TradingDiary Pro

What it is

A Windows desktop application that turns broker statements into a trade database and then reports on it. You import executions, it builds round-trip positions, and every position carries an attached rich-text note, tags, the stop and target you set, and a chart with the trades plotted. Above that sit the reports that make it more of an analytics tool than a diary: an equity curve built from net asset value rather than closed trades alone, time-weighted and internal rate of return, Sharpe and Sortino against a benchmark, drawdown, R multiples, MAE and MFE, and a capital gains report. It is made by Sword Tech Kft., a Hungarian company, whose copyright line on the site runs from 2009.

Pricing

A $149 licence, bought once, covering two PCs and a year of upgrades. After the first year, $49 a year keeps you on new versions; stop paying and the copy you have keeps working, but newer builds are not licensed for you. Let it lapse more than six months and the vendor sells a new licence at half price, $74.50. Refunds are partial — the vendor keeps $10 of a new order, $5 of a renewal.

The 30-day trial is the full program except that the capital gains report cannot be exported and shows only its first 100 rows. When it ends the database becomes read-only rather than locked.

Data & coverage

Stocks, options and futures options, futures, forex, CFDs, warrants and bonds, per the vendor's FAQ. Options get their own handling: more than 25 strategies — verticals, calendars, diagonals, condors, straddles, collars, covered calls — are recognised from the legs, with adjustments and custom strategies. Prices come from end-of-day history downloads through Interactive Brokers, MetaTrader 4, FXCM, OANDA, Questrade or Yahoo Finance; there is no live feed. The tax report can be produced in a currency other than your base, with central-bank exchange rates downloaded for EUR, CAD, AUD, CZK, HUF and PLN, and follows the Australian tax year for AUD.

Integrations

The import table lists 31 brokers and platforms plus a generic Excel/CSV importer: Interactive Brokers (and CapTrader through it), Charles Schwab, Fidelity, E*Trade, Ally, Tastyworks, Thinkorswim, TradeStation, Questrade, Qtrade, Scotia iTrade, Degiro, WH Selfinvest, KBC Equitas, Bell Direct, Commonwealth Securities, NinjaTrader, Rithmic, Sierra Chart, MetaTrader 4, FXCM, OANDA and a handful of futures and forex brokers. Interactive Brokers and Questrade are pulled through an API; the rest are files, which a folder-watch service can import as they land.

Version 26.2, released 24 September 2026, added a built-in MCP server: read-only, bound to 127.0.0.1, token-protected, and exposing 11 tools over accounts, executions, positions, open positions, cash transactions and equity. Claude Desktop reaches it through the mcp-remote bridge, which needs Node.js installed.

Limitations

• Windows only. No macOS, Linux, web or mobile version, and the database is a single SQL Server Compact file that cannot live on a network share, so it does not sync between two machines.
• The import table is out of date in both directions. It still lists Scottrade, TD Ameritrade, TradeMonster and GFT Forex, all gone, while the release notes name Webull, Robinhood, MetaTrader 5, CQG and First Trade modules the table does not list. Ask about your broker before buying.
• Releases stopped for over two years: version 24.1 shipped in February 2024 and the next, 26.1, in June 2026, with 26.2 in September. A broker format change in that gap would have gone unfixed for as long. The help centre's requirements page still lists Windows Vista to Windows 10 and .NET 4.6.
• The licence phones home; five days without validation turns the program read-only.
• The MCP server reads the diary only while the desktop app is open, and whatever it returns is sent to the AI provider as part of the conversation.
• No crypto support is listed among its asset categories.

Alternatives

Edgewonk is the other journal sold as an annual flat fee, and runs in a browser on any OS. TradeNote is the free, self-hosted option for anyone who wants their trades on their own machine without Windows. Tradervue has a longer broker list and nothing to install. If the tax report is the reason you are here, TradeLog is built for US trader tax accounting rather than review.