Tradepurple vs Tradervue: Classic Journal vs Behavior Change Engine
Tradervue is one of the oldest trading journals on the market, with a free tier and a focus on trade logging, mentor sharing, and reports. Tradepurple is a different category: it does not log trades, it logs your behavior around the trades and turns the patterns into rules.
Quick verdict
Tradervue is best for
Traders who want a free or low-cost journal to log trades, generate basic reports, and share their journal with a mentor or community.
Tradepurple is best for
Traders who already journal and have noticed that writing down what happened does not stop them from doing it again next time.
Pricing at a glance
Tradervue
Free / $29.95 (Silver) / $49.95 (Gold)
Free tier limited to 30 trades/month and stocks/ETFs only. Silver adds unlimited trades, futures/forex/options. Gold adds MFE/MAE statistics and 100+ reports.
7-day trial on Silver and Gold plans.
Tradepurple
€20/month
Monthly subscription, including VAT for EU customers.
7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
Feature comparison
Where each wins
Where Tradervue wins
- Free tier with up to 30 trades per month, useful for traders just getting started.
- Mentor mode for sharing your journal with a coach or community.
- Established trade-side reports including MFE / MAE on the Gold tier.
- Auto-generated charts on multiple timeframes for every logged trade.
- Long track record as one of the oldest journals in the space.
Where Tradepurple wins
- Pre-session readiness scoring before you place a single trade, with personalized rules generated from your past behavior.
- In-session intervention that stops destructive behavior at the moment it is happening, not days later in a journal review.
- AI extraction of emotions, triggers, behaviors, severity, and rules from a single free-text debrief.
- Weekly psychological report with discipline score, behavioral cost, and rules for the coming week.
- Three-tier playbook auto-built from your repeated rule-breaks rather than written manually.
The honest verdict
Tradervue helped a generation of traders learn that writing trades down matters. The Free tier is genuinely useful for someone starting out, and the Gold tier reports are deep on the trade side.
But Tradervue is, by design, a passive logging tool. You write the trade, you write the note, you read the report later. It does not actively read your debriefs for behavioral patterns, it does not score your readiness before a session, and it does not interrupt you when you are about to make the same mistake for the fifth time.
Tradepurple is built for the trader who has already journaled for months and noticed it did not change anything. The product is the active layer that turns the writing into structural change.
Common questions
Is Tradepurple cheaper than Tradervue?
It is more than the Free tier and slightly cheaper than Gold ($49.95). It sits in a different category: behavioral coaching rather than trade logging.
Can I keep using Tradervue for trade logs and add Tradepurple for psychology?
Yes. They are complementary. Tradervue stays your trade record. Tradepurple becomes your behavior engine.
Does Tradepurple have mentor sharing like Tradervue?
Not currently. Tradepurple's data is private to the trader. We may add limited sharing for coaches in the future.
Why does Tradepurple not have a free tier?
Behavioral analysis runs on AI infrastructure that has a real per-user cost. A free tier would force us to compromise the product. We offer a 7-day free trial instead.
I already use Tradervue. What does Tradepurple add?
The pre-session check-in, the in-session intervention, the AI behavioral pattern engine, the weekly psychological report, and the personal playbook. None of these exist in Tradervue.
Ready to fix the behavior side?
Try Tradepurple for 7 days. No card charged during the trial. Cancel anytime from settings.
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