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Stargate vs Trading Journals.

The full comparison with TradeZella, Edgewonk and TraderSync is being finished properly. Every feature tested, every claim verified.

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Stargate vs TradeZella, Edgewonk, TraderSync, Tradervue & every journal

Journals log the damage.
Stargate prevents it.

The verdict in 20 seconds

Trading journals such as TradeZella, Edgewonk, TraderSync and Tradervue record and analyse trades after you have taken them. Stargate, built by Come Learn Forex (CLF), screens every setup before you place it: it already understands 23 trading strategies and checks your risk, session, framework and discipline pre-trade, issuing violations and warnings in the moment. Journals are excellent historians. If records are all you need, they are enough. If you want the mistake stopped before it costs you, that is a different generation of tool.

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How we compared: each platform's published pricing and feature pages, verified 4 July 2026. We credit what each does well. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it.

Thirty years of the same idea

Every era logged the damage a little faster.

The paper logbook1990s Acts after the trade
The spreadsheet2000s Acts after the trade
The cloud journal2010s · Tradervue, Edgewonk Acts after the trade
The AI journal2020s · TradeZella, TraderSync Still after the trade
The intervention layerNow · Stargate Acts before the trade

Four generations of better hindsight. One tool that finally moved to the other side of the click.

The three tools inside Stargate

A journal is two-thirds of Stargate. The third saves you.

Before the trade Trade Planner
✓Strategy: one of 23, recognised
✓Session: London open, liquid
!Risk 3.4%: violation, warned
✓Framework: balanced

Screens every setup before you click. Risk, session, framework, overtrading: checked while the trade is still an idea.

No journal has this
The record Trade Analyser
GBP/USD · LongLogged
EUR/USD · ShortLogged
Gold · LongLogged

Every planned trade logs itself: entry, size, checks, outcome. The journal you used to write by hand, writing itself.

This is a journal's core product
After the trade Trade Analysis
Discipline · win rate · violations over time

Your performance, patterns and discipline record analysed over time. The dashboards journals sell, included.

This is a journal's analytics
The difference, animated

The same mistake, two different endings.

Risking 3.4% on a revenge trade
Strategy intelligence

Journals ask you to tag your strategy. Stargate already knows it.

23
strategies understood
and screened live
✓Risk 1 to 2% ✓Session liquidity ✓Framework balance ✓Overtrading
SMCSupply & DemandPrice ActionSMTWyckoffQuantitativeSupport & ResistanceFibonacciHead & ShouldersInverse H&STrendlinesDouble Top / BottomTrianglesFlagsPennantsWedgesPin BarsEngulfingInside BarsOutside BarsBreak & RetestHH / HLChannels
Side by side

Three generations, one table.

What matters
Logbook erapaper · Excel
Dashboard erajournal apps · AI
Intervention eraStargate
When it acts
✕After
✕After
✓Before the trade
Risk control
✕Records it
−Flags it later
✓Warns pre-trade over 1 to 2%
Session timing
✕Manual notes
−Reports
✓Live liquidity check
Your strategy
✕A column
−Tags + stats
✓23 preloaded, screened
Framework validity
✕None
✕None
✓Balanced or imbalanced
Discipline
✕Willpower
−Prompts after
✓Violations + warnings
Mentorship
✕None
−AI summaries
✓Pip + human team
Education
✕None
✕Blog posts
✓Accredited Level 2 & 3
Pricing
−Free-ish
−$29 to $79.95/mo
✓Included with the qualification

Published plans, verified 4 July 2026: Tradervue has a free tier; Edgewonk is $197 billed per 16 months on its published plan; TradeZella from $29/mo; TraderSync $29.95 to $79.95/mo. Stargate is not sold per month to start: a 30-day trial plus two live webinars a week come with the £120 Level 2, exam and attendance included, and the full platform is free throughout the four months of Level 3.

What prevention looks like

Caught before entry, not confessed after.

The named players

Credit where it is due, and where it stops.

TradeZellaAfter the trade
From $29/mo500+ brokers, their figureAI insights

The best-known journal, and genuinely slick. It meets your trade once you have taken it.

Full head-to-head coming
TraderSyncAfter the trade
$29.95 to $79.95/moHuge broker coverageAI on higher tiers

Deep analytics, with AI that needs 100+ trades of history before it speaks. History is the operative word.

Full head-to-head coming
EdgewonkAfter the trade
$197 per 16 monthsTiltmeter psychologyWeekly reports

The psychology specialist and honest value, if you do the homework. Nothing intervenes when you do not.

Full head-to-head coming
TradervueAfter the trade
Free tier availableThe veteran, since 2011Simple + reliable

A dependable record-keeper with years behind it. Records are what it gives you, and where it ends.

Full head-to-head coming
The honest bit

When a journal is genuinely all you need.

✓You only want recordsA journal does that perfectly. Tradervue even has a free tier.
✓You never break your own rulesThen enforcement adds nothing. Most traders believe this; the data disagrees.
✓You need broker auto-sync at scaleJournals lead on integrations. TraderSync's coverage is genuinely wide.
✓Budget is the constraintEdgewonk and the free tiers are honest value for pure logging.
Where every journal stops: the seconds between spotting a setup and clicking buy. That is where accounts are lost, and no journal, AI or otherwise, can reach it. It is the only moment Stargate was built for.
Switching

Switching costs nothing but the habit.

The Trade Analyser logs every planned trade automatically, so the journal you have been writing by hand starts writing itself. Keep the old one alongside if you like.

1Level 2 · £120 all-inTwo days, taught live. The qualification comes first.
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2The exam unlocks StargateIncluded in your £120. Passing brings a 30-day trial of the full platform plus two live webinars a week.
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3Level 3 if it earns itFour months of mentorship. Full Stargate, Pip and the human team included throughout.
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Questions

The obvious questions.

No, it contains one. Stargate has three tools: the Trade Planner screens setups before you take them, the Trade Analyser logs every planned trade automatically, and Trade Analysis reviews your performance and discipline over time. The Analyser and Analysis are what journals sell. The Planner is the part they do not have.
Yes. Nothing conflicts. Plenty of traders keep an existing journal running while they plan through Stargate. Most find the Analyser makes the manual journal redundant within a month, but that is your call to make, not ours.
Because the expensive mistakes, oversized risk, revenge trades, trading dead sessions, are decided in the seconds before entry. A journal can only tell you about them afterwards, and by then the money is gone. Screening the setup first means the lesson costs nothing.
£120 covers the two-day Level 2 training, the assessed exam and your accredited certificate. Stargate access comes bundled, which unlocks a 30-day trial of the platform plus two live webinars a week. The entire platform is then free throughout the four months of the Level 3 mentorship. After Level 3, continued access is an optional subscription confirmed before your mentorship ends. There is no journal-style standalone monthly fee to start.
For record-keeping and pattern awareness, yes, and we would rather you used one than nothing. What no journal can do is enforce anything. Improvement needs the record, the education and the intervention together, which is why Stargate ships attached to accredited qualifications rather than as a standalone logger.

Stop reading about your mistakes.
Start preventing them.

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Written by the Come Learn Forex team, led by founder Shoaib Ghauri. Published 4 July 2026. Competitor facts from their public pages; corrections welcome. Education, not financial advice. Trading involves risk.