A trading journal that's actually free
Most "free" trading journals are 14-day trials with a card on file. note500's free plan is free forever, needs no credit card, and is a complete journal — not a teaser.
Start journaling free →What you get on the free plan
- Manual trade logging for stocks, options, futures, crypto and forex — including a fast simple mode where you just type each day's total P&L. Back-filling months of history takes minutes.
- P&L calendar — green/red days at a glance, weekly totals, and economic-event markers (Fed decisions, CPI, jobs report) right on the days they land.
- Performance dashboard — your account balance and equity curve, weekly P&L strip, win-rate and streak tracking, and discipline rules (max trades / max loss per day) that flag the days you broke your own rules.
- Trade notebook — markdown notes and templates for written reviews, theses and lessons, linked to your trading days.
- Full export, always — your trades leave with you as CSV whenever you want. Export is never paywalled, on any plan.
Free plan covers one trading account and your most recent 90 days of history.
What the paid plans add
When (and only when) you outgrow the free plan: Plus adds automatic read-only broker sync, file import for 8 major brokers (Schwab, Fidelity, E*TRADE, TD Ameritrade, Tastytrade, Interactive Brokers, Webull, Robinhood), the full reports suite (profit factor, expectancy, drawdown, R-multiples), market seasonality context, AI trade reviews, 5 accounts and unlimited history. Ultimate raises limits further and adds daily AI reviews and API access. See pricing for current rates.
Weighing us against the other free options? See which trading journals are actually free in 2026 — most "free" journals turn out to be 7-day trials with a card on file.
Why free, honestly?
Because a journal only proves its worth once your own data is in it. We'd rather you log fifty real trades on the free plan and see your patterns than trust a marketing page. If the insights pay for themselves, upgrade. If not, your data exports cleanly and we part friends.
Security note: note500 never has trading access to any brokerage account — broker connections (a paid feature) are read-only by design, and the free plan involves no broker connection at all.
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