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Is there a trading journal?

Yes. The Journal panel gathers the notes you write on your charts, and every paper trade keeps a chart snapshot and a note in the paper account History. Trades on a real account get no snapshot or note.

Yes, in two places. The Journal panel gathers the notes you write on your charts, and every paper trade keeps a picture of the chart and a note of its own.

The Journal panel: your chart notes

Open the Panels menu and pick Journal under Yours, or press Alt+Shift+J.

Every note you write on a chart with a text drawing tool, such as Text, Note or Callout, shows up here. Notes are grouped by day, and each one shows its time, symbol and interval.

  • Click a note to take the chart to it.
  • Use the search button to search notes, symbols and tags. Narrow the list to Today, Week or Month.
  • Right-click a note in the panel for Show on chart, Pin, Add tag, Copy text, Highlight and Delete note.
  • On the chart, right-click a note drawing and pick Add tag to tag it.

Journal notes are drawings, so they save with your account like your other drawings.

Paper trades: a snapshot and a note for each fill

When a paper trading order fills, OpenMarket keeps a picture of the chart at that moment. To review it:

  1. Press Positions & orders at the foot of the Trade panel, and open the Portfolio tab.
  2. Under History, click a trade. It shows the chart snapshot, the fill price, the fee and the result.
  3. Under Note, press Edit, write why you took the trade, and press Save.

The Portfolio tab also shows Stats for the paper account: win rate, profit factor, average win and loss, and max drawdown.

  • A snapshot needs a chart of that market open in your layout when the order fills.
  • Snapshots and notes stay in this browser. The last 500 fills keep their snapshot; older fills keep only their note.
  • Resetting the paper account erases its notes and snapshots.

Trades on a real account

Trades on a linked exchange account or on Hyperliquid are not journaled: they get no snapshot and no note. Their fills are listed in the Trade history tab of Positions & orders.