The cTrader trading journal that records your stops before they disappear
Most journals ask you to export a statement and upload it. Evidence connects to the cTrader Open API directly, imports your closed trades on its own, and keeps going while the app is shut — which is the only way to catch one number your broker will not tell you afterwards.
The stop-loss problem nobody mentions
cTrader reports the stop-loss and take-profit of a position only while that position is open. Once it closes, the deal history keeps the entry, the exit and the profit — and the protective levels are gone for good. Import a statement a week later and every trade in it has an empty SL field.
That single gap quietly destroys the analysis you actually wanted. Without the stop you cannot compute R-multiples, so you cannot say whether a losing month was bad trades or oversized ones. You cannot tell a stop that was hit from a stop that was moved. Risk-adjusted metrics turn into guesses dressed up as numbers.
Evidence solves it by watching, not by asking. A background poller checks your account every five minutes and records the levels while the trade is still live. Five minutes is not a rounding choice — anything that opens and closes between two checks is still journalled from the deal history, it just arrives without its levels. Shorter interval, fewer trades missing their stops.
What the connection can and cannot do
Access is read-only, and not as a promise — as a property of the token. Evidence can read your trade history and account information. It cannot place an order, move a stop, or close a position, because it never requests the permission to do so. The refresh token is stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM, key held in the server environment, not in the database) and is deleted the moment you disconnect.
What lands in the journal
| Field | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Entry, exit, volume, timestamps | cTrader deal history |
| Stop-loss and take-profit | Captured live, while the position is open |
| Commission and swap | Kept separate, so net and gross both stay honest |
| Chart snapshot at entry | Taken automatically when the trade opens |
| Session, R-multiple, pips | Computed from the above |
Live and demo accounts both work, and they sit side by side rather than in one pile — a demo account mixed into live statistics makes the live numbers meaningless.
Not on cTrader?
Two other doors lead into the same journal. A small tracker on MetaTrader 5, TradingView, ATAS or Quantower reports fills as they happen. Or import a statement from more than 90 brokers and prop firms — the format is detected automatically, and an unknown one you map once by hand and Evidence remembers it.
Try it before connecting anything
The demo runs the full app on sample data — no account, nothing saved, nothing connected.
Open the live demo → Create a free accountEvidence is a journal and an analysis tool. It does not give trading advice, does not copy trades, and cannot execute anything on your behalf.