A desktop trading journal for forex and gold traders, made by an independent solo founder. Your journal stays on your own computer.
What Red Candle is
Red Candle is a desktop trading journal for forex and gold traders, for macOS, with a Windows version coming soon. It lets you:
log every trade with its setup, entry, stop loss and chart screenshots;
see your screenshots in time order on a timeline;
check your own rules before you enter a trade.
Red Candle can also use your MT5 price history. Import your candles, or let them sync from MetaTrader 5. Red Candle then:
finds past moments in your own history that look like today's chart, and shows what happened next;
measures trend, support and resistance from the candles, then has AI explain them in plain words.
What Red Candle is not
Not a broker.
It never places, changes or closes trades. The MT5 bridge only reads closed candles.
Not a signal service.
It doesn't tell you to buy or sell, forecast prices or promise a win rate. Similar Patterns and AI Analysis describe what is in your data and what happened before. They don't predict what happens next.
Not financial advice.
It's a tool for keeping a record and reviewing your own trading. Trading involves risk.
How it's built
Your journal stays on your computer.
Trades, screenshots, candles and notes are stored in a database on your own computer. Our servers keep only your account and license. We can't see your strategy, your results or your mistakes.
AI explains, it doesn't predict.
The numbers come from your candles first: trend, levels and past matches. AI only puts them into words. You choose the provider and use your own key, or a free local model.
It keeps working offline.
Your license is checked on your computer, so Red Candle runs for up to 14 days without a connection.
It's built for discipline.
Pre-trade checklists, daily limits and an honest journal help you play defense, which is where most traders lose.
Who makes it
Red Candle is an independent product, designed, built and supported by one solo founder. There are no investors, no ads and no data to sell. The subscription is how Red Candle earns money, so the app only has to be useful to you.
Questions, feedback and bug reports go straight to the person who builds it.
Red Candle costs $30 a month or $324 a year, with no free trial. Payments are handled by Creem, the merchant of record, and you can cancel any time in the customer portal. One subscription works on one computer at a time. If your subscription ends, your journal stays open in read-only mode.
