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StopTilt shares common ownership with the TradingLoot ecosystem. This relationship does not change how StopTilt is evaluated here.

What it's for

Manually logging trades for free and reviewing results as P&L, win rate, and calendar history, with optional StopTilt Pro adding a pre-trade Trade Gate that turns recorded behavioral and risk context into a Clear, Caution, or Stop checkpoint, plus a position-sizing and risk calculator. Execution and market analysis happen outside StopTilt.

Who it's for

  • discretionary traders
  • traders who want a pre-trade discipline checkpoint
  • traders trying to identify recurring behavioral mistakes
  • prop-firm or evaluation-account traders where account-risk discipline matters
  • traders willing to log trades manually

Strengths

  • Intervenes before the trade is placed, rather than only analyzing results afterward.
  • Builds behavioral and mental-state self-assessment directly into the pre-trade workflow, not as an afterthought.
  • Connects a prospective checkpoint to a retrospective review, so the same trade is checked before and reviewed after.
  • Accounts for risk context (such as account-specific limits) and surfaces recurring behavioral patterns over time.

Limitations

  • No automatic broker or platform import exists; every trade is logged manually.
  • StopTilt provides no charting, execution, or live market analysis or data.
  • Journal and performance analytics are less deep than a dedicated journal/analytics product — there is no backtesting or trade replay.
  • The Trade Gate evaluates the context a trader provides, not the actual market edge or likely outcome of the trade.
  • The Trade Gate, StopTilt's core pre-trade checkpoint, requires the paid Pro plan; the Free Journal on its own is a manual-entry journal.

Best for

  • Traders who want a free, manual-entry journal across personal, evaluation, or funded accounts, with the option to add the Pro Trade Gate later.
  • Discretionary traders who already have charting and execution elsewhere and want a dedicated pre-trade behavioral checkpoint.
  • Traders who want ongoing discipline and behavioral-pattern review alongside their trading.
  • Traders managing account-specific risk limits, including evaluation or funded accounts, who want that risk context reflected in the checkpoint.

Not ideal for

  • Traders wanting automated broker-sync journaling.
  • Traders wanting deep backtesting or trade-replay analytics.
  • Traders wanting charting or execution in the same tool.
  • Traders unwilling to manually record their trade context.
  • Traders expecting a system to tell them whether a trade has market edge.
  • Traders who want the pre-trade Trade Gate without a paid subscription.

Pricing

  • Model: Freemium
  • Includes a free plan.

Sources

  • StopTilt — Homepage — Core positioning, Trade Gate framing as a decision checkpoint rather than a signal, and the explicit no-execution boundary.
  • StopTilt — Pricing — Free Journal and StopTilt Pro plan contents, the $24.99/month Pro price, and the no-card statement for the Free Journal.
  • StopTilt — Terms of Service — Pro billing period and currency, absence of an automatic Pro trial, account registration, and Free Journal access after cancellation.

Last verified: October 14, 2026

StopTilt starts with a free-forever Free Journal: unlimited manual trade logging across personal, evaluation, and funded accounts, with P&L, win rate, and calendar history. Optional StopTilt Pro adds the pre-trade Trade Gate and risk tools. The Trade Gate is not a signal service and does not tell a trader whether a trade is worth taking. It is a checkpoint: it asks for pre-trade context, returns a Clear, Caution, or Stop read on that context, and then relies on the trader manually logging what actually happened to build a picture of behavior and discipline over time.

What StopTilt is

StopTilt’s Free Journal is a manual trade log: the trader records each trade and reviews P&L, win rate, and calendar history. StopTilt Pro adds the Trade Gate, which asks the trader to record relevant decision context and a self-assessment before a trade, then returns a Clear, Caution, or Stop checkpoint based on that information and the trader’s configured risk context. StopTilt also offers a Session Plan and a position-sizing/risk calculator around that pre-trade step; StopTilt’s pricing lists the calculator under Pro and doesn’t place the Session Plan in either plan. StopTilt does not execute trades, connect to a broker, provide charting, or supply live market data — the trader’s existing execution and analysis tools stay exactly where they are. Once a trade is logged, that same information feeds a journal, discipline tracking, and behavioral-pattern review.

How the Trade Gate should be interpreted

This is the single most important thing to understand before using StopTilt: a Clear verdict does not mean the trade has an edge, that the setup is good, that the market is favorable, or that the trade is likely to win. StopTilt evaluates the information the trader provides — behavioral and mental-state self-assessment alongside relevant trading and risk context — not live market conditions, and it does not predict the trade’s outcome. A Clear result means the checkpoint found nothing in that self-reported context calling for caution; it says nothing about whether the trade itself is a good one.

Where StopTilt stands out

The main distinction is that StopTilt intervenes before the trade rather than only reviewing it afterward, unlike a standard journal. Folding a behavioral and mental-state self-assessment into that same pre-trade moment, instead of treating it as a separate exercise, means the checkpoint and the trader’s actual state are captured together. Because the same trade that passes through the Gate is the one that shows up in the journal afterward, StopTilt connects a prospective check to a retrospective review rather than leaving them as two disconnected habits. Account-specific risk context feeds into that same checkpoint, and logged trades over time surface recurring behavioral patterns rather than treating every session in isolation.

Where StopTilt falls short

There is no automatic broker or platform import: every trade is entered manually, so the quality of the journal and the patterns it surfaces depend entirely on consistent, honest logging. StopTilt does not chart, execute, or pull live market data — none of that is available inside the product at any point. Its journal and performance statistics, while real, are not built to the depth of a dedicated journal or analytics product: there is no backtesting and no trade replay. And as covered above, the checkpoint itself is bounded by design — it reads the context a trader gives it, not the market, so it cannot and does not judge whether a trade has an edge.

StopTilt for futures and prop-firm traders

StopTilt’s discipline and account-risk workflow doesn’t depend on analyzing any particular market, so it can be relevant to futures and prop-firm traders in the same way it can be relevant to any discretionary trader. That relevance has real limits: StopTilt does not analyze futures price action, does not connect to a futures broker, does not execute futures trades, and is not a futures-specific charting product or a prop-firm comparison service. Account-specific risk limits can be reflected in the checkpoint, which is useful for evaluation or funded-account contexts, but the underlying trading, data, and execution all continue to happen entirely outside StopTilt.

Journal and behavioral review

Logged trades support a journal and history view, performance statistics, and discipline-oriented review, including awareness of recurring behavioral patterns over sessions. The Free Journal includes P&L, win rate, and calendar history; StopTilt’s pricing lists the discipline score and expectancy statistics as part of Pro. These features support the behavioral workflow, but they are not StopTilt’s primary strength. There is no broker-sync import ecosystem comparable to a dedicated journal product, so building that picture depends on the trader logging trades manually and consistently.

Pricing

StopTilt has two plans. The Free Journal costs nothing; StopTilt describes it as free forever, with no card required. It includes unlimited trades, unlimited personal, evaluation, and funded accounts, and P&L, win rate, and calendar history. StopTilt Pro costs USD $24.99/month, billed monthly until cancelled, and adds the pre-trade Trade Gate, a discipline score, expectancy statistics, and the position-sizing and risk calculator.

Both plans require creating a StopTilt account, with an email and password or Google sign-in. StopTilt’s terms state that new Pro subscriptions don’t include an automatic free trial; a trial applies only through an explicit promotional offer or access code shown at checkout. If you cancel Pro, you keep Pro access until the end of the current billing period, and the Free Journal remains available afterward. Start your free journal on StopTilt’s site to try the free plan.

These plan details come from StopTilt’s pricing section and terms, checked October 14, 2026, not from separate testing of each plan. Pricing and plan contents can change, so confirm them directly with StopTilt before subscribing.

Who StopTilt is best for

The Free Journal suits traders who mainly want a free manual log of their trades and its history. Discretionary traders who already have charting and execution set up elsewhere, and want a dedicated pre-trade behavioral checkpoint plus ongoing discipline and pattern review layered on top of trades they log themselves, get the most from StopTilt overall; the pre-trade Trade Gate itself requires StopTilt Pro.

Who should look elsewhere

Traders who want automated broker-sync journaling, deep backtesting or trade-replay analytics, or charting and execution in the same product should look elsewhere — none of that is what StopTilt does. The same goes for anyone unwilling to log trades by hand, or anyone expecting a system that can tell them whether a given trade has real market edge: StopTilt evaluates the trader’s own reported context, not the market itself.