Dusk Analyst vs Edgewonk — auto-sync, not another import.

Edgewonk positions itself as the journal that 'turns your data into profits.' Its own site leads with Chart Lab + Analytics, an automated Edge Finder that scans your journal for strengths, weaknesses and the biggest opportunities to improve, and a Trading Psychology Lab — with separate pages for new, breakeven and profitable traders. For data-driven self-review it is a serious power tool.

Edgewonk's own headline says 'Import your trades in seconds' — a workflow built around getting data in. Dusk Analyst Pro instead auto-syncs the MT4, MT5 and cTrader terminals: every closed trade logs itself the moment it closes, with AI insights and weekly reports. Pricing is published and simple — $0 free tier with two accounts, $25 per month Pro. Data is stored on Cloudflare, identity is handled by Auth0, billing by Stripe, and the AI that answers your insight questions runs on DeepSeek.

We can't quote Edgewonk's price — our 2026 audit captured no amounts from its pages. What its own copy shows is a buy-oriented model: 'BUY NOW' CTAs, a pricing page, and an offer to 'claim your 3 free months.' Dusk Analyst's model is published: Free at $0 with no card required, Pro at $25 per month, no setup fees, cancel anytime.

Both target forex — Edgewonk's own title is 'Best Trading Journal for Forex, Stocks, Futures, Crypto.' The honest difference is mechanics: Edgewonk centers on imports, while Dusk Analyst Pro pushes closed trades straight out of the MT4, MT5 or cTrader terminal over HTTPS with a per-account API key. Data is stored on Cloudflare, identity is handled by Auth0, billing by Stripe, and the AI that answers your insight questions runs on DeepSeek. The EA or cBot is read-only — it never places orders or touches your charts.

Every entry and exit, the size, the P&L, the strategy, and a note on why you took the trade — plus tags and calendars for review. Dusk Analyst structures all of it and computes win rate, profit factor and weekly reports automatically. Free covers two accounts with manual entry, CSV import, tags, calendars, core analytics and weekly report export; Pro at $25 per month adds unlimited accounts, auto-sync, AI insights and full export.

Dusk Analyst is a flat $25/month for Pro with unlimited accounts, auto-sync, AI insights and weekly reports - plus a genuinely usable free tier (two accounts, no card), and Pro has a free trial of up to 30 days (card required). Edgewonk's pricing varies by plan and feature set; the comparison section on this page lists the current tiers so you can check the numbers yourself. The short version: one flat price vs tiered plans, and a free tier that isn't a trial.

The core difference is how trades get in. Dusk Analyst auto-syncs MT4, MT5 and cTrader with read-only connectors - no CSV exports, no manual re-entry on Pro - while Edgewonk relies on the import path you choose. Dusk Analyst also adds AI insights on your own trading patterns and keeps pricing flat. Both are cloud journals with good review tooling; the side-by-side section above covers pricing, features and sync paths.

Yes - Dusk Analyst's free tier doesn't lock you in. Start journaling with two accounts at $0; if Edgewonk suits you better, export your history and move on. If you want to compare side by side first, CSV import on the free tier lets you mirror recent trades into both and see which workflow you actually stick with.

Yes. The free tier costs $0 forever and includes two accounts, manual trade entry and CSV import - enough to journal a live account properly, with win rate, expectancy, drawdown and equity curve all calculated for you. There is no credit card required to start. Pro ($25/month flat) adds unlimited accounts, MT4/MT5/cTrader auto-sync, AI insights on your trading (1,000 trade-analyses a month), monthly reports and full export, and has a free trial of up to 30 days (card required). The pricing is deliberately simple: one plan, one price, no per-feature upsells.

Yes. Dusk Analyst Pro has a free trial of up to 30 days: 30 days if you start it within an hour of signing up, 15 days within 24 hours. A card is required to start it, nothing is charged on the day it starts, and when the trial ends Pro is $25/month unless you cancel. We email you a reminder before the trial ends. You can cancel anytime from Billing in the app; cancelling during the trial ends it straight away, nothing is charged, and your account goes back to the Free plan with every trade kept. There is one trial per account. The trial includes everything in Pro: MT4, MT5 and cTrader auto-sync, monthly reports, unlimited account books, 1,000 AI credits a month for AI Insights and CSV export. Start it in the app at app.duskanalyst.com, where it is offered whenever you open a Pro feature such as Connectors, and from the plan card in the sidebar. The Free plan is separate: it needs no card and stays free forever.

Yes - CSV import is available on every plan, including free. If you've been tracking trades in a spreadsheet, broker export or another journal, export the CSV from wherever it lives and import it into Dusk Analyst; the journal matches it against your accounts and keeps your history continuous. Import is also the fallback for platforms that don't run MT4, MT5 or cTrader. For MT4/MT5/cTrader terminals, Pro auto-syncs going forward and the EA backfills any trades your terminal missed while it was off. Any platform that exports a CSV of your trade history works. Dusk Analyst recognises TradingView, Tradovate, cTrader, MT4 and MT5 exports on sight; for anything else you map your columns once and that parser is saved for next time. Comma, semicolon and tab files are all handled, day-first and month-first dates are detected from the file itself, and any row that cannot be read is listed for you rather than dropped quietly.

Pro includes 1,000 AI trade-analyses every month. One credit covers one trade, so asking a question about a 40-trade week costs 40 credits and you can keep asking. The allowance resets on the 1st of each month and the counter sits in the top bar of the app, so you always know where you stand. Narrowing a question to one account or a shorter date range makes the same allowance go much further. Free accounts get a small number of AI credits to try AI Insights, alongside the full journal, analytics and weekly reports, and Pro's free trial (up to 30 days) includes the full monthly allowance.