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The self-hosted Tradervue alternative
Tradervue set the standard every journal copies — R-multiple reporting, MAE/MFE, liquidity analysis. TraderMemos brings that reporting depth to your own server, with a modern UI and behavioral analytics on top.
Price
Your data
Reports
Behavioral analytics
Rule compliance & prop
Sharing
AI
Interface
| Category | Tradervue | TraderMemos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free tier; advanced reports are paid | Everything free — AGPL-3.0 open source |
| Your data | Tradervue's cloud | A SQLite (or Postgres) database on your own server |
| Reports | Gold standard: R-mode, MAE/MFE, liquidity | R-multiples, MAE/MFE, expectancy, SQN, Kelly % |
| Behavioral analytics | — | Revenge, overconfidence, and loss-aversion flags per session |
| Rule compliance & prop | — | Risk rules, compliance P&L, prop drawdown tracking |
| Sharing | Journal-sharing community | Revocable read-only share links + share cards |
| AI | — | AI trade coach with your own keys |
| Interface | Functional, showing its age | Modern terminal aesthetic, dark mode, native iOS & Android app |
Where Tradervue wins
- Report maturity refined over more than a decade
- A sharing community of public journals
- Liquidity and slippage reports for active equities traders
Where TraderMemos wins
- Full ownership through self-hosting
- Everything free
- The behavioral layer Tradervue never built
- Prop mode and rule compliance
- AI with your own keys
- Modern UX and a native mobile app
The honest verdict
Tradervue remains excellent at the reports it pioneered. TraderMemos matches the ones day traders use daily, adds the behavioral layer Tradervue never built, and puts the whole thing on your hardware.
Based on public pricing and feature pages as of August 2026. Products change — if something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it. Open an issue →
Run it on your own box
TraderMemos is free, open-source software. Clone the repo, run one command, and journal tonight's session on hardware you own.