29/08/2026
Most CFD traders know how much they made today.
Very few can tell you WHY they made it.
That realization changed the way I started looking at trading.
As a CFD trader myself, I began studying how many traders actually track their performance.
What I discovered was interesting:
Many traders track their wins and losses.
But very few systematically track their performance.
There is a difference.
Knowing that you made 5 winning trades and 3 losing trades is information.
Knowing your win rate, average R:R, expectancy, drawdown, performance by setup, performance by instrument, ex*****on quality, consistency, and what is actually driving your results is analysis.
And that gap fascinated me.
So instead of just complaining about it, I decided to build something.
I started creating a trading performance tracking system designed to help traders move beyond simply recording trades.
The goal is to help a trader answer questions like:
What is actually working in my trading?
Which setups are producing my best results?
Where am I consistently losing money?
How does my performance change from week to week?
Am I improving, or am I simply having a good month?
Because you cannot improve what you do not measure.
Interestingly, this journey has also connected with another area I have been intentionally exploring: analytics, particularly financial analytics.
Within the week, I spend time learning, experimenting, and thinking deeply about how data can be transformed into meaningful insights.
And the more I learn analytics, the more I realize something:
Trading is not only a game of charts.
It is also a game of data.
Every trade generates data.
Every entry.
Every exit.
Every mistake.
Every winning streak.
Every drawdown.
Every setup.
The question is:
Are you collecting the data or are you learning from it?
This project has therefore become more than just building a trading tracker for me.
It is an opportunity to bring together three things I find fascinating:
Trading + Data + Technology.
I am learning by building.
And I believe the future of trading performance will belong not only to traders who can read the market, but to traders who can read themselves through their data.