Radar · pattern detection
52 checks on your own trades. Every leak. Every strength.
Radar goes through your closed trades and compares them by time, behavior, risk and setup. It shows where you lose money, where your edge is, and turns each leak into a rule you can track.
Radar is included in Essential and PRO. No AI and no signals: plain statistics on your trades.
- Tilt after 2 losses
- Best session
- Moved stops
- Target reached
- Fees 31%
- 1st trade of the day
- Revenge trading
- Calm mindset
- criteria
- 28
- leak checks
- 28
- strength checks
- 24
- closed trades to start
- 20
The full list
Everything Radar checks
Filter by area or by type. Each card shows what is measured, an example of the leak and the strength it can find, and how many trades it needs.
28 of 28 criteria
- 01 · Timing
Day of the week
Net P&L and win rate for each weekday, by the day the trade closed in your time zone.
- Leak
- Your worst day: Wednesday
- Strength
- Your best day: Tuesday
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 02 · Timing
Hour of entry
Results by the hour you opened the trade. With few trades it groups 2, 3 or 4 hours so the comparison stays fair.
- Leak
- Your worst hour: 09:00–10:00
- Strength
- Your best hour: 03:00–04:00
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 03 · Timing
Market session
Each trade belongs to the session that opened most recently when you entered: Sydney, Tokyo, London or New York, or the markets you follow.
- Leak
- Your weakest session: New York
- Strength
- Your best session: London
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 04 · Timing
Outside your main session
When almost everything happens in one session, the trades taken in all the others are added up together.
- Leak
- Trading outside London costs you
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 05 · Timing
Trade number of the day
Your 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th-and-later trades of each day, compared.
- Leak
- Your 4th trade of the day and later lose
- Strength
- Your first trade of the day is your best
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 06 · Timing
Holding time
Five buckets: under 5 min, 5–30 min, 30 min–2 h, 2 h–1 day and longer.
- Leak
- Your worst holding time: 30 min–2 h
- Strength
- Your best holding time: 5–30 min
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 07 · Timing
Overnight holds
Trades closed on a later day than they opened, against those closed the same day.
- Leak
- Holding overnight costs you
- Strength
- Holding overnight works for you
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 08 · Timing
Weekend holds
Positions opened Thursday or Friday and still open after the weekend.
- Leak
- Weekend holds lose money
Needs: 3 weekend holds
- 09 · Timing
Recent trend
Your last 20 trades against everything before them.
- Leak
- Your last 20 trades are in a slump
- Strength
- Your last 20 trades are improving
Needs: 40 closed trades
- 10 · Psychology and discipline
Revenge trading
Trades opened within 15 minutes of a loss closing, and the trade right after any loss.
- Leak
- Revenge trading after a loss
- Strength
- You bounce back after a loss
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 11 · Psychology and discipline
Losing streaks
The trade after two losses in a row, against every other trade.
- Leak
- Two losses in a row put you on tilt
- Strength
- Two losses in a row don't shake you
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 12 · Psychology and discipline
Winning streaks
The trade after three wins in a row, against every other trade.
- Leak
- Winning streaks make you careless
- Strength
- You stay disciplined on a winning streak
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 13 · Psychology and discipline
Overtrading days
Days with at least twice your usual number of trades (and 3 more), against your normal days.
- Leak
- Overtrading days hurt you
Needs: 3 overtrading days
- 14 · Psychology and discipline
Mindset
The emotion you log on each trade in your journal: calm, focused, anxious, angry and the rest.
- Leak
- Trading while angry costs you
- Strength
- You trade best when you feel focused
Needs: 5 trades per mindset
- 15 · Psychology and discipline
Mistakes you tag
Your most expensive mistake tag, and trades with no mistake tagged against those with one.
- Leak
- Your costliest mistake: FOMO
- Strength
- Trades without mistakes pay
Needs: 3 tagged trades
- 16 · Risk and execution
Stop loss use
Trades without a stop against those with one, and how often you set one at all.
- Leak
- Trades without a stop loss cost you
- Strength
- You set a stop loss on 100% of your trades
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 17 · Risk and execution
Losses past the stop
Losing trades that closed more than 10% beyond the planned stop: a moved stop or slippage.
- Leak
- 8 losses went past your stop
- Strength
- You respect your stops
Needs: 5 losses past the stop
- 18 · Risk and execution
Exits against the target
How much of the planned move to the take profit your winning trades kept (median).
- Leak
- You close winners at 48% of your target
- Strength
- Your winners reach the target
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 19 · Risk and execution
Planned reward-to-risk
From the stop and target on each trade: setups under 1:1 and setups at 1:2 or better.
- Leak
- Trades planned under 1:1 lose
- Strength
- Trades planned at 1:2 or better pay
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 20 · Risk and execution
Average win against average loss
Whether your win rate covers the size of your losses, with the break-even win rate you'd need.
- Leak
- Your losses are bigger than your wins
- Strength
- Your wins are bigger than your losses
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 21 · Risk and execution
Holding losers against winners
Average time in losing trades against winning ones.
- Leak
- You hold losers longer than winners
- Strength
- You cut losses faster than winners
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 22 · Risk and execution
Outsized losses
How much of everything you lost comes from your largest 10% of losing trades.
- Leak
- A few big losses erase your gains
- Strength
- Your losses stay under control
Needs: 10 losing trades
- 23 · Risk and execution
Position size
Trades at 1.5× or more your usual size on that same symbol, against your normal size.
- Leak
- Bigger positions than usual lose
Needs: 5 trades per symbol
- 24 · Risk and execution
Fees and swaps
Commissions and swaps as a share of your gross profit.
- Leak
- Fees and swaps eat 31% of your profit
- Strength
- Fees take only 4% of your profit
Needs: 20 closed trades
- 25 · Markets and setups
Symbol
Every instrument you trade, ranked by result per trade, adjusted for how many trades each one has.
- Leak
- Your worst symbol: NAS100
- Strength
- Your best symbol: XAUUSD
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 26 · Markets and setups
Long against short
Your buys against your sells.
- Leak
- Your weaker side: shorts
- Strength
- Your stronger side: longs
Needs: 5–8 trades per group
- 27 · Markets and setups
Setups
The strategy tags on your trades: breakout, pullback, trend, range and your own.
- Leak
- Your weakest setup: breakout
- Strength
- Your best setup: pullback
Needs: 5 trades per setup
- 28 · Markets and setups
Your custom tags
Any tag you add, such as A+ setup or plan followed, compared with your average.
- Leak
- Trades tagged Review later lose
- Strength
- Trades tagged A+ setup work for you
Needs: 5 trades per tag
The method
How Radar decides what's a pattern
- 01
Group
Your closed trades are grouped by each criterion: weekday, hour, setup, streak, stop distance and the rest. Radar starts at 20 closed trades.
- 02
Filter noise
A group is only compared once it has enough trades (5 to 8, depending on your history). Small groups are pulled toward your average so luck doesn't win.
- 03
Compare with you
Never with other traders: a strength must beat your own average by 25% per trade or 5 points of win rate, and a leak must lose money or clearly lag.
- 04
Turn it into a rule
Each card says how many trades it's based on and why. One click turns a leak into a daily rule in Habits.
FAQ
Questions about Radar
What is Radar in a trading journal?
Radar is NovaTrade's pattern detection. It reads your closed trades and compares them by time, behavior, risk and setup to show where you lose money (leaks) and what works best for you (strengths).
Does Radar use AI or give trading signals?
Neither. Radar is plain statistics on your own trades, and every card says how many trades it's based on. It never tells you what to buy or sell.
How many trades do I need?
Radar starts at 20 closed trades. Each group (a weekday, an hour, a setup) needs 5 to 8 trades before it's compared, and some checks need more, such as 40 trades for your recent trend.
Which plans include Radar?
Essential ($15/month) and PRO ($35/month). The Free plan includes the journal, statistics and auto-sync.
Where does the data come from?
From your own trades: synced from MT4, MT5, cTrader or 9 crypto exchanges, imported by CSV or added by hand. Stops, targets, setups, tags and mindset come from the trade or from your journal; checks without that data are simply skipped.
What do I do with a leak?
Each leak comes with a recommendation and a Create rule button. The rule goes to Habits, where you check it every day and see if the leak closes.
Find out what your trades have been telling you
Sync your account or import a CSV. Radar starts at 20 closed trades.