LynxTrades
vs TradeZella
Both pair a modern journal with broker imports, replay and AI. LynxTrades puts its complete paid feature set in one $160 annual plan. TradeZella spreads advanced automation across three higher-priced tiers.
Lynx Free$0/moNo card or time limitLynx Pro$13.33/mo · $160/yrBilled annually
TradeZella$26/mo · $315/yrEssential, billed annually$0 to start · No card required · Complete export on both Lynx plans
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TradeZellaOfficial product page| Capability | Lynx Free$0/moNo card or time limit | Lynx Pro$13.33/mo · $160/yrBilled annually | TradeZella$26/mo · $315/yrEssential, billed annually |
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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. | Not listed Essential includes one account; Pro includes 50 and Ultra is unlimited. |
| Automatic broker importFills arrive from a supported connection | Not listed | Included Up to six supported broker connections. | Included |
| 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 | Limited or higher tier Official support lists stocks, options, forex, crypto and select-exchange futures; commodities are not listed. |
| Multi-leg option groupingKeep spread legs together as one trade | Included Includes more than ten strategy presets. | Included | Limited or higher tier Merge and split tools are published; strategy grouping is not explicit. |
| 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 | Included |
| 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 |
| Mistake and emotion trackingConnect behavior to performance | Included | Included | Included |
| 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 | Included |
| 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. | Limited or higher tier PropFirm Sync tracks limits, targets and consistency percentages in real time; pass-probability simulation is not published. |
| 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. | Included Publishes trade sharing and full-journal Spaces for mentors and groups. |
| Analytics and risk | |||
| Customizable dashboardArrange the journal around the metrics you use | Included | Included | Included Widgets can be added, removed and rearranged, with saved dashboard templates. |
| Setup, symbol and session breakdownsFind where expectancy changes | Included | Included | Included |
| Behavior and rule-compliance analysisMeasure the cost of broken process | Included | Included | Included |
| 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 The Zella Score is computed from performance metrics; the Rule Adherence Score relies on tagging each trade as rules followed or broken. |
| 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 |
| 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 Automatic sizing is available in manual backtesting; a separate public calculator is also offered. |
| 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 | Limited or higher tier Replay availability is tiered; current official pages conflict on the entry tier. |
| Journal-history Monte CarloResample your own trade distribution across many paths | Not listed | Included Up to 10,000 runs. | Not listed A standalone manual-input calculator exists, but it does not resample journal history. |
| What-if strategy sandboxChange filters or rules against the existing journal | Not listed | Included | Not listed |
| 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. | Included Essential includes 500 AI credits a month and journal-aware chat. |
| AI coaching and performance reviewsTurn journal patterns into a focused review | Not listed | Included | Included Journal-aware AI is included with a monthly credit allowance. |
| 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. | Not listed |
| 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. | Limited or higher tier Essential can build a Start My Day plan; autonomous Game Plan and Market Sentiment agents require Pro or Ultra. |
| 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 A Market Sentiment Briefing agent is available on Pro and Ultra, but no source-linked personalized feed is published. |
- Included
- Limited or higher tier
- Not listed
Official sources
- TradeZella: Pricing, Pricing guide, Platform, Supported assets, Zella AI
Where TradeZella is strongest
TradeZella offers polished manual and automated backtesting, a large integration catalog, hundreds of reports, education and an established community. Its journal-linked AI is available across the range, with more credits and agents on higher tiers. Traders who want historical strategy testing or an education ecosystem have a solid reason to choose it.
Visit the official TradeZella siteThe differences
that change the decision.
Price is only useful beside the exact tier and feature. These points use TradeZella's current published plans and LynxTrades' implemented limits.
$160 a year for the complete Lynx plan
Lynx Pro is $13.33 a month when billed at $160 annually. TradeZella Essential is currently $26 a month when billed at $315 annually, while Pro and Ultra cost more. That makes the standard annual bill $155 lower before comparing higher tiers.
One paid tier instead of three
Broker sync, Monte Carlo, risk tools, the prop firm command center, weekly reviews, shareable reports, the trade assistant, coaching and personalized news are all in Lynx Pro. TradeZella reserves features such as AI agents, AI auto-tagging and automated backtesting for Pro or Ultra.
Simulation or historical backtesting
LynxTrades resamples your own journal with Monte Carlo and lets you test changes in a what-if sandbox. TradeZella tests rules against historical market data and is ahead when that is the main job.
Choose for your
actual workflow.
The right journal is the one whose strongest tools match the work you repeat every week.
Choose TradeZella
Choose TradeZella if historical backtesting, a broad education library or its community is central to what you want from the subscription.
Choose LynxTrades
Choose LynxTrades if you want a lower annual bill, one complete paid tier, a useful free plan and risk simulation built around the trades you actually took.