Looking for a BoostYourCharts Journal alternative? Your journal can come with your trading platform.
A journal built for Sierra Chart: it rebuilds trades from your Sierra fills, reopens them on your own Sierra layout, and keeps raw market data on your machine. In open beta.
NexTick360 is a different shape of product: a futures trading platform with the journal built in, so every trade is recorded from the account you traded it on. Below is where each fits, written so that someone who already uses BoostYourCharts Journal would recognize it.
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Choose BoostYourCharts Journal if
- You trade on Sierra Chart and intend to stay there; it is built around Sierra and reopens trades on your own Sierra layout
- You want a low price: $8.99 to $14.99 a month billed annually, and free during their beta
- You want rule what-ifs replayed over your whole history (their What-If Lab)
- You want years of past trades imported today: importing past trades into NexTick360 comes after launch
Choose NexTick360 if
- You're leaving Sierra Chart, or never chose it, and want the platform and the journal in one
- You want your limits and your firm's rules in sight while the trade is open, beside the chart, not only in the review
- You want a DOM and footprint that trade, with the journal recording every fill as it happens
A journal that follows Sierra Chart, or a platform with its own
BoostYourCharts and NexTick360 agree on something: your raw market data stays on your machine. The difference is where you trade. BoostYourCharts is a companion to Sierra Chart; NexTick360 is the platform itself, with the order flow around each trade kept on your PC for review.
What each one does.
Described rather than scored. Everything in the BoostYourCharts Journal column comes from their own pages.
| Capability | BoostYourCharts Journal | NexTick360 |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | Sierra Chart only: "If your trades are in Sierra Chart, they work here" | It is the platform: charts, footprint, DOM, chart trading and ATM brackets, on your own broker data |
| How trades arrive | Rebuilt from your Sierra fills by a small companion app; closed trades sync as you go flat, open positions mirror live | Recorded as each order fills on the account you trade in NexTick360, through Rithmic, CQG or TradeStation. Nothing to sync or upload |
| Market data | "Raw market data never leaves your machine. Only the derived numbers upload." | Kept on your PC, encrypted; never uploaded. Only your trades' facts sync to your journal |
| While the trade is open | Guardrails you arm: loss caps, trade limits, cooldowns; tripping one fires a Windows notification | The coach's live tips, your daily loss limit and your firm's rules in the HUD beside the chart, and guardrails that act the way you set them |
| Reviewing a trade | One click reopens a trade on your own Sierra Chart layout; 210+ metrics checked against Sierra's own statistics | A past trade opens on your own desktop chart, your layout and indicators, with the order flow around it kept on your PC; the web journal for everything else |
| Habits | Tag trades and days and the journal costs each habit; sessions graded against your playbook | What each habit costs in dollars, found in your trades or tagged by you: letting losers run, revenge trades, sizing up after a loss |
| AI | None mentioned | Nic, an AI coach that asks about your trades from their facts, on monthly credits. It never sees your market data and never places an order |
| Try before paying | Free during the open beta | A Free plan (live charts, the last 30 days of journal) and 14 days of Order Flow, no card |
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What each one costs.
BoostYourCharts Journal
- Journal, billed annually
- $8.99 / month
- Pro, billed annually
- $14.99 / month
During their open beta every account runs Pro, free; you pick a tier when the beta ends.
NexTick360: the platform and its journal
- Free · journal: The last 30 days
- $0
- Trader · journal: All your history, with the platform
- $49 / month
- Order Flow · journal: All your history, with the platform
- $89 / month
14 days of Order Flow free, no card. Less when paid yearly. Pricing
Bringing your history with you.
Your NexTick360 journal starts with the first trade you take on it: every fill from your broker connection, with nothing to import. Bringing past trades in from a file comes after launch, so keep BoostYourCharts for your history until then and let NexTick360 record what comes next.
A journal that comes with the platform you trade on.
See the journal. Founders get 25% off the yearly price for as long as they stay. No card, no spam.