NewWeekly focus: one thing to fix, tracked all week

The journal that turns you into a disciplined trader

Every other journal shows you a hundred numbers and leaves the improving to you. Actal reads your trades and tells you what is wrong, what it costs, and what to work on next.

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This week's execution
Execution 61, down from 84. You made money doing the wrong thing.
Net is up $2,140 but three of four green days came from F-graded trades, and you traded past your loss limit twice.
See the 4 findings
Review 7 trades
Net P&L
+$2,140
Rules kept
61%
Mistake cost
−$1,306
Expectancy
0.42R
Equity curve
30 days · net of commissions
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Why other journals don't work

You have been logging trades for a year. Are you a better trader?

Most journals are stats dashboards. They are good at showing you what happened and silent about what to do. The improving is left to you, at 4pm, tired, staring at fifty charts.

Every other journal
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A dashboard with fifty stats. You work out what they mean.
One verdict a week, in plain language, with the evidence and the cost.
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P&L is the scoreboard. A lucky win looks like a good trade.
Discipline grade first, money second. A disciplined loss ranks above a lucky win, everywhere.
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Mistakes are tags you never look at again.
Every mistake gets a running cost. The expensive ones become your weekly focus.
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Review is a separate chore: notes here, screenshots there, stats somewhere else.
One screen. Grade, tag, annotate, note. Ten trades in five minutes, keyboard only.
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Premarket plan lives in a notebook and is never checked.
A/B/C scenarios closed out in the daily review. You learn how often you trade against your own plan.
The improvement loop

Import. Review. Get told. Fix one thing.

Every screen feeds the next. A mistake you tag on Tuesday shows up in Friday's verdict and Monday's focus.

01
Import in seconds
Drop your platform export. Fills become round-trip trades, re-imports dedupe themselves, every account stays separate.
142 fills → 61 trades · 0 duplicates
02
Review in one screen
Grade discipline A to F, tag mistakes, annotate the chart, write the note. Keyboard-first: ten trades in five minutes.
A
B
C
D
F
03
Get told what's wrong
Plain-language findings with the evidence and the dollar cost attached. Not a chart you have to interpret.
You hold losers 2.8× longer than winners
−$1,306 this month
04
Fix one thing this week
Every Monday, Actal picks one focus from your findings. Progress is tracked all week and sits at the top of your dashboard.
Moved stop: 1 of max 2Day 3/5
Insights

Findings, not charts. Each one with a price tag.

Actal runs deterministic checks over every trade you review and writes up what it finds in plain language: the pattern, the evidence, what it cost you. A lucky win on an F-graded trade gets flagged as the dangerous kind of win.

Rule breaks first: your own loss limits, trade caps and cooldowns, checked on every trade
Per-mistake cost table, clean vs mistake trades
Plan vs reality: how often you trade against your own premarket plan
4 findings this weektotal cost −$2,212
Dangerous
Your F-graded trades made money twice this week.
Both were oversized adds into a loser that came back. Sample: 2 of 2.
+$640
Hold time
You hold losers 2.8× longer than winners.
Avg 31 min vs 11 min over 61 trades. Losers cut at the plan would have saved most of it.
−$1,306
Time of day
Win rate after 11:30 drops from 58% to 31%.
19 trades after 11:30 this month. 14 of them were not in your premarket plan.
−$714
Improved
"Chased entry" is down to 1 this month from 6.
Was last month's weekly focus. Keep the alert on for two more weeks.
+$448 saved
MNQShort · 4 contracts
28 Aug · 10:42 → 11:07 · Apex Eval 50K
−$418.50
−1.4R · 25 min
chart screenshot
paste · draw · annotate
10:55 Price came back to entry and I moved the stop up instead of taking the flat. Third time this month.
Discipline grade
A
B
C
D
F
Mistakes
Moved stopOversizedChasedRevenge
J/K next · 1–5 grade · ⏎ save
Review

Grade the process. The money comes second.

A disciplined loss ranks above a lucky win everywhere in Actal. Every trade gets a discipline grade, mistakes, tags and an annotated chart, in one screen, without leaving the page. Drafts save as you type.

Review queue with streaks, so the habit sticks
Draw on pasted screenshots, drawings stay editable
Best and worst lists rank grade first, P&L second
Weekly focus

One thing to work on. Tracked all week.

Fifty stats means nothing to fix. Every Monday, Actal turns your findings into a single measurable target and follows it through Friday. Nothing else on the market does this.

Picked from your insights, or set your own
Progress updates the moment you review a trade
Friday verdict: improved, regressed, or held
Week 36 focusMon 1 Sep – Fri 5 Sep
Cut mistakes per week from 4.0 to 2.0
3logged, target 2 · one clean day left
Mon · 0
Tue · 0
Wed · 2
Thu · 1
Fri · —
Last week
4.0
This week
3
4-week trend
−38%
Pricing

One plan. Less than one bad trade.

Free
Try the loop on one account.
$0
1 account, 90 days of history
Import, trade list, review screen
Basic stats and calendar
Insights and weekly focus
Everything
Pro
The full improvement engine.
$200/ year
$16.67 a month, billed once
Unlimited accounts and history
Insights with cost, weekly focus, verdicts
Premarket plans, daily and monthly reviews
Full stats engine, chart annotation, PDF export
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FAQ

Questions traders ask before switching

Stats dashboards show you what happened. Actal tells you what is wrong, what it costs, and picks one thing to fix this week. The stats are all there, but they serve that loop instead of being the product.

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