LynxTrades
vs Edgewonk
Edgewonk is the psychology specialist. LynxTrades combines behavioral review with replay, live position analysis, quantitative risk tools and a conversational assistant for $160 a year.
Lynx Free$0/moNo card or time limitLynx Pro$13.33/mo · $160/yrBilled annually
Edgewonk$197/16 moLimited-time offer, billed every 16 months$0 to start · No card required · Complete export on both Lynx plans
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EdgewonkOfficial product page| Capability | Lynx Free$0/moNo card or time limit | Lynx Pro$13.33/mo · $160/yrBilled annually | Edgewonk$197/16 moLimited-time offer, billed every 16 months |
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| Import and market coverage | |||
| No plan-level trade creation capThe subscription does not meter how many trades you create | Included Creation is uncapped; journal views load a bounded working set. | Included Creation is uncapped; journal views load a bounded working set. | Included |
| Multiple trading accountsKeep separate books under one login | Included Two accounts. | Included Unlimited accounts. | Included Unlimited journals and accounts. |
| Automatic broker importFills arrive from a supported connection | Not listed | Included Up to six supported broker connections. | Limited or higher tier Direct auto-sync is published for MT4 and MT5; many other brokers use files. |
| AI-assisted CSV mappingMaps recognized broker-export columns into the journal | Not listed | Included Arbitrary-format normalization is limited to six imports a day, two an hour and roughly 500 KB per file. | Not listed |
| Six-market coverageStocks, options, futures, forex, crypto and commodities | Included | Included | Included |
| Multi-leg option groupingKeep spread legs together as one trade | Included Includes more than ten strategy presets. | Included | Not listed |
| Executions and partial fillsPreserve scaling in and out instead of flattening the trade | Included | Included | Included |
| Commission and fee trackingCalculate net results after trading costs | Included | Included | Included |
| Journal and trading process | |||
| Rich-text notes and templatesRepeat a consistent review without starting from a blank page | Included | Included | Limited or higher tier Rich-text Notebook tools are documented; reusable note templates are not published. |
| Screenshots and attachmentsKeep visual evidence beside the trade | Included 50 MB storage, three screenshots per trade and three attachments per note. | Included 1 GB storage, ten screenshots per trade and ten attachments per note. | Included |
| Setups and dedicated playbooksStore the rules behind a repeatable trade | Included | Included | Included |
| Per-trade risk-profile checklistComplete the global risk checklist on each trade | Included A global risk-profile checklist can be completed per trade; setup conditions remain reference lists. | Included A global risk-profile checklist can be completed per trade; setup conditions remain reference lists. | Included Checklists and discipline tracking are core features. |
| Mistake and emotion trackingConnect behavior to performance | Included | Included | Included Includes mistakes, discipline, report cards and Tiltmeter tools. |
| P&L calendar with day drill-downMove from month to the trades behind one session | Included | Included | Included |
| Prop-firm rule trackingTargets and drawdown rules by evaluation account | Included Eight presets plus Custom are included. | Included | Not listed |
| Challenge headroom and pass-odds analyticsRoom before a breach today, consistency headroom and pass probability | Limited or higher tier The dashboard widget tracks limits and room; the command-center tab and pass odds are Pro. | Included Room across both limits at once, consistency headroom under total-profit and winning-days denominators, a pre-trade floor planner and pass probability resampled from the phase at four sizes. | Not listed |
| Per-account JSON backup and restoreStructured account data plus a separate CSV trade export | Included Includes one selected account plus shared journal objects; media files, settings, dashboard layout and broker connections are excluded. | Included Includes one selected account plus shared journal objects; media files, settings, dashboard layout and broker connections are excluded. | Not listed |
| Shareable read-only performance pageA page a non-user can open, on your terms | Not listed | Included A frozen, encrypted snapshot at its own link: amounts can be hidden entirely, links can be password-protected, every link expires and any link can be revoked. Never the live journal. | Limited or higher tier Journal sharing is read-only and requires the recipient to be an Edgewonk user. |
| Analytics and risk | |||
| Customizable dashboardArrange the journal around the metrics you use | Included | Included | Included Customize mode reorders and selects performance tiles, charts and calendar sections. |
| Setup, symbol and session breakdownsFind where expectancy changes | Included | Included | Included |
| Behavior and rule-compliance analysisMeasure the cost of broken process | Included | Included | Included Psychology and discipline analysis are category-leading strengths. |
| Auto-detected rule-break scoringViolations found from your configured rules, not self-tagged | Not listed | Included Eight auto-trackable rule types are checked against every closed trade as at trade open, scored, and priced by comparing clean and violating trades. | Limited or higher tier Discipline analytics and the Tiltmeter read trader-entered classifications; automatic detection from configured numeric rules is not published. |
| Day-and-time performance analysisCompare results by weekday and hour | Not listed | Included | Included |
| MAE and MFE excursion analysisSee adverse and favorable movement inside a trade | Not listed | Included | Included |
| Captured MFE and target comparisonCompare the exit with favorable movement and the recorded target | Included Shows captured MFE and comparison with the recorded target, not an ideal-exit optimizer. | Included Shows captured MFE and comparison with the recorded target, not an ideal-exit optimizer. | Included Best-exit analysis is a published feature. |
| Drawdown, streak and risk metricsTrack the shape of returns, not only the average | Included | Included | Included |
| Live-quote P&L on supported open positionsRefresh current positions inside the journal | Not listed | Included Refreshes on a 30-second cooldown; excludes multi-leg options and futures without a quote proxy. | Not listed |
| Stock and futures position sizingTranslate account risk into quantity before entry | Included Supports stocks and futures, including CME and custom point values. | Included Supports stocks and futures, including CME and custom point values. | Limited or higher tier Position-size and risk calculations are referenced, but a dedicated pre-entry calculator is not documented. |
| Visible Kelly sizing analysisFull, half and quarter Kelly from journal results | Not listed | Included | Not listed |
| Replay and testing | |||
| Simulated trade replayRe-run a session without changing the live journal | Included | Included | Not listed |
| Journal-history Monte CarloResample your own trade distribution across many paths | Not listed | Included Up to 10,000 runs. | Limited or higher tier Performance Simulator uses journal-derived win rate and average gain and loss; its docs do not describe trade-by-trade resampling. |
| What-if strategy sandboxChange filters or rules against the existing journal | Not listed | Included | Included Alternative-strategy analysis is included. |
| AI on the trading record | |||
| Conversational recent-trade Q&AAsk about recent trades and derived analytics | Included Three lifetime Onyx messages. | Included Up to 200 Onyx messages a day, using at most 50 recent trades plus derived metrics. Standalone notes are not included. | Not listed |
| AI coaching and performance reviewsTurn journal patterns into a focused review | Not listed | Included | Limited or higher tier Edge Finder provides an automated weekly journal review, but not conversational coaching. |
| Scheduled written weekly reviewThe closed week reviewed on your own schedule | Not listed | Included Delivered on your chosen weekday, hour and timezone, quoting your own journal entries, with an email option, an archive, and a plain-figures fallback when the AI is unavailable. | Included Edge Finder emails an automated analysis of the week every Sunday. |
| Current-field AI trade suggestionsReview the symbol, selected setup and emotion before entry | Not listed | Included Suggestions use the current symbol, selected setup and emotion, not the trader's full history. | Not listed |
| Source-linked personalized news feedFocus reporting on symbols found in the journal | Not listed | Included Uses traded symbols and links each item to its original news source. | Not listed |
- Included
- Limited or higher tier
- Not listed
Official sources
- Edgewonk: Pricing, Features, Trading psychology, Changelog, Edge Finder
Where Edgewonk is strongest
Edgewonk treats psychology as the center of the journal. Mistake tracking, discipline scores, checklists, report cards, Tiltmeter and its Edge Finder are deeper than the behavior layer in most competitors. Its performance and alternative-strategy analysis also make the subscription strong for deliberate post-trade review.
Visit the official Edgewonk siteThe differences
that change the decision.
Price is only useful beside the exact tier and feature. These points use Edgewonk's current published plans and LynxTrades' implemented limits.
Replay, open-position P&L and quantitative risk
LynxTrades includes simulated replay on Free, then adds live-quote P&L for supported positions, journal-history Monte Carlo and visible Kelly sizing analysis on Pro. Edgewonk focuses more heavily on review after a trade closes.
Option spreads stay together
Both products cover options. LynxTrades also groups multi-leg strategies as one position with more than ten presets, which matters when the unit of review is the spread rather than each contract.
Conversational analysis
Onyx answers questions from up to 50 recent trades and derived analytics, drafts performance reviews and supports coaching and current-field pre-entry suggestions. Both products now write an automated weekly review; Lynx also lets you pick the weekday, hour and timezone, quotes your own journal back, and keeps an archive. Edgewonk does not publish a comparable conversational AI layer.
Choose for your
actual workflow.
The right journal is the one whose strongest tools match the work you repeat every week.
Choose Edgewonk
Choose Edgewonk if discipline, psychology and structured behavior correction are the primary problems you want the journal to solve.
Choose LynxTrades
Choose LynxTrades if you want behavioral review alongside option-spread grouping, replay, supported-position live analysis, quantitative simulation and recent-trade AI.