Crux

Find out what following your plan is actually worth.

Most journals tell you what happened. Crux tells you what to change — by scoring every trade against your own rules and putting a dollar figure on the difference.

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In private testing. Built for futures and forex traders.

Plan adherence Example figures
On plan
+$248
per trade, when every rule was followed
Off plan
−$374
per trade, when at least one was broken
Your plan is worth
$622
a trade — the gap between the two
A look inside

The app, running

Screenshots, not mock-ups. Every figure on these screens was computed from the trades that were imported into a demo account — the same arithmetic that runs against your own.

The Crux dashboard: net P&L, win rate, profit factor and expectancy across
                357 trades, a plan adherence panel showing what following the plan is worth per
                trade, and an equity curve.
Dashboard The usual measures, plus the one most journals leave out: what a trade is worth on plan against off plan, and the gap between them.
The playbook screen listing three setups with their written rules, each showing
                  how many trades were scored, what share kept to plan, and the edge per trade.
Playbook Setups written down as rules. Each one carries its own scoreboard, so a plan that isn’t paying shows up as a number rather than a feeling.
The habits screen: findings such as re-entering within two minutes of a loss
                  costing money, and a table comparing trades taken first of the day, after a win
                  and after a loss.
Habits The same trade judged by what came before it — after a loss, after a win, re-entered too fast. Read from the fills, with nothing to fill in.
The evaluation screen tracking an Apex 50K account: headroom before the trailing
                  drawdown floor, profit target, minimum trading days and a consistency rule.
Evaluation Trailing drawdown, profit target, minimum days and consistency, tracked live. The number that matters is the distance to the floor.
How it works

Three things no spreadsheet will tell you

Every journal counts your wins. These are the questions that change how you trade next week.

01

What discipline pays

Write your setups down as rules. Tick the ones you actually followed. Crux splits your P&L between the trades that kept to plan and the ones that didn't, and tells you which rule costs you most when you break it.

02

The habits behind the losses

What your next trade does after a loss. Whether your size creeps up when you're down. How re-entering within two minutes works out. How much of the morning the afternoon gives back. All of it from your fills — nothing to write down.

03

How much room is left

Trailing drawdown, daily loss limits, profit targets and consistency rules, tracked from your own trades. Built for evaluation and funded accounts, where the number that matters is the distance to the floor.

Connections

Your trades arrive on their own

Connect once and stop exporting a statement after every session. Crux only ever reads — it has no order-entry code and cannot place, change or cancel a trade.

cTrader

Sign in on cTrader's own site and grant read-only access. Works with every cTrader broker and prop firm.

Read-only
NinjaTrader

Reads the fills already saved on your own machine. Covers the futures prop firms you trade through it.

Read-only
Topstep & Tradovate

Direct sync for supported account types.

Read-only
Any broker, by file

Drop a CSV or MetaTrader statement in a watched folder and it imports within seconds. Columns are detected automatically.

Every broker
Pricing

Seven days free, then pick a tier

No card to start. Prices shown monthly; paying yearly is cheaper.

Journal

$9.99 /mo
or $99.99 a year
  • Unlimited trades and accounts
  • Calendar, analytics and daily write-ups
  • File import from any broker
  • Screenshots and tagging

Edge

$19.99 /mo
or $199.99 a year
  • Everything in Journal
  • Playbooks and plan-adherence scoring
  • The habits engine
  • Automatic broker connections

Funded

$29.99 /mo
or $299.99 a year
  • Everything in Edge
  • Prop firm evaluation tracking
  • Trailing drawdown and rule alerts
  • Multiple funded accounts side by side

Crux is in private testing

We're putting it in front of a small group of futures and forex traders before opening it up. If you keep a journal and want an early look, say hello — we read every message.

support@cruxjournal.com