The Final Tape
A futures trading journal records each completed contract trade with planned risk, R-multiple, setup tags, and exit quality so you can measure whether edge is stable across sessions and regimes — not just whether the day was green.
Review every contract trade with institutional-grade forensics — designed for discretionary futures traders and prop-style workflows.
Futures day traders and swing traders who care about R-multiples, session discipline, eval prep, and knowing which setup works in which regime — not just end-of-day PnL.
Log each session with the same fields: setup, planned risk, actual excursion, and exit quality. Over weeks, you see whether win rate and expectancy drift because of markets or because of execution — not because your spreadsheet formula changed.
Track planned vs actual risk, MAE/MFE, and R on every trade. Futures traders sizing off points or ticks still get comparable metrics across instruments when risk is expressed in R.
Monte Carlo in The Final Tape pulls win rate and payoff from your completed trades — not generic “50% win / 1:1” assumptions. See tail drawdown and recovery paths before you increase contracts after a green week.
The Playbook ties setups to taxonomy tags so you know which patterns pay in trend vs chop. Stop debating “was that an A+?” — compare tagged trades on expectancy and profit factor.
Structured review, daily loss awareness, and mistake ranking help you prepare for evaluations and funded accounts. Inspect mode lets you walk through the full workflow before you journal your own account.
Capture contract, session (RTH vs ETH if relevant), planned stop in ticks/points, actual MAE/MFE, and whether the trade followed the playbook. Prop eval traders should tag rule violations explicitly so AI Council can rank dollar cost.
Mixing micro and full-size contracts in one expectancy pool. Ignoring slippage on market orders. Sizing up after one green week without re-running Monte Carlo on the full sample.
These product modules run on your completed trades, one canonical tape, no spreadsheet re-entry.
Portfolio growth, drawdown, Kelly, and scenario analysis from your journal statistics.
Learn more →Setups, planning tags, execution taxonomy, and regime filters on real trade history.
Learn more →Grid-search stop and target rules on your entries to test better exits historically.
Learn more →Yes. Create a free account to inspect a fully populated, read-only environment. Every major module is visible — no credit card required. Upgrade when you are ready to journal your own trades.
Yes. Use structured taxonomy, exit scores, simulation tools, and AI-ranked mistakes to tighten process before evals and funded payouts.
No. The Final Tape is a performance operating system for review, analytics, and simulation. You log or import completed trades; the platform does not connect to brokers for execution.
Portfolios let you separate eval, live, and experimental accounts. Metrics stay scoped per portfolio so you do not mix statistics.
Most serious traders run a weekly deep review (AI Council + setup breakdown) and a quick daily check on open risk and process rules.
Last updated: 2026-06-04