What makes a trading journal Christian?
Not a different way of counting profit. The numbers are the same for every trader. What changes is what you are trying to grow: honesty about what you actually did, self-control when the market tempts you, and faithfulness in small things, like keeping the stop you set this morning.
A trading journal is already a tool for those. It shows you the gap between the trader you meant to be and the trades you took. Crux adds the other half of the day: a place to pray, read and keep your commitments to God, in the same app you open before the market does.
One line Crux will not cross: it never sets your faith beside your profit and loss. Prayer is not a trading tactic, and a red week says nothing about your faithfulness.
What Crux does with your trades
- Scores every trade against your own rules and shows what following your plan is worth in dollars. Playbooks and plan edge.
- Finds the habits that cost you from your fills: how you trade after a loss, getting back in too fast, and size that creeps up when you are down. Habits.
- Before you trade answers “can I take this trade?” against every limit you set. How it works.
- Tracks prop firm evaluations: drawdown floor, daily loss limit, profit target and consistency rule. Evaluations.
- Futures, forex, stocks, options and crypto, from broker connections or a CSV import. Brokers.
What Crux does for your faith
- A faith journal built like the trading one: commitments instead of rules (prayer, Bible reading, gratitude, church and more), a daily log, streaks, a calendar and a weekly review that names the one commitment to grow in.
- Guided studies and reading plans: nine studies, including Money and the heart, Self-control and Anxiety and trust, and nineteen reading plans from three days to a month.
- Devotions for traders, a prayer for the trading day, a prayer journal you can mark answered, and verses to memorize.
- An optional verse of the day the first time you open Crux, off unless you turn it on.
All of it is on every plan, in the free trial, and stays open even if your trial ends. Grow your faith · Daily verse.
Scripture for traders
Five passages that speak to how a trader works. None of them promise profit, and they are not here to.
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
Know your risk before you enter: the stop, the size, and what the day can afford.
Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
Rules are walls. A daily limit you keep protects more than your account.
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
Make a plan and follow it, and hold the outcome with open hands.
No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Trading is work, not a master. Watch for the day the screen starts to own you.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Bring the anxiety of a losing week to God instead of to the next trade.
Questions
What is a Christian trading journal?
A trading journal records your trades so you can learn from them. A Christian trading journal does that with your faith in view: it measures honesty with yourself, self-control and keeping your own rules, and it gives you room for prayer and Scripture beside your trading. Crux is one: a full trading journal with a faith journal built in.
Is day trading a sin?
The Bible does not name trading. Christians who trade usually weigh it by what Scripture does address: honesty, your motive, self-control, counting the cost, and never risking what your family needs. If you are unsure, talk it through with your pastor.
Does Crux tie prayer or Bible reading to my profits?
No. Crux never compares your faith journal with your profit and loss. Prayer is not a trading tactic, and a good or bad week says nothing about your faithfulness.
Do I have to be a Christian to use Crux?
No. Every trading feature works the same for everyone. The daily verse is off unless you turn it on, and the faith journal can be hidden from the menu.
How much does Crux cost?
Every plan starts with 7 days free and no card. The faith journal and the daily verse are on every plan, and they stay open even if your trial ends.
Does Crux place trades?
No. Crux reads your fills to journal them. It has no order-entry code and never places a trade.
Built by Mason Shoemate, a Christian founder. Most trading content sells you the win. Crux is built for the trader behind the trades. Write to me at mason@cruxjournal.com.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (worldenglish.bible), which is in the public domain. The text was fetched from bible-api.com rather than typed.