xenminds - Blog #Diaryxenminds - Blog #Diaryhttps://www.xenminds.com/blogs/tag/diaryMon, 13 Apr 2026 17:57:34 -0700http://zoho.com/sites/<![CDATA[Stocklog+ V2]]>https://www.xenminds.com/blogs/post/stocklog-v2Stocklog+ is a stock journaling program written for Windows. Linux and MacOS coming soon!]]>

Stocklog+ V2 is up and running

It's been a minute since my last post but I've been living life and of course - trading!


I've made some updates to V2:


1. Added more information to the summary area, this gives you all the info you probably want to know in a compact space

2. Enhanced the themes so you can choose your own from a selection of 100+ pre-configured palettes for dark and light screens

3. Added ticker symbols and some broker artwork, will add more when I find them

4. Redesigned D.I.M.E. to make it easer to configure your .csv  files for import. I use this for 100% import success

5. For you day traders who may move in/out of multiple trades a day, I made it easer to keep track of long trading runs by rolling-up the trade which saves screen space and your time calculating each trade total

6. I also made the grouping trades logic automatic when importing a file - this saves a ton of your time!

7. When a trade is complete, you have the option to 'lock' the trade so you don't accidently make changes to the wrong row, or even worse, delete the wrong row!

8. Added an installer versus simply zipping the files. I think it's easier because of the point-n-click everyone is accustomed to

9. If you've added multiple accounts, its now easier to find all accounts by clicking on the 'list accounts' icon


So there we go! As I use Stocklog+ I find that something could be easier or more convenient and BAM! it kicks off a programming session to make trading life easier.


If you haven't tried Stocklog+, give it a spin since it's free to download and none of the functions are gated. Once you get the hang of it, I think you'll find it really does make logging your trades much faster which means - you'll actually do it ðŸ˜‰ 


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]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:33:15 -0700<![CDATA[Stocklog+: Genesis ]]>https://www.xenminds.com/blogs/post/stocklog-genesis

We Trade a lot, but we're also lazy!

If you're a trader, there is no way you want to spend the end of each day or a weekend punching in your trades! That's why Stocklog+ came into existence. We are traders ourselves, with multiple broker accounts, and looked high-to-low for a way to simply journal/diary/log our trades but ran into several walls:

1. All free journals were spreadsheets. We tried many of them and each time we started, the same problem presented itself:

     "This is very tedious! Why do I need to type all this stuff in? It takes forever! And I keep making typos because I'm irritated!!"

This made us drop that idea within about three attempts! It just doesn't work long-term. The spreadsheets start to get a little wonky to work with and if your a day trader or make a low fifty to a high of several hundred trades a year - it's not sustainable.

2. We found online journals but the bait-and-switch didn't sit well with us.

  • It's 'free' for basic entry or so-many-trades, but quickly moves to 'pay up' to do ANYTHING else. Now, its not the 'subscription' that's the problem, it's the PRICE of the subscription! All the useful actions are behind the subscription wall, I would have just preferred they said it's $180-$1000/yr and be done with it!
  • The free ones were just spreadsheets online, again, you will quickly looped-back to issue #1
  • Most are connected to a trading or teaching platform that I didn't want anything to do with, we just want to journal
  • The ability to import other broker data was almost impossible, they want you to trade with their partner(s) - not looking for another broker!

3. Who owns the data and where is it coming from?

  • They want you to connect your broker account to their platform in order to import... WHAT! Who are these 'people'?! There is NO WAY we're giving someone access to our accounts just so we can journal - that's a non-starter!!
  • Not sure about you, but we're sick-and-tired of building-up a companies database of information on us just so they can turn around and sell it all. The Terms & Conditions 'say' they won't... until they do.
  • Most of them don't mention it, but you don't own the data you've entered AND there is no way to export it if you wanted to leave! Looks like your starting over - again!
  • We want to control our own data - period.

So at the end of they day, we decided the only way to find something we can really use is to just make it! That's how most things come into existence ðŸ˜‰!

Stocklog+ is simple to use, quickly allows you to journal manually if that's your preferred way to go, but most importantly, Stocklog+ can import many different broker CSV files and continues to improve as we receive CSV files from the community to analyze.

So give it a try, you don't have to sign-up for anything and the demo mode never expires, so try it at your own speed. The subscription is month-to-month, no need to get someone on the phone or swap e-mails for three weeks to cancel; of course, we hope you find Stocklog+ beneficial, but we know it may not be for everyone and we don't want to lock you into a crazy subscription that takes a Presidential Pardon just to cancel!
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