Tradezella: the trading journal for passing a challenge
Most challenges are failed on a rule broken on a bad day, not on a wrong analysis. A trading journal helps you see those days coming: which hours, which assets and which mistakes cost you the most. Tradezella is one of the journals most widely used by prop firm traders. Here is what it really does, and what it costs.
Our verdict: a very good tool if you take challenge after challenge or trade with a cBot, thanks to automatic sync with cTrader and MT5 and prop firm rule tracking. For a single account and occasional use, the entry plan is enough, but the tool is still a paid one.
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Strengths
- Automatic sync with cTrader, MT4, MT5, NinjaTrader and DXtrade
- Prop firm rule tracking: target and maximum losses
- Replay of your trades and backtesting on more than 11 years of data
- More than 50 reports to spot your recurring mistakes
- Easy cancellation: access stays active until the end of the paid period
Weaknesses
- Paid, with no free trial mentioned on the official website
- Only one account tracked on the Essential plan
- File import only for TradingView and Match-Trader
- Pricing pages sometimes contradict each other on the features included
Why keep a journal during a challenge
A challenge is a set of numerical rules: daily loss, overall loss, target. A journal turns your trades into statistics: your average loss per day, your worst time slots, the number of trades you take after a loss. This is often where you find out that the daily loss is only hit after the third position of the day, or always on the same asset. See also our method for passing a prop firm challenge.
What Tradezella does
- Automatic sync with more than 500 advertised brokers and prop firms, including cTrader (connection via your cTrader ID), MT4 and MT5.
- Prop Firm Sync: tracking of your challenge target and maximum losses.
- Trade Replay: replay a trade candle by candle to understand what happened.
- Backtesting on more than 11 years of data, plus AI-assisted backtesting on the higher plans.
- Reports and playbooks: more than 50 reports, and strategy sheets to check that you are following your own rules.
cTrader, MT5 and FTMO
For cTrader, Tradezella imports your past and future trades once your account is connected. For an FTMO challenge on MT4 or MT5, sync works through the server and the investor password (read-only), or by importing the MT5 HTML report. TradingView and Match-Trader are only supported through file import.
Prices
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Accounts tracked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | $35/month | $315/year ($26/month) | 1 |
| Pro | $59/month | $531/year ($44/month) | 50 |
| Ultra | $99/month | $891/year ($74/month) | unlimited |
Prices in force since 14 July 2026, recorded on 5 November 2026 on tradezella.com. The price shown on the website prevails.
The Essential plan is enough to track a single challenge. If you run several accounts in parallel, for example a challenge and a funded account, you need to move up to Pro.
Who is it for?
- Yes if you take challenge after challenge, trade several accounts or run a cBot whose results you want to analyse.
- Not essential if you are starting out with a single small challenge: a well-kept spreadsheet already does much of the work.
Challenges are paid evaluations and most participants fail. Only buy a challenge with money you can afford to lose. Read the risk warning