An XAUUSD trading journal built for gold traders.

It is a record of every gold trade you take: entry, exit, lot size, P&L, the session, the setup and a note on how you executed. Reviewed weekly, it shows which gold setups and sessions actually make money and where you give it back. Dusk Analyst fills it in for you when your MT4, MT5, cTrader or NinjaTrader 8 account is synced, and works it out from lots when you type a trade in.

A standard gold lot is 100 ounces, so a $1 move in the gold price is worth $100 on 1 lot and $10 on 0.1 lot. A 0.5 lot trade from 2431.00 to 2442.40 is 11.40 × 100 × 0.5 = $570, before commission and swap. When your trades sync or import from MT4, MT5, cTrader, NinjaTrader or TradingView, Dusk Analyst uses the P&L your platform reports; for a trade you type in, it works it out from the lots this way.

Yes, our free Excel trading journal template works for gold. A spreadsheet means typing every trade and getting the 100-ounce lot maths right yourself, though. Dusk Analyst does both for you and adds the session and setup breakdowns, free for 2 accounts.

Gold is usually most active when London and New York overlap and around US data such as CPI, payrolls and Fed decisions, but what matters is when you trade it well. Tag each XAUUSD trade with its session and whether news was out, and after a few weeks your journal shows your own best and worst hours.

Yes. Export your order history from TradingView's Trading Panel and import the CSV. Symbols such as OANDA:XAUUSD come in as XAUUSD, with entry, exit, size, commission and P&L. See the TradingView trading journal for the steps.

Yes. The Free plan covers 2 accounts with manual entry, CSV import, tags, calendars and core analytics at $0, with no card. Pro at $25 a month adds auto-sync for MT4, MT5, cTrader and NinjaTrader 8, unlimited accounts and AI insights.

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, P&L 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/NinjaTrader auto-sync, AI insights on your trading (1,000 trade-analyses a month), monthly reports and full export, and every new account gets Pro free for 5 trading days with no card. The pricing is deliberately simple: one plan, one price, no per-feature upsells.

Yes, and it needs no card. Every new Dusk Analyst account gets Pro free for 5 trading days from sign-up: auto-sync from MT4, MT5, cTrader and NinjaTrader 8, AI Insights with 1,000 credits, monthly reports and unlimited accounts. After that Pro is $25/month, and you can cancel anytime from Billing in the app. If you skip it, the account moves to Free with every trade kept.

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, cTrader or NinjaTrader 8. For MT4/MT5/cTrader/NinjaTrader 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 the free Pro week (5 trading days, no card) includes the full monthly allowance.