Comparison

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

The short version

TradesViz is the journal data-minded traders gravitate toward. Deep performance analytics, broker imports, options analytics, calendar heatmaps, and a generous free tier. Paid Pro and Platinum tiers run roughly $15 to $30 per month, and Platinum adds an AI Q&A assistant, per public listings as of October 2026.

Gecko narrows the focus to one question: what habits are costing you money, in dollars? Twelve behavioral axes, each gated by a bootstrap significance test so a flagged pattern is real, not noise. Pro is $12 per month with a fully featured free tier, and your broker password never reaches Gecko.

Side by side

Category	Gecko	TradesViz
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 (stocks, up to 3,000 executions a month), Pro about $19.99/mo, Platinum about $29.99/mo ($14.99 and $22.49 billed yearly) 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.	Broker imports across many venues, plus CSV. Options-aware ingest.
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.	Wide broker coverage, with options and futures analytics first-class.
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.	Broker auto-sync features can require stored credentials on their servers.
Analytics depth	Behavioral diagnosis at the top, plus equity curves and per-instrument breakdowns.	Very deep. Calendar heatmaps, MAE/MFE, options Greeks, drawdown analysis, scoreboards.
Behavioral analysis	Core focus. 12 axes, each significance-tested and ranked by dollar cost.	Performance-first. Patterns surface through the analytics views, not as a graded diagnosis.
Significance testing	Every flagged leak has to clear a bootstrap significance test before it surfaces.	Not a primary lens. Analytics are descriptive, not gated.
Customizable dashboard	Drag-to-reorder widgets and eye-toggle their visibility from an in-page drawer.	Customization scope per their site.
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.	AI Q&A chat and an AI coach trade review on the Platinum tier, per public listings as of October 2026; the core strength remains dashboard analytics.
Best for	Traders whose problem is behavior, not lack of charts.	Data-minded traders who want the deepest analytics shelf in the space.
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.

TradesViz: Free tier (stocks, up to 3,000 executions a month), Pro about $19.99/mo, Platinum about $29.99/mo ($14.99 and $22.49 billed yearly) 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.

TradesViz: Broker imports across many venues, plus CSV. Options-aware ingest.

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.

TradesViz: Wide broker coverage, with options and futures analytics first-class.

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.

TradesViz: Broker auto-sync features can require stored credentials on their servers.

Analytics depth

Gecko: Behavioral diagnosis at the top, plus equity curves and per-instrument breakdowns.

TradesViz: Very deep. Calendar heatmaps, MAE/MFE, options Greeks, drawdown analysis, scoreboards.

Behavioral analysis

Gecko: Core focus. 12 axes, each significance-tested and ranked by dollar cost.

TradesViz: Performance-first. Patterns surface through the analytics views, not as a graded diagnosis.

Significance testing

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

TradesViz: Not a primary lens. Analytics are descriptive, not gated.

Customizable dashboard

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

TradesViz: 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.

TradesViz: Per-entry image attachments per their site.

Money-back guarantee

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

TradesViz: 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.

TradesViz: AI Q&A chat and an AI coach trade review on the Platinum tier, per public listings as of October 2026; the core strength remains dashboard analytics.

Best for

Gecko: Traders whose problem is behavior, not lack of charts.

TradesViz: Data-minded traders who want the deepest analytics shelf in the space.

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.

TradesViz: 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.

TradesViz: 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.

TradesViz: 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.

TradesViz: 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.

TradesViz: 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.

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

TradesViz 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 TradesViz if...

•You enjoy spending time in deep analytics views and want every chart at your fingertips.
•Options analytics, MAE/MFE, and venue-level breakdowns matter to your review.
•The free tier already does most of what you need and you want generous data limits.

Choose Gecko if...

•You want behavior named and priced in dollars, not another chart to interpret.
•You want a real significance test behind every flagged leak.
•You want read-only sync where your broker password never reaches the tool, or no connection at all.
•You want the leaks ranked so you always know which habit to fix first.

One honest note: TradesViz is genuinely the deepest analytics shelf in the trading-journal space, and if you are the kind of trader who reviews best by interrogating charts, that depth is a real advantage. What it does not do is summarize, rank, and price. Most traders do not plateau because they cannot see their data. They plateau because they cannot see, in one read, which two or three habits are doing the most damage. That summary is the thing Gecko is built to deliver.

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 TradesViz?

It depends on the tier. TradesViz has a generous free tier that may be enough by itself; their paid tiers run roughly $15 to $30 a month. Gecko Pro is $12 per month and the free tier is fully featured for your last 100 trades.

What does TradesViz have that Gecko does not?

Industry-leading analytics depth: calendar heatmaps, MAE/MFE, options Greeks, deep drawdown views, and broker coverage across stocks, options, futures, and more.

What does Gecko have that TradesViz does not?

A behavioral diagnosis that names and prices your costliest habits across twelve significance-tested axes, a self-grading weekly journal, and read-only sync where your broker password never reaches Gecko, or a plain statement upload. 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.

Can I use both?

Yes. Some traders use TradesViz for deep analytics dives and Gecko for the behavioral diagnosis layered on top. At $12 a month, Gecko stacks cheaply.