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Guides: journaling, backtesting and choosing a tool
Plain-language guides with the formulas and the limits spelled out.
Short answer
These guides explain how to keep a trading journal, how to backtest a crypto strategy with bar replay and which free replay options exist. The roundups compare trading journals by use case and say openly that they come from the team behind Edgetrail.
Guides
- How to keep a trading journalWhat to log, when, and which numbers to read.
- How to backtest a crypto strategy with bar replayStep by step, with the common mistakes.
- Free bar replay for cryptoWhat the free options cover and where they stop.
- What is a good profit factor?A computed table of profit factor by win rate and R:R, with honest ranges.
- What is a good win rate?The breakeven win rate for every risk/reward ratio, with costs.
- How many trades does a backtest need?A reproducible simulation of 30, 100 and 300 trades.
- Trailing vs static drawdownIntraday, end-of-day and static floors worked through day by day.
- Crypto futures P&L with fees and fundingA worked example to eight decimal places, and what each import includes.
- How to journal partial exitsOne position, several exits, one R – and the mistakes that distort statistics.
- Stop and target in the same candleWhy a candle cannot tell the order, Edgetrail’s exact fill rule and what the choice does to expectancy.
- How to backtest liquidity sweepsAn objective sweep definition, replay with PDH/PDL and sessions from a random start, and the sample you need.
- Crypto backtesting software: what to checkA neutral checklist – exchange data, 1-minute depth, fill rules, costs – and where Edgetrail fits.
- How to pass a prop firm challengeTrack the rules that end challenges, with sizing tables and the day boundaries of FTMO, HyroTrader and Breakout.
- Weekly trading review12 questions in a fixed order and a free template.
Roundups
- Which trading journal fits you – by use case.
- Crypto trading journals compared.
- Trading journals for prop firm challenges.
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Free trading calculators and a journal templateCalculators that run in your browser, with the formulas explained. No sign-up.Edgetrail vs TradeZella, Edgewonk, TraderSync & More (2026)Edgetrail vs TradeZella, Edgewonk, TraderSync, Tradervue, TradesViz, FX Replay and TradingView: prices, free trials, replay. Checked 9 Oct 2026.Crypto Bar Replay: Bybit, Binance, OKX, CoinbaseBar replay on 4,952 crypto markets from Bybit, Binance, OKX and Coinbase, 1-minute candles back to 2015, with a backtest journal. Try 14 days free.
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