-long hope.
Did you log it same-day with tags and a note?
A written record while the memory is fresh, not reconstructed days later.
Did you honor your session rules?
Daily loss limit, max trades, no-trade windows — the rules you set in advance.
Your result
A 0–100 execution score and a grade band describing how closely the trade followed your plan.
Answered 0/7 — finish every question to see your score.
Worked examples
The winner that scores low
You chased a breakout two points above the trigger, guessed the stop, took profit early out of nerves — but it ran and closed green. Scored honestly: plan match yes, entry chased, stop guessed, exit early. Mid-40s. The P&L says genius; the score says warning. Fifty trades later, the score is the one that was right.
The loser that scores high
A clean playbook setup, entered at the trigger, stop held, sized per the rule, stopped out for a small loss, logged with tags. Score in the 90s. Red trade, A-grade decision. Stacking these is how you learn to keep trading well through a losing stretch instead of abandoning the plan.
Using it as a weekly average
Score every trade for a week and average them. A rising weekly average while P&L is flat is the earliest signal that discipline is improving — and it shows up weeks before the money does.
FAQ
What is a good trade journal score?
Anything in the 85+ band is textbook execution regardless of outcome. But the absolute number matters less than the trend: a personal average that climbs week over week means your discipline is improving, which is the only thing a journal score is really measuring.
Should I score winning trades too?
Especially winners. Winning trades hide your most dangerous habits because the outcome rewards them. A chased entry that worked is still a chased entry, and scoring it honestly is how you catch the habit before a losing month does.
Is this score objective?
No, and it should not be. Most of these questions — did you hesitate, did you follow the plan — can only be answered by the trader who took the trade. The score is a structured way to be honest with yourself, not an external grade.
Is Mettle free to start?
Yes. You get full access free for 14 days with no card. We only ask for a card once you have reviewed three sessions — after the product has proven it earns a place in your routine.
Score every trade automatically
Mettle gives every journaled trade an execution scorecard built on these same questions, plotted on your candle chart, with a weekly review that reads the trend back to you. Self-reported, honest, and kept for you.
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