Trading discipline, measured
You already know what you should have done.
Every trader does. The gap was never knowledge — it is the distance between the rule you set on Sunday and what you actually did at 10:47 on Tuesday, when it cost something. Tradeonomist is a two-minute daily habit that measures that distance: write what you traded, read one lesson chosen from it, then answer honestly whether you kept your own rules.
The daily loop
Two minutes, in your own 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.
- Write what happenedNothing to tag or categorise. A model reads it and pulls out the trades.
- Read what it earnedOne lesson, chosen from what you just described. Today, not in week nine.
- Answer one questionDid you keep your rules? Blank stays blank — silence is not a yes.
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.
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 both plans.
15 categories, three levels
A curriculum, not a content library.
750 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.
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.