Comparison
Traily vs a spreadsheet
Most traders start in a sheet, and a sheet you actually fill in beats a tool you abandon. But there are three things a sheet structurally cannot do, and they are the three that matter most when you are tilting.
| Traily | A spreadsheet | |
|---|---|---|
| Stops you before the trade | A checklist you clear before entering, with a sixty second pause when you say you feel rushed | Nothing runs before a trade. A sheet is written afterwards |
| Gives each trade a verdict on your own rules | Cleared, broke a rule, or never gated | Only if you type it, honestly, after the fact |
| Colours the day by discipline rather than by money | Yes, and money can never touch it | Conditional formatting on profit and loss, which is the opposite |
| Shows somebody else your discipline without your balance | Yes, a buddy or a team, never an amount | Sharing the sheet shares everything in it |
| Analytics without building them | Expectancy, profit factor, excursion, adherence by instrument, session, weekday and setup | Whatever you have built, and whatever you maintain |
| Works on your phone at the desk | Yes, web plus iOS and Android | Technically |
| Breaks when you rename a column | No | Yes |
The honest part
The sheet is not the problem. The timing is.
A spreadsheet is written after the trade, by the version of you who already knows how it went. That person is calm, and reasonable, and completely unable to help the person who took the trade forty minutes earlier.
Everything Traily does that a sheet cannot comes from moving the writing to before the click. Once the verdict exists in advance, the streak means something, the day colour means something, and you can hand somebody else a view of your discipline without handing them your account.
Questions
I have years of history in my sheet. Do I lose it?
No. Export it as CSV, map the columns once, and it comes in. Those trades arrive marked never gated, which is honest: the sheet cannot prove what you checked before entering.
My sheet is genuinely good though.
Then keep it. A sheet you actually fill in beats a tool you abandon. What a sheet cannot do is stop you before the trade, colour a day by rules rather than money, or let somebody else watch your discipline without seeing your balance.
Keep the sheet if you want. Bring the history anyway.
Export it as CSV, map the columns once, and see the same trades with a verdict attached.
Free while we build it. No card, no download, no broker connection.