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A trading journal focused on reviewing your real trades, not adding another trading platform to your workflow.

TraderSync combines trade journaling with analytics, AI coaching, market replay and backtesting tools.

RizeTrade takes a more focused approach.

Import your trades, review what happened, track whether you followed your rules and identify the behaviours affecting your performance.

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RizeTrade vs TraderSync

Both RizeTrade and TraderSync are built to help traders import, review and analyse their trading history.

Both offer broker syncing, journals, performance analytics, strategy tracking, AI-assisted analysis and historical trade charts.

The difference is where the products put their depth.

TraderSync extends beyond journaling into market replay, backtesting, Level II, Time & Sales and simulation.

RizeTrade puts more of its focus into the post-trade improvement loop:

  1. Strategy
  2. Rules
  3. Execution
  4. Discipline
  5. Review
FeatureRizeTradeTraderSync
Automatic Broker SyncYesYes
File ImportYesYes
Manual Trade EntryYesYes
Trading JournalYesYes
P&L CalendarYesYes
Historical Trade ChartsYesYes
Strategy TrackingYesYes
Trading RulesYesYes
Playbook Compliance ScoreYesStrategy Checker
Discipline TrackerYesAI / strategy tools
Consistency Heat MapYesNo
Emotion TrackingYesTags / journaling
Trade GradeYesNo
MAE & MFEYesYes
Best Exit AnalysisYesAnalytics
Exit Efficiency ScoreYesAnalytics
AI Trading AnalysisTrading Mentor AICypher
Auto-Generated Reports50+Advanced reporting
Market ReplayNoYes
Level II ReplayNoElite
Time & Sales ReplayNoElite
Starting Monthly PriceFree$29.95

Choose RizeTrade if your main goal is analysing and improving your actual trading process.

Choose TraderSync if market replay and simulation are major parts of how you train.

A Trading Journal Without the Extra Training Terminal

Review your trades without turning your journal into another trading platform

TraderSync has developed into much more than a traditional trading journal.

Its higher plans include tools such as:

  • Market replay
  • Detailed historical simulation
  • Level II
  • Time & Sales
  • Screeners
  • Options chains
  • Watchlists
  • Strategy playlists
  • AI coaching

Those tools make sense if you want your journal to double as a trading simulator.

But not every trader needs that.

RizeTrade is designed around a simpler question:

  • What happened in my actual trading, and what needs to improve?

Import the trades you already made and move directly into reviewing them.

The Notebook with daily journals, weekly and monthly reviews, lessons learned and trade notes in the sidebar

Make Your Trading Rules Measurable

Know whether you actually followed your strategy

A strategy can look unprofitable when the real problem is execution.

RizeTrade lets you create Strategy Playbooks containing the rules that define how the setup should be traded.

Add rules covering:

  • Entry criteria
  • Market conditions
  • Confirmation
  • Risk
  • Stop placement
  • Profit targets
  • Trade management
  • Exit criteria

Then review completed trades against the playbook.

RizeTrade calculates a Playbook Compliance Score so you can see how closely the trade followed the strategy you intended to execute.

That helps separate:

  • A bad strategy
  • from a badly executed strategy.
A setup's entry checklist behind the daily rules table, each rule showing how often it was followed

Track Your Discipline

Stop describing discipline. Start measuring it.

Most traders already know they need to follow their rules.

The useful question is whether they actually did.

RizeTrade's Discipline Tracker lets you monitor behaviours such as:

  • Maximum daily loss
  • Maximum number of trades
  • Risk limits
  • Trading hours
  • Setup requirements
  • Stop placement
  • Daily preparation
  • Post-trade review

Instead of finishing the week with another note saying “need to be more disciplined,” you can see exactly where the process broke down.

Daily rules table showing follow rates from 0% to 100% across seven rules

See Your Consistency Over Time

One disciplined trade doesn't tell you much

RizeTrade's Progress Tracker and consistency heat map let you review your process across days and weeks.

See when you consistently followed your rules.

See when your discipline started falling away.

Then compare those periods with your actual results.

You may find that your most profitable periods also had your highest rule compliance.

Or you may discover profitable periods where bad habits were quietly developing.

Both are useful to know.

A month of trading as a calendar, each day showing its trade count and profit or loss, with a weekly total column

Track Your Trading Emotions

Connect psychology with actual performance

Record emotions alongside individual trades.

Track things such as:

  • FOMO
  • Fear
  • Frustration
  • Revenge trading
  • Overconfidence
  • Boredom
  • Hesitation

Then analyse those trades against your performance.

Maybe FOMO trades have worse entries.

Maybe frustration leads to more trades.

Maybe fear causes you to close winners early.

RizeTrade keeps those behaviours connected to the underlying trading data instead of leaving them buried inside journal notes.

Emotion list open on a trade, with Calm selected from Fear, Greed, Anger, Hope and Regret

Grade the Trade Separately From the Result

Profit does not automatically mean good execution

A winning trade can break every rule you have.

A losing trade can be executed exactly according to plan.

RizeTrade's Trade Grade lets you evaluate the quality of your decision-making separately from the financial outcome.

That helps you identify which decisions should actually be repeated.

Because rewarding a bad trade simply because it made money is an easy way to build bad habits.

The journal editor with the A, B, C performance grade control magnified across the middle

Review Every Execution on the Chart

See how the trade actually developed

Open a completed trade and view your executions against the historical price chart.

See where you:

  • Entered
  • Added
  • Reduced
  • Exited
  • Placed your stop
  • Set your target

Instead of reviewing isolated fill prices, see what was happening in the market around each decision.

Combine the chart with your playbook, notes, emotions and trade grade to review the entire trade in context.

A past trade on a five-minute chart, its entry, exit, stop, target, risk and planned R lifted onto a strip across the middle

Analyse Your Trading Efficiency

See what happened after you entered

Finding a good entry is only one part of execution.

RizeTrade includes dedicated trade-management statistics such as:

  • R-Multiple
  • MAE
  • MFE
  • Best Exit Analysis
  • Exit Efficiency Score
  • Running P&L
  • Stop loss
  • Take profit
  • Drawdown

Use them to identify patterns such as:

  • Exiting winners too early
  • Giving back too much open profit
  • Holding losers too long
  • Using inefficient stops
  • Managing good setups badly

That helps you determine whether the problem is the setup itself or what you do after entering.

Trade efficiency at 66.1%, each bar showing the part of the move captured and the part left behind

50+ Reports Without Having to Build Your Own Analytics System

Your trade history is automatically broken down for you

RizeTrade generates more than 50 reports from your imported trading history.

Analyse your results by:

  • Date
  • Time
  • Symbol
  • Instrument
  • Strategy
  • Playbook
  • Tags
  • Risk
  • Position size
  • Price
  • Quantity
  • Trade duration
  • Wins and losses

Stack filters together when you want to investigate something specific.

For example:

  • How does this setup perform before 10:00 AM?
  • What happens when I follow every rule?
  • Which strategy has the highest exit efficiency?
  • How does my performance change after two losing trades?

The objective is not having the largest possible reporting menu.

It is finding the answer you need quickly.

An insight banner over a profit and loss breakdown by entry price, with a trade frequency donut beside it

Ask Trading Mentor AI

Ask your journal instead of manually searching it

RizeTrade's Trading Mentor AI lets you investigate your trading history using questions.

Ask:

  • “Which rules do I break most often?”
  • “When do I exit winning trades too early?”
  • “Which emotions appear on my worst trades?”
  • “Which strategy performs best when I follow all of its rules?”
  • “When does my performance deteriorate during the day?”

Your trade history already contains the data.

Trading Mentor AI gives you another way to interrogate it.

The Ask Trading Mentor AI box over a tag breakdown, with prompts for reviewing today's trades

Automatic Broker Sync

Your journal stays updated without manual data entry

Connect a supported broker or trading platform and automatically import your trades into RizeTrade.

You can also:

  • Upload CSV files
  • Enter trades manually
  • Import previous trading history
  • Separate multiple trading accounts
  • Track fees and commissions
  • Use multiple currencies

Once imported, your trades automatically become available across your journal, reports, charts, calendar and discipline tools.

The trades table listing imported fills, each with symbol, entry, exit, volume, net profit and R

Where TraderSync Is Stronger

TraderSync is a strong choice if simulation and replay are central to how you improve.

Depending on your plan, TraderSync currently offers:

  • Market Replay
  • Strategy playlists
  • Multi-asset backtesting
  • 1-minute, 1-second or 250ms replay precision
  • Level II
  • Time & Sales
  • Screeners
  • Watchlists
  • Options chains
  • Customisable simulator layouts
  • Cypher AI Assistant
  • Cypher AI Coach
  • Broad broker support

If you regularly replay historical sessions or want your journal to double as a sophisticated practice environment, TraderSync may be the better choice.

Where RizeTrade Makes More Sense

Choose RizeTrade if the problem is your live trading process

RizeTrade makes more sense if you're trying to answer:

  • Did I follow my plan?
  • Which rules do I keep breaking?
  • Which emotions affect my execution?
  • Am I managing my winners properly?
  • Do my strategies actually work when I follow them?
  • How consistent is my discipline?
  • What specifically should I improve next?

RizeTrade is designed around reviewing the trades you actually made and finding the behaviour behind the result.

You don't need to replay the entire market to discover that you keep breaking the same stop rule.

Sometimes you just need your journal to make the problem obvious.

A trading score broken into win, recovery, profit, risk, payoff and consistency, over a cumulative profit and loss curve

TraderSync Has More Simulation Tools. RizeTrade Stays Focused on the Journal.

That is the real difference.

TraderSync has expanded into a broad training ecosystem covering journaling, AI and detailed market replay.

RizeTrade stays closer to the daily improvement loop:

  1. 01

    Import your trades.

  2. 02

    Review your execution.

  3. 03

    Check your discipline.

  4. 04

    Find the pattern.

  5. 05

    Improve the next session.

If that's primarily what you want from a trading journal, the additional simulation tooling may not be necessary.

Free TraderSync Alternative

RizeTrade

RizeTrade

Free

  • Unlimited trading accounts
  • Broker auto-sync
  • Unlimited CSV imports
  • Strategy Playbooks
  • Playbook Compliance Score
  • Discipline Tracker
  • Progress Tracker
  • Consistency Heat Map
  • Emotion tracking
  • P&L Calendar
  • Daily journal
  • Historical trade charts
  • 50+ reports
  • MAE & MFE
  • Best Exit Analysis
  • Exit Efficiency Score
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Trading Mentor AI

$29/month

Adds an AI mentor that reads your trades. Everything else is free.

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TraderSync

TraderSync Pro

$29.95/month

Includes 5 accounts, Strategy Checker, unlimited trade imports, Cypher Assistant, limited daily Cypher messages and multi-asset market replay.

TraderSync Premium

$49.95/month

Adds unlimited accounts and Strategy Checkers, additional AI usage and more detailed market replay.

TraderSync Elite

$79.95/month

Adds TraderSync's most detailed replay experience, advanced market tools and Cypher Coach.

TraderSync also offers discounted annual billing.

Prices and plan limits can change, so check each platform's current pricing before subscribing.

TraderSync Alternative FAQs

Is RizeTrade a TraderSync alternative?

Yes.

RizeTrade and TraderSync both let traders automatically import trades, keep a trading journal, analyse strategies and review performance.

RizeTrade focuses heavily on structured trade review, playbook compliance, discipline and execution analysis.

TraderSync has a broader market-replay and simulation feature set.

Is RizeTrade cheaper than TraderSync?

RizeTrade is free. TraderSync Pro costs $29.95/month.

TraderSync Premium costs $49.95/month.

TraderSync also offers annual discounts.

Does RizeTrade automatically sync trades?

Yes.

RizeTrade supports automatic broker imports alongside CSV uploads and manual trade entry.

Does TraderSync have AI?

Yes.

TraderSync offers Cypher, including an AI Assistant and additional AI coaching functionality depending on plan.

RizeTrade offers Trading Mentor AI for asking questions about your own trading history.

Does RizeTrade track trading discipline?

Yes.

RizeTrade includes Strategy Playbooks, Playbook Compliance Scores, Discipline Tracker and Progress Tracker.

Does TraderSync track trading rules?

Yes.

TraderSync's Strategy Checker lets traders create trade plans using criteria such as time filters, risk rules and position limits.

The distinction is therefore not that TraderSync lacks rule tracking.

RizeTrade simply makes rule compliance and discipline a particularly prominent part of its review workflow.

Does RizeTrade have market replay?

RizeTrade is primarily built around reviewing your completed trading history on historical charts.

TraderSync has the stronger dedicated Market Replay product, including high-resolution replay and advanced market tools on higher plans.

If detailed simulation is a major part of your workflow, TraderSync may be the better choice.

Can I import old trades into RizeTrade?

Yes.

Connect a supported broker, upload CSV files or manually enter trades so your previous trading history can be included in your analysis.

Try RizeTrade as Your TraderSync Alternative

You don't necessarily need another simulator.

Sometimes you need a clearer picture of the trading you're already doing.

RizeTrade brings your trades, strategies, rules, discipline, emotions and execution into one review process so you can see what is working and what needs fixing.

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