Account & Plans

FCPO Journal offers three plans — all priced in Malaysian Ringgit with no hidden fees.

Upgrading Your Plan

Go to Settings → Billing in the app. Payments are processed via Razorpay Curlec — you can pay with FPX Online Banking, Touch 'n Go, or credit/debit card. All prices are in MYR.

Cancelling

You can cancel anytime from Settings. Your plan remains active until the end of the current billing period. After that, your account downgrades to Free — all your trade data is preserved, but Pro/Elite features become locked.

Logging Trades

The trade journal is the core of FCPO Journal. Every trade you log builds the dataset that powers your analytics.

Creating a New Trade

Click the "+ New Trade" button on the journal page. Fill in the trade details:

• Date — The date you took the trade
• Direction — Long (buy first) or Short (sell first)
• Entry Price — Your fill price (e.g., 4,300)
• Exit Price — Your exit fill (e.g., 4,340)
• Contracts — Number of lots traded
• Stop Loss — Where your stop was placed (enables R-multiple calculation)

Auto-Calculated Fields

Once you save a trade, the journal automatically calculates:

Editing & Deleting Trades

Click any trade row to open the detail modal. Click "Edit" to modify the trade, or "Delete" to remove it permanently. Deleted trades cannot be recovered.

Trade Fields Explained

Understanding each field and why it matters for your analytics.

CSV Import & Export

Import existing trades from a spreadsheet or export your FCPO Journal data for backup.

Importing Trades

Go to Settings → Import. Upload a CSV file with columns matching your trade fields. The importer supports flexible column naming and will map common headers automatically.

Required CSV Columns

• date — Trade date (YYYY-MM-DD or DD/MM/YYYY)
• direction or side — "Long" / "Short" / "Buy" / "Sell"
• entry or entry_price — Entry price
• exit or exit_price — Exit price
• contracts or qty or lots — Number of contracts

Optional CSV Columns

• stop_loss or sl
• take_profit or tp
• strategy
• notes
• commission

Exporting Trades

Go to Settings → Export. Your entire trade history is downloaded as a CSV file that you can open in Excel, Google Sheets, or any spreadsheet tool.

Trade Chart Modal

Click any trade in your journal to open a full-screen interactive chart powered by TradingView's lightweight-charts engine.

What You See

• Candlestick chart showing OHLCV price action around your trade date
• Entry marker — a green (long) or red (short) arrow at your entry price and time
• Exit marker — shows where you closed the position
• Stop loss line — horizontal dashed line at your stop price (if set)
• Take profit line — horizontal dashed line at your target price (if set)
• Trade geometry — shaded region showing your risk and reward zones

Timeframes

Switch between 10 timeframes using the buttons at the top of the chart:

Drawing Tools

Annotate your charts with professional drawing tools — just like TradingView.

Available Tools

Using Drawing Tools

1. Click the drawing tool icon in the chart toolbar
2. Select your tool from the menu
3. Click on the chart to place anchor points
4. Right-click any drawing to change colour, style, or delete it

Drawings are saved per-trade — when you reopen the same trade, your annotations are still there.

Technical Indicators

Add professional indicators to your chart for post-trade analysis. Click the "Indicators" button in the chart toolbar.

Overlay Indicators

These draw directly on the candlestick chart:

• SMA — Simple Moving Average (default: 20-period)
• EMA — Exponential Moving Average (default: 20-period)
• Bollinger Bands — Upper, middle, lower bands (default: 20-period, 2 std dev)
• Ichimoku Cloud — Tenkan, Kijun, Senkou A/B, Chikou spans
• VWAP — Volume Weighted Average Price
• SuperTrend — Trend-following indicator with dynamic support/resistance

Lower Panel Indicators

These appear in separate panels below the chart:

• Volume — Bar chart showing trade volume per candle
• MACD — Moving Average Convergence Divergence with signal line and histogram
• RSI — Relative Strength Index with overbought/oversold levels (70/30)
• Stochastic — %K and %D lines with overbought/oversold levels (80/20)

Customising Indicators

Click the settings icon next to any active indicator to adjust parameters (period, colours, line thickness). Click the "x" to remove it from the chart.

Uploading Chart Data

Upload your own OHLCV data to power the charts with your broker's exact price feed.

How It Works

FCPO Journal comes with default chart data. If you want charts to reflect your broker's exact prices, you can upload CSV files with OHLCV data for any timeframe.

CSV Format

Your CSV must have these columns (TradingView export format is supported):

• time — Unix timestamp (seconds), or ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD or datetime)
• open — Open price
• high — High price
• low — Low price
• close — Close price
• volume — Volume (optional, defaults to 0)

Uploading

1. Go to Settings → Chart Data
2. Select the timeframe (e.g., 5m, 15m, 1D)
3. Upload your CSV file
4. The data replaces the default data for that timeframe

Dashboard Overview

Your analytics dashboard turns raw trade data into actionable insights. Here's what each section shows.

Summary Cards

At the top of the dashboard, you'll see key performance metrics:

Equity Curve

A line chart showing your cumulative P&L over time. The slope of this line tells you whether your edge is consistent or streaky.

Filters

Filter your analytics by date range, strategy, session, direction, or any combination. This lets you isolate which parts of your trading are working and which aren't.

R-Multiples & Expectancy

The most important metrics in your trading journal — and how FCPO Journal calculates them.

What Is R?

R = your initial risk on the trade, measured in ringgit. It's the distance from entry to stop loss, multiplied by RM 25 per point, multiplied by the number of contracts.

How It's Calculated

For a Long trade: R = (Entry - Stop Loss) × RM 25 × Contracts

For a Short trade: R = (Stop Loss - Entry) × RM 25 × Contracts

Your R-multiple for the trade = Net P&L ÷ R

Expectancy

Expectancy = (Win% × Avg Win R) - (Loss% × Avg Loss R)

A positive expectancy means your system makes money over time. The higher the expectancy, the stronger your edge. FCPO Journal calculates this automatically across all your trades (or any filtered subset).

MAE / MFE Analysis

Maximum Adverse Excursion and Maximum Favorable Excursion — the metrics that tell you if your stops and targets are optimally placed.

MAE (Maximum Adverse Excursion)

The furthest a trade moved against you before it closed. If you bought at 4,300 and the price dipped to 4,288 before rallying to your target, your MAE = 12 points.

MFE (Maximum Favorable Excursion)

The furthest a trade moved in your favor before it closed. If you bought at 4,300 and price hit 4,360 before you exited at 4,340, your MFE = 60 points.

What They Tell You

• MAE vs. Stop Distance: If your MAE is consistently much smaller than your stop, your stop may be too wide — you're risking more than necessary.
• MFE vs. Actual Exit: If MFE consistently exceeds your exit by a large margin, you're leaving money on the table — consider trailing stops or wider targets.
• MAE on Losers: How far losing trades went against you before stopping out. If many losers had small MAE before reversing, your stop might be in the wrong spot.

Coach Setup

The Elite plan includes a full coaching platform. Set up your coach profile and start managing students.

Becoming a Coach

1. Subscribe to the Elite plan
2. Contact our team to request Tutor role activation for your account
3. Once activated, go to Coach → Profile to set your invite code (a short slug like coach-ali)
4. Share your invite link: fcpojournal.com/app.html?invite=coach-ali

Invite Code

Your invite code is a unique short URL slug (3-30 characters, letters/numbers/hyphens only). When a new user registers through your invite link, they're automatically linked to you as a pending student.

Inviting Existing Users

If a student already has an account, go to Coach → Invite and enter their email address. They'll appear in your student list as "pending" until you approve them.

Managing Students

Manage your coaching roster, share lessons, and organise your student cohort.

Student Statuses

What Coaches Can Do

• View student list with name, email, plan, and active status
• Approve or revoke student access
• Create and publish lessons for their student cohort
• Invite existing users by email
• Share a personal invite link for new user registration

What Coaches Cannot See

• Student's trade journal or trade data
• Student's analytics, P&L, or equity curve
• Student's account settings or billing information
• Student's password or authentication details
• Other coaches' students

Playbook & Strategies

Define your trading strategies and tag every trade — then see exactly which strategies are making you money.

Creating a Strategy

Go to Settings → Playbook. Click "+ New Strategy" and define:

• Name — e.g., "Morning Breakout", "Pullback to EMA20", "VWAP Bounce"
• Description — Your rules for this setup (entry criteria, exit plan, conditions)
• Rules checklist — A list of conditions that must be true before taking this trade

Tagging Trades

When logging a trade, select a strategy from your playbook. This tag links the trade to that strategy in your analytics.

Strategy Analytics

In the dashboard, filter by strategy to see per-strategy performance: win rate, expectancy, average R, profit factor, and more. This tells you which setups are actually profitable and which ones you should stop trading.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Speed up your workflow with keyboard shortcuts.