Comparison

Gecko vs PsyQuation (2026): Which Trading Journal Fits You?

By the Gecko team · Updated October 2026

Yes, this comparison lives on Gecko’s site, so read it knowing that. We have tried to keep it honest anyway, because the truth is simple: these are different tools built for different traders, and PsyQuation is genuinely better for some of you. Here is the real breakdown so you can pick in five minutes.

The short version

PsyQuation is the closest peer to Gecko in vocabulary: behavioral coaching for traders, AI-flagged habits, performance scoring. Originally an independent product, it was acquired by IG Group and is now primarily distributed through IG accounts. If you trade forex or CFDs through IG, it is bundled or low-cost; outside of IG, access has narrowed.

Gecko takes the same idea (your behavior, named in numbers) and ships it with two differences that matter at the buying moment: every flagged leak has to clear a bootstrap significance test before it surfaces, and Gecko reads trades from any broker, synced read-only or uploaded, rather than tying you to one venue. Pro is $12 per month with a free tier, and your broker password never reaches Gecko.

Side by side

Category	Gecko	PsyQuation
Price / access	Free tier (every feature on your last 100 trades). Pro $12/month, Unlimited $20/month, 20% off billed yearly. New accounts start with a 14-day Pro trial. Cancel any time. Same price whatever broker you use.	Bundled or low-cost for IG account holders; standalone access has tightened since the IG acquisition.
Setup	Connect your broker read-only, or upload a statement with no connection at all. First diagnosis in about two minutes.	Connect through an IG account; PsyQuation reads your trading there.
Broker support	Read-only auto-sync for 20+ brokers via SnapTrade on Pro and Unlimited (Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE, tastytrade, Webull, Kraken, Coinbase and more), plus statement upload with native parsers and an AI extractor for any other broker.	Primarily IG-tied. If your broker is not IG, the path is narrow.
Security posture	Your broker password never reaches Gecko. Auto-sync signs in through SnapTrade with read-only access you can revoke any time, and the upload path needs no connection at all.	Lives inside the broker stack you are already authenticated in, which is different than third-party credential storage.
Behavioral analysis	12 axes, each gated by a bootstrap significance test, ranked by realized dollar cost.	AI-driven scoring across multiple behavior dimensions, surfaced as nudges and performance scores.
Significance testing	Every flagged leak has to clear a bootstrap significance test before it surfaces.	AI labels patterns; statistical confidence is not exposed as a first-class gate.
Audience	Any active trader: stocks, futures, options, crypto.	Primarily forex and CFD traders inside the IG ecosystem.
Customizable dashboard	Drag-to-reorder widgets and eye-toggle their visibility from an in-page drawer.	Dashboard scope per their site; tied to the IG broker experience.
Journal screenshots	Attach up to four chart or recap images to each weekly entry; click any thumbnail to expand.	Per-entry image attachments per their site.
Money-back guarantee	7-day money-back guarantee on your first paid period.	Refund policy per their site.
Gecko AI · personal coach	Gecko AI: your personal trading and investing agent. Reads your trades, weekly journal, notes, goals, holdings and investment cases, suggests one concrete action for the week and checks in on it. Catches slow drifts (slipping hit rate, growing after-loss tilt) before they compound. About 25 messages a month free, about 500 on Pro, uncapped on Unlimited. Powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5.	Runs an Advice Engine that pushes AI-generated recommendations; we found no two-way chat over your own trades in public materials as of October 2026.
Best for	Traders who want a significance-tested behavioral read independent of which broker they use.	IG forex and CFD traders who want behavioral feedback baked into their broker experience.
Daily Coach loop	AI pre-market briefing keyed off your actual data, end-of-day check-in (mood + rule + journal) joined with daily P&L, weekly plan-adherence score, mood × performance correlation, AI-written Monday recap email. All in the dashboard, free tier included.	Not offered. A trade-journal log plus reports; no daily AI coaching surface, no EOD check-in, no plan-adherence score, no AI recap email.
Broker auto-sync	Read-only OAuth via SnapTrade on Pro and Unlimited. 20+ brokers supported today — Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, tastytrade, TradeStation, Webull, Public, Alpaca, Tradier, Chase, Moomoo, eToro; plus Kraken and Coinbase for crypto; plus Questrade, Wealthsimple, and Trading 212 for CA/EU. Free tier keeps the always-available statement upload path. Password never crosses Gecko; tokens can be revoked from Settings.	Varies. Some competitors offer broker integrations on paid tiers; others require manual CSV uploads or a TradingView hand-off. See their own table rows for specifics.
Trade Replay + coach commentary	Play any trading day back as an interactive minute-bar chart with entry / exit markers, a 30-minute tilt window shaded on the chart, and a chronological tape weaving your trades with the behavioral alerts that fired. Zoom out to a multi-day chart on any swing position held across sessions — daily bars with entry / exit anchors, continuous across futures contract rolls. An AI coach writes a recap plus counterfactual on demand. Covers equities, crypto, and CME futures. Free tier.	Varies. A few competitors ship chart playback of trades on price bars; almost none pair it with a behavioral-alert overlay, a tilt-window band, a swing view for multi-day holds, and an AI-written recap in the same view.
Portfolio Analyzer for current holdings	One view of your entire book across every connected broker — asset + sector allocation, top-holdings + concentration warnings, per-account subtotals, projected annual dividend income. Snapshot-derived Risk & Returns block (MTD / YTD / 1M / 3M / 6M / 1Y, annualized vol, Sharpe, max drawdown, best/worst day). 60-day earnings + dividend + split calendar with days-until badges. Performance vs a benchmark you choose (time-weighted, deposits and withdrawals taken out), a volatility vs return map of every position, a correlation matrix, and news for each holding. An AI-written review grounded in your actual numbers. Behavioral overlays flag positions >=5% of book without a written investment case, plus any position underwater >=25% on cost. On every plan; read-only auto-sync of holdings is Pro and Unlimited, and new accounts get a 14-day Pro trial.	Not offered. Journaling tools grade closed trades, not current holdings; portfolio aggregators show balances without a behavioral overlay, upcoming-catalyst calendar, or AI review. Neither category pairs holdings with the trader's own written thesis on the position.
Investment cases + community	Write a thesis for any stock with a target and a stop; an AI analyst drafts it from a ticker and a side. Gecko alerts you when price reaches a level, runs weekly thesis check-ins and earnings-day notes (Pro), and tracks the case's return from the day you write it. Publish to the Community Board to be tracked in public, follow other investors, and enter the Monthly Case Challenge with cash and plan prizes.	Not offered. Trading journals log trades after the fact; they don't track a written thesis with levels before you buy, or a public, performance-tracked board of cases.
Session guardrails + prop-firm presets	Set a daily loss limit, trailing drawdown and profit target, or load a preset for Topstep, Apex, Take Profit Trader, FTMO or MyFundedFutures. The Session Monitor shows how close you are, and push alerts fire before a bad day becomes a blown account, including a tilt warning right after a stop-out.	Varies. Most journals report rule breaks after the session; few warn you live, and few ship prop-firm rule presets.

Price / access

Gecko: Free tier (every feature on your last 100 trades). Pro $12/month, Unlimited $20/month, 20% off billed yearly. New accounts start with a 14-day Pro trial. Cancel any time. Same price whatever broker you use.

PsyQuation: Bundled or low-cost for IG account holders; standalone access has tightened since the IG acquisition.

Setup

Gecko: Connect your broker read-only, or upload a statement with no connection at all. First diagnosis in about two minutes.

PsyQuation: Connect through an IG account; PsyQuation reads your trading there.

Broker support

Gecko: Read-only auto-sync for 20+ brokers via SnapTrade on Pro and Unlimited (Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE, tastytrade, Webull, Kraken, Coinbase and more), plus statement upload with native parsers and an AI extractor for any other broker.

PsyQuation: Primarily IG-tied. If your broker is not IG, the path is narrow.

Security posture

Gecko: Your broker password never reaches Gecko. Auto-sync signs in through SnapTrade with read-only access you can revoke any time, and the upload path needs no connection at all.

PsyQuation: Lives inside the broker stack you are already authenticated in, which is different than third-party credential storage.

Behavioral analysis

Gecko: 12 axes, each gated by a bootstrap significance test, ranked by realized dollar cost.

PsyQuation: AI-driven scoring across multiple behavior dimensions, surfaced as nudges and performance scores.

Significance testing

Gecko: Every flagged leak has to clear a bootstrap significance test before it surfaces.

PsyQuation: AI labels patterns; statistical confidence is not exposed as a first-class gate.

Audience

Gecko: Any active trader: stocks, futures, options, crypto.

PsyQuation: Primarily forex and CFD traders inside the IG ecosystem.

Customizable dashboard

Gecko: Drag-to-reorder widgets and eye-toggle their visibility from an in-page drawer.

PsyQuation: Dashboard scope per their site; tied to the IG broker experience.

Journal screenshots

Gecko: Attach up to four chart or recap images to each weekly entry; click any thumbnail to expand.

PsyQuation: Per-entry image attachments per their site.

Money-back guarantee

Gecko: 7-day money-back guarantee on your first paid period.

PsyQuation: Refund policy per their site.

Gecko AI · personal coach

Gecko: Gecko AI: your personal trading and investing agent. Reads your trades, weekly journal, notes, goals, holdings and investment cases, suggests one concrete action for the week and checks in on it. Catches slow drifts (slipping hit rate, growing after-loss tilt) before they compound. About 25 messages a month free, about 500 on Pro, uncapped on Unlimited. Powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5.

PsyQuation: Runs an Advice Engine that pushes AI-generated recommendations; we found no two-way chat over your own trades in public materials as of October 2026.

Best for

Gecko: Traders who want a significance-tested behavioral read independent of which broker they use.

PsyQuation: IG forex and CFD traders who want behavioral feedback baked into their broker experience.

Daily Coach loop

Gecko: AI pre-market briefing keyed off your actual data, end-of-day check-in (mood + rule + journal) joined with daily P&L, weekly plan-adherence score, mood × performance correlation, AI-written Monday recap email. All in the dashboard, free tier included.

PsyQuation: Not offered. A trade-journal log plus reports; no daily AI coaching surface, no EOD check-in, no plan-adherence score, no AI recap email.

Broker auto-sync

Gecko: Read-only OAuth via SnapTrade on Pro and Unlimited. 20+ brokers supported today — Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, tastytrade, TradeStation, Webull, Public, Alpaca, Tradier, Chase, Moomoo, eToro; plus Kraken and Coinbase for crypto; plus Questrade, Wealthsimple, and Trading 212 for CA/EU. Free tier keeps the always-available statement upload path. Password never crosses Gecko; tokens can be revoked from Settings.

PsyQuation: Varies. Some competitors offer broker integrations on paid tiers; others require manual CSV uploads or a TradingView hand-off. See their own table rows for specifics.

Trade Replay + coach commentary

Gecko: Play any trading day back as an interactive minute-bar chart with entry / exit markers, a 30-minute tilt window shaded on the chart, and a chronological tape weaving your trades with the behavioral alerts that fired. Zoom out to a multi-day chart on any swing position held across sessions — daily bars with entry / exit anchors, continuous across futures contract rolls. An AI coach writes a recap plus counterfactual on demand. Covers equities, crypto, and CME futures. Free tier.

PsyQuation: Varies. A few competitors ship chart playback of trades on price bars; almost none pair it with a behavioral-alert overlay, a tilt-window band, a swing view for multi-day holds, and an AI-written recap in the same view.

Portfolio Analyzer for current holdings

Gecko: One view of your entire book across every connected broker — asset + sector allocation, top-holdings + concentration warnings, per-account subtotals, projected annual dividend income. Snapshot-derived Risk & Returns block (MTD / YTD / 1M / 3M / 6M / 1Y, annualized vol, Sharpe, max drawdown, best/worst day). 60-day earnings + dividend + split calendar with days-until badges. Performance vs a benchmark you choose (time-weighted, deposits and withdrawals taken out), a volatility vs return map of every position, a correlation matrix, and news for each holding. An AI-written review grounded in your actual numbers. Behavioral overlays flag positions >=5% of book without a written investment case, plus any position underwater >=25% on cost. On every plan; read-only auto-sync of holdings is Pro and Unlimited, and new accounts get a 14-day Pro trial.

PsyQuation: Not offered. Journaling tools grade closed trades, not current holdings; portfolio aggregators show balances without a behavioral overlay, upcoming-catalyst calendar, or AI review. Neither category pairs holdings with the trader's own written thesis on the position.

Investment cases + community

Gecko: Write a thesis for any stock with a target and a stop; an AI analyst drafts it from a ticker and a side. Gecko alerts you when price reaches a level, runs weekly thesis check-ins and earnings-day notes (Pro), and tracks the case's return from the day you write it. Publish to the Community Board to be tracked in public, follow other investors, and enter the Monthly Case Challenge with cash and plan prizes.

PsyQuation: Not offered. Trading journals log trades after the fact; they don't track a written thesis with levels before you buy, or a public, performance-tracked board of cases.

Session guardrails + prop-firm presets

Gecko: Set a daily loss limit, trailing drawdown and profit target, or load a preset for Topstep, Apex, Take Profit Trader, FTMO or MyFundedFutures. The Session Monitor shows how close you are, and push alerts fire before a bad day becomes a blown account, including a tilt warning right after a stop-out.

PsyQuation: Varies. Most journals report rule breaks after the session; few warn you live, and few ship prop-firm rule presets.

PsyQuation prices and features come from their pricing page and public listings as of October 2026. Plans change often, so check their site before you decide. Gecko details are current as of the same date.

The honest verdict

Choose PsyQuation if...

•You already trade through IG and want behavioral feedback inside that ecosystem.
•You are primarily a forex or CFD trader.
•You prefer AI-flagged nudges to a smaller set of significance-gated leaks.

Choose Gecko if...

•You want a real significance test behind every flagged leak, not a confidence-free AI label.
•You trade across multiple brokers, or your broker is not IG.
•You want the answer ranked in dollars, with the biggest leak first.
•You want to start free in two minutes, with no broker account required.

One honest note: PsyQuation has been one of the most thoughtful products in this space and pioneered a lot of the behavioral-coaching vocabulary Gecko now uses. The honest tradeoff today is access: their distribution is tightly coupled to IG. If you live inside IG, they are a strong fit. If you do not, Gecko gives you the same category of insight, but broker-agnostic, significance-gated, and priced like a habit subscription instead of a brokerage feature.

The cheapest way to decide

Gecko’s free tier analyzes your last 100 trades with every feature unlocked, no card and no broker connection. If the diagnosis does not show you something worth fixing, you have lost two minutes.

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Frequently asked questions

Is PsyQuation still available standalone?

Since its acquisition by IG Group, the distribution has primarily been through IG accounts. Pricing and access outside the IG ecosystem are best confirmed on their current site.

What does PsyQuation have that Gecko does not?

A long head start in AI-driven trader scoring, deep integration with the IG broker stack, and a particular focus on forex and CFD audiences.

What does Gecko have that PsyQuation does not?

Bootstrap significance gates on every flagged leak, broker-agnostic statement parsing, dollar-priced ranking of habits, a 30-second weekly journal that grades itself, and read-only sync where your broker password never reaches Gecko. Beyond the journal it covers the rest of your account: a portfolio view across brokers, written investment cases with target and stop alerts, session guardrails with prop-firm presets, and a daily coaching loop.

Is significance testing really that different from AI flagging?

Yes. AI flagging tells you which trades fit a pattern. Significance testing tells you whether a pattern across many trades is statistically real or could be chance. Gecko leans on the second so you only work on real leaks.