Chartself
Summary
You know you revenge trade. You've known for months. The problem is that knowing it in the abstract and seeing '$2,230 this week, both times in the two o'clock hour' are different things — Chartself is built for the second one.
Chartself imports your broker history via CSV or direct sync, then runs pattern detection against your own rows: revenge trades flagged by time between a stop-out and your next entry, losing windows surfaced by hour and session, rule breaks scored against limits you define yourself. The dollar cost attaches to every flag, so the habit isn't abstract anymore. The AI query layer requires you to bring your own API key and answers questions in plain English from your actual trade data. The ceiling appears when you want to build custom analytics or pipe results into an external dashboard — the API is a paid-only feature, and the broker sync list is still growing.
Bottom line: Pick this if you're a discretionary trader who keeps repeating a losing habit and needs the number attached to it; reconsider if your workflow depends on a broker that isn't yet supported or if you need to push data downstream into your own tooling on day one.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Free Tier
- Unlimited trade journaling on the free plan
Free
Unlimited trade journaling, dashboard, calendar, equity curve, CSV import, playbook notes
- Unlimited journaling
- Dashboard and calendar
- CSV import
Pro
Revenge-trade detection, advanced analytics, psychology AI insights with BYOK, broker sync
- Revenge-trade detection
- Advanced analytics
- AI insights
Elite
Everything in Pro plus API access and higher broker sync limits
- API access
- Higher sync limits
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Revenge-trade detection tracks the clock between a loss and your next entry, then attaches a running dollar cost, so the habit stops living in your head and lands on a number you can't ignore.
- Time-of-day leak analysis breaks win rate down to the hour and session, which means the window where you consistently give profits back stops hiding inside a monthly average that looks acceptable.
- User-defined risk rules scored against every trade, so breaking your own position-size or daily-loss limit produces a visible cost rather than a discipline failure you rationalize away.
- Bring-your-own-API-key AI query layer answers plain-English questions from your actual rows, and the vendor states your data does not train any model — so traders with sensitive position data avoid the usual privacy tradeoff.
- CSV import accepts any broker's export format, so traders aren't blocked by whether their broker is on the direct-sync list before they can see their first pattern read.
Cons
Sign in to edit- Direct broker sync covers a subset of brokers and the list is described as growing, so traders on unsupported brokers fall back to manual CSV uploads — workable for weekly reviews, friction-heavy for traders who journal after every session.
- The AI query layer and advanced analytics are paid-only features; traders who sign up on the free tier to evaluate pattern detection won't see those capabilities until they upgrade, which makes the free tier a journaling habit tool rather than a full pattern-catching evaluation.
- API access to your own data is gated to the top paid tier only, so teams wanting to pipe Chartself flags into an external dashboard or risk system hit a hard wall — at that integration requirement, teams with engineering capacity typically move to building on top of a raw data warehouse where they own the schema.
- The tool performs passive, one-shot analysis on imported history and does not execute trades, send alerts in real time, or monitor live positions, so traders looking for in-session warnings rather than post-session reviews need a different layer alongside it.
About
- Platforms
- Web
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-08-16T13:58:52.017Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Active traders reviewing personal history
- Users wanting dollar-cost flags on habits
- Traders importing broker data for analysis
What it does well
- Detecting revenge trading after losses
- Identifying time-of-day performance leaks
- Tracking adherence to risk management rules
- Analyzing performance by setup and session
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Sign Up to ContributeFrequently Asked Questions
- Is Chartself free?
- Chartself has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades. You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Chartself open source?
- No — Chartself is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does Chartself have an API?
- Yes. Chartself exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://chartself.com for details.
- What platforms does Chartself support?
- Chartself is available on: Web.
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Knowing revenge trading happens is not the same as seeing its dollar cost
Chartself imports broker history via CSV or direct sync and flags patterns in the data: revenge trades measured by time between a stop-out and the next entry, losing windows broken down by hour and session, and rule breaks scored against limits the user sets. Every flag carries an attached dollar cost so the habit becomes a concrete number rather than an abstract feeling. The AI query layer answers plain-English questions about the trade data once the user supplies their own API key.
Limitations on custom work and access
The vendor states the API is available only on the top paid tier, so users who need to pipe results into external dashboards or build custom analytics must upgrade. Direct broker sync covers a subset of brokers, with CSV import as the fallback. The free plan offers unlimited trade journaling but keeps the AI query layer and advanced analytics behind a paywall.
Who it is for / who should skip it
Best for active traders who review personal history, want dollar-cost flags on habits, and import broker data for analysis. Skip it if direct sync with your broker is required or if API access for custom analytics is needed without upgrading.