Comparison

Gecko vs Tradervue (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 Tradervue is genuinely better for some of you. Here is the real breakdown so you can pick in five minutes.

The short version

Tradervue is one of the oldest trading journals on the market, online since 2011. It is built around detailed manual entries: screenshots, custom tags, mistakes lists, and MAE/MFE analytics. Pricing runs from a free tier (about 30 trades a month) to Silver at $29.95/mo and Gold at $49.95/mo per public listings as of October 2026.

Gecko reads your trades, synced or uploaded, and produces a behavioral diagnosis that prices your costliest habits in dollars across twelve significance-tested axes. It is built to grade you, not to make you fill in tags. Pro is $12 per month with a fully featured free tier, and your broker password never reaches Gecko.

Side by side

Category	Gecko	Tradervue
Price	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.	Free tier (about 30 trades a month), Silver $29.95/mo, Gold $49.95/mo per public listings as of October 2026.
Setup	Connect your broker read-only, or upload a statement with no connection at all. First diagnosis in about two minutes.	Import trades by CSV or supported broker API. Tagging system is set up over time.
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.	CSV imports and integrations for a wide range of stock, options, and futures brokers.
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.	Direct broker connections require you to store credentials on their servers.
Behavioral analysis	Automatic: 12 axes scored from your trades, each gated by a bootstrap significance test, ranked by realized dollar cost.	Tag-driven: you define mistakes and setups, Tradervue aggregates and reports on what you tagged.
Journaling style	30-second weekly entry, auto-graded from your real numbers. The grade is the journal.	Long-form manual notes per trade, custom tag taxonomy, screenshots. Best with daily discipline.
MAE / MFE	Not a primary view.	Long-running strength. Detailed adverse and favorable excursion analytics.
Customizable dashboard	Drag-to-reorder widgets and eye-toggle their visibility from an in-page drawer. The dashboard reflects how you actually trade.	Customization scope per their site.
Journal screenshots	Attach up to four chart or recap images to each weekly entry; click any thumbnail to expand to full size.	Per-trade screenshot attachments are a long-running Tradervue strength.
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.	No AI coach found in their public materials as of October 2026; analytics and tag rollups are rule-based.
Best for	Traders who want behavior named in dollars, with the grading on autopilot.	Disciplined manual journalers who already keep detailed trade notes and want deep tag analytics.
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

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.

Tradervue: Free tier (about 30 trades a month), Silver $29.95/mo, Gold $49.95/mo per public listings as of October 2026.

Setup

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

Tradervue: Import trades by CSV or supported broker API. Tagging system is set up over time.

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.

Tradervue: CSV imports and integrations for a wide range of stock, options, and futures brokers.

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.

Tradervue: Direct broker connections require you to store credentials on their servers.

Behavioral analysis

Gecko: Automatic: 12 axes scored from your trades, each gated by a bootstrap significance test, ranked by realized dollar cost.

Tradervue: Tag-driven: you define mistakes and setups, Tradervue aggregates and reports on what you tagged.

Journaling style

Gecko: 30-second weekly entry, auto-graded from your real numbers. The grade is the journal.

Tradervue: Long-form manual notes per trade, custom tag taxonomy, screenshots. Best with daily discipline.

MAE / MFE

Gecko: Not a primary view.

Tradervue: Long-running strength. Detailed adverse and favorable excursion analytics.

Customizable dashboard

Gecko: Drag-to-reorder widgets and eye-toggle their visibility from an in-page drawer. The dashboard reflects how you actually trade.

Tradervue: Customization scope per their site.

Journal screenshots

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

Tradervue: Per-trade screenshot attachments are a long-running Tradervue strength.

Money-back guarantee

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

Tradervue: 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.

Tradervue: No AI coach found in their public materials as of October 2026; analytics and tag rollups are rule-based.

Best for

Gecko: Traders who want behavior named in dollars, with the grading on autopilot.

Tradervue: Disciplined manual journalers who already keep detailed trade notes and want deep tag analytics.

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.

Tradervue: 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.

Tradervue: 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.

Tradervue: 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.

Tradervue: 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.

Tradervue: 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.

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

Tradervue 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 Tradervue if...

•You already keep, or want to keep, detailed manual trade notes and screenshots.
•MAE/MFE analytics are core to how you review.
•You want a tagging system you fully control and can grow into.

Choose Gecko if...

•You want behavior named for you, not tagged manually trade by trade.
•You want a significance test on every flagged leak so you know it is real.
•You want read-only sync where your broker password never reaches the tool, or no connection at all.
•You want a weekly review that is 30 seconds, not 30 minutes.

One honest note: Tradervue rewards a discipline most traders do not actually keep. If you are one of the rare ones who genuinely will tag every trade, it has more depth in the manual workflow than Gecko does. If, like most traders, your last journal died in two weeks, Gecko is built for you: nothing to fill in, the read is automatic, and the leaks show up priced in dollars whether you remember to log in or not.

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 Gecko cheaper than Tradervue?

Yes for the paid tiers. Gecko Pro is $12/month; Tradervue runs $29.95 to $49.95 per month on Silver and Gold per public listings as of October 2026. Both have a free tier: Tradervue's covers about 30 trades a month, Gecko's covers your last 100 trades with every feature.

What does Tradervue have that Gecko does not?

A deep manual tagging system, long-standing MAE/MFE analytics, screenshot support per trade, and a long pedigree among stock and futures day traders.

What does Gecko have that Tradervue does not?

Automatic behavioral detection across twelve significance-tested axes, dollar pricing on each leak, 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.

Do I have to tag every trade in Gecko?

No. The behavioral read is computed from the trades themselves. Tagging is optional, not the workflow.