LOG YOURCredit where it's due
Influences & credits
No one builds a trading process alone. LogYourTrade is an original piece of software, but the ideasit enforces were taught to me by coaches and mentors I respect deeply. I'd rather name them loudly than pretend I invented any of it — if this tool helps you, their work is part of why. Every book and link below points to their work. Go buy it.
The people
Jared Tendler
Performance & mental-game coach
His work is the backbone of how LogYourTrade treats the mind as part of the system. The A-game / B-game / C-game framework — and the inchworm concept, that you improve by raising your ceiling and lifting your floor at the same time — come straight from his published book. The way the app asks you to map, label and rate your mental state before and after a session is built directly on it.
Steven Goldstein
Trader performance coach · 25 yrs trading, 15+ coaching · co-host, AlphaMind podcast
A trader for nearly 25 years before spending 15+ as a performance coach to hedge funds and bank trading desks. His Performance Process cycle — Being → Production → Performance → Letting Go — is the spine of how the app frames the trade lifecycle, from preparation through execution to the post-trade reset and letting go of the outcome. If you only read one book behind this product, make it his.
TraderXO
Mentor
I'm a paying student. The process-first discipline — routines before entries, risk as the first job, trading your own conditions and validating an edge over a sample rather than a single trade — is the approach I learned working through his mentorship. LogYourTrade is my own software take on that discipline, not a copy of his materials: the published frameworks above are cited openly, and everything in this app is re-expressed and written from scratch as original code. No PDFs, worked examples or transcripts of his are reproduced here.
The frameworks it's built on
These are the published, public frameworks the product implements — in its own structure and its own code. Where a framework belongs to someone, they're named.
The mental game
A/B/C-game self-assessment and the inchworm model of steady improvement — used in the journal and review flows to separate process quality from PnL.
Jared Tendler — The Mental Game of Trading
The performance cycle
Being → Production → Performance → Letting Go. The four-stage spine behind preparation, execution, review and the post-trade reset.
Steven Goldstein — Mastering the Mental Game of Trading
Risk & position sizing
Expectancy, R-multiples, position size as a function of risk (not conviction), the 1–2% rule, and daily / weekly drawdown limits. Universal trading canon, in a hundred books — implemented here as original calculators.
Industry-standard risk management
Routines & checklists
Pre-market preparation routines, pre-trade checklists and structured trade journaling — standard discretionary-trading practice, enforced as a workflow instead of a habit you have to remember.
Standard discretionary practice
Market read
Top-down level mapping and context tools (market profile, VWAP, oscillator checks) that frame where price is before you decide to act.
Common discretionary technique
Process over outcome
The thread tying all of the above together: judge yourself on the quality of your decisions over a sample, not the result of any single trade.
Shared across all of the above
Further reading — the canon
The wider library every serious discretionary trader ends up reading. None of these are reproduced in the app — they're the shared canon the risk and psychology features draw on. Worth your money.
Trading in the Zone
Mark DouglasThe probabilistic mindset — thinking in samples, accepting uncertainty, and the belief work behind discipline. Underpins how the app frames every trade as one of many.
Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
Van K. TharpPosition sizing and expectancy as the core of professional trading — "trade for expectancy, not accuracy." The math behind the risk and expectancy calculators.
The Daily Trading Coach
Brett N. Steenbarger101 lessons on becoming your own trading psychologist — the self-coaching, review and journaling habits the app turns into a daily workflow.
Market Wizards
Jack D. SchwagerThe interviews that established the consensus this whole product rests on: methodology + mental attitude = consistency. (Goldstein’s AlphaMind is cited in the series.)
On originality:the frameworks above are published, public, and used across the trading world. The risk models, position-sizing math, routines, checklists and journaling in LogYourTrade are common-practice concepts expressed in my own way and written as original code. I don't reproduce anyone's paid materials, charts, worked examples or transcripts — those belong to the people who made them, and you should go buy them. The links above are the place to start.
If you're one of the educators above and want to talk — about a credit, a correction, or working together — I'd genuinely welcome it. Reach out