GridTrade vs Tradervue

Both, but the design is the real story. Tradervue is a genuinely capable, long-established journal with mature broker auto-import, shareable journaling reports and a community built over more than a decade — for many traders it does exactly what they need. The price gap exists partly because we're a solo-founded EU operation without VC overhead, yet cost is not the point we'd lead with. GridTrade is built emotion-first, filter-heavy and funded-account-native: you log how you felt on every trade, stack up to nine filters at once, and run FTMO, Apex and live accounts side by side. If you're happy with how Tradervue works today, switching for price alone probably isn't worth the friction. But if those three differences — structured emotion, combinable filters, native multi-account — describe what you've been missing, the migration is comfortably worth one focused weekend.

Not yet via a direct integration. Tradervue's own export is one of its genuine strengths — it lets you pull your full trade history out as CSV cleanly, so your data is never locked in, and we respect that. On the GridTrade side, import is currently manual by design: when you move trades across, we want you to re-touch each one and add the emotion score and notes that make our journal useful, which naturally forces a review pass over your past behaviour. That's deliberate rather than a missing feature, but we understand it doesn't scale for everyone. A CSV import that maps Tradervue's export fields is on our roadmap, aimed first at traders carrying 500 or more historical trades who reasonably don't want to re-enter years of records by hand. Until then, most migrating traders start fresh from a chosen date and backfill only their key setups.

You're well covered. GridTrade is asset-agnostic, with built-in presets for NQ, ES, MNQ, MES, BTC, Gold and EUR/USD, plus full custom-ticker support — define your own tick value and tick size and your PnL and R-multiple calculate automatically on every entry. Tradervue is a strong, proven tool and does handle instruments beyond US stocks, with particularly mature auto-import for US equity brokers, so if that's the core of your trading it remains a fair choice worth verifying on their site. Where GridTrade tends to fit more cleanly is the mixed futures, crypto and FX trader who wants one consistent journal across all of it without wrestling instrument mappings. Because emotion tracking, R-multiples and the nine combinable filters work identically whatever you trade, a NQ scalper, a BTC swing trader and a EUR/USD session trader all get the same review workflow rather than an equities-shaped one bent to fit.

On Hetzner data centers in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Supabase EU region — everything stays inside the EU. It's fully GDPR-compliant with row-level security scoped per user, which means nobody but you can read your trades, not even us. Tradervue is a US-based company and has operated reliably for a long time, so US hosting is not a problem in itself and plenty of traders are perfectly comfortable with it; you should confirm the current specifics of their data handling on their own site. The distinction we'd draw is jurisdictional rather than a quality judgement: if EU data-residency, GDPR guarantees or simply keeping your trading records under European privacy law matter to you — because you're EU-based or work under a prop firm that expects it — GridTrade is the cleaner answer. If none of that is a concern for you, it shouldn't be a deciding factor between the two tools.

No permanent free tier, but a 14-day full-access trial that needs no credit card to start. Tradervue's free plan is a real advantage if your priority is journaling a modest number of trades at no cost indefinitely, and for some traders that alone makes it the better starting point — check their current free-tier limits on their site, as those can change. We made a different call. Rather than a limited free version where the features you'd most want are gated behind an upgrade, GridTrade opens everything — emotion tracking, all nine filters, multi-account, every asset preset — for the full trial so you judge the complete product. After day 14 you either upgrade for a flat €24.99 per month or simply leave the account idle: your data stays preserved and you're never charged. It's one simple single-tier model instead of tier-shopping, which suits traders who'd rather not compare feature matrices before committing.