Free trading journal with an economic calendar (2026)
Free trading journal with a built-in news calendar: filter by impact and currency, see the next high-impact event and use it in your daily routine.
Most traders have two tabs open before the session: the Forex Factory or Investing calendar, and the journal. They check the CPI time in one, log the trade in the other, and at the end of the month nobody connects the two. That makes it impossible to know how many losses came in the five minutes around a release.
In TradiBook the economic calendar lives inside the journal and comes with the free plan, no card and no expiry.
What the TradiBook calendar includes
- Economic calendar in your time zone. No adding or subtracting hours: NFP shows at the time you'll actually experience it.
- Filter by impact and currency. If you trade the Nasdaq, keep high-impact USD and everything else disappears.
- The next high-impact event, with a countdown, right at the top.
- Breaking news: market headlines.
- Market: Nasdaq sentiment and positioning.
And when you log a no-trade day you can mark the reason High-impact news, so the journal tells apart the day you stayed out by discipline from the day your setup didn't show up.
Compared with Forex Factory and Investing
Both calendars are good, free and used by half the industry. Their downside is that they live outside the journal.
| TradiBook | Forex Factory | Investing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free | Free |
| Calendar in your time zone | Yes | Yes, configurable | Yes, configurable |
| Filter by impact and currency | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Next to your trades | Yes | No | No |
| No-trade days due to news | Yes | No | No |
If Forex Factory is your habit, you don't need to drop it. What changes is where you record what you did around that release.
How to use news in your routine
Before the session
Open the calendar filtered by your currency and high impact. Write down in your daily plan the windows where you won't open positions: for example, from five minutes before to ten minutes after each release. If there's FOMC in the afternoon, decide in the morning whether you'll be in or out, not at 1:59 pm.
During the session
The countdown to the next high-impact event is at the top. If you have an open position and two minutes left, you made the decision before starting: close, move to breakeven or hold with the stop in place. Improvising with the spread wide open is the most expensive way to decide.
After the session
Note on each trade whether you opened or closed it near a release. At the end of the month, review those trades separately: if they drag you down, you know which rule to add to your procedure.
On days you don't trade because of news, mark them with the reason. A month with six days out for news and no big loss says more about your discipline than your win rate.
News and funded accounts
Some firms restrict trading around high-impact news, especially on funded accounts: they don't let you open or close in a window of minutes around the release, or they don't count profit made in it. Others have no restriction at all. It depends on the firm and the program, so read their terms and add it to your daily plan.
On top of that, a news release is when intraday trailing blows your account with a single wick: the spike raises the floor and the reversal hits it. If your account has that drawdown, read EOD vs static drawdown before the next CPI.
To build the rest of the routine, how to keep a trading journal explains what to log and what to measure, and best free trading journals compares the free plans.
Start free: the calendar is included in the free plan, with one strategy, one account and unlimited trades.
Prices and terms checked in November 2026. Tools in this industry change them every few months: confirm on their website before deciding.
What makes TradiBook different
Every journal imports trades and shows a win rate. Not this.
Apex, Topstep, FundedNext, Tradeify… each account with its firm's logo and color, not a list of grey text. You recognize the account at a glance.
Card styles, light and dark theme, wallpapers and figures in money or percentage. One tap to change and it stays that way.
Minimal and polished: no twenty-tab menus or endless tables. Works just as well on your phone as on your computer.
Almost every journal is built by a software team. This one is run by a trader who also coaches other traders every day.
Funded account trader and trading coach: he reviews other traders' trading and helps them stop blowing accounts. That's where TradiBook came from. He didn't build it to sell a product: he built it because he needed to track his own accounts and no tool measured what mattered to him. Building it for his case, it ended up fitting anyone who trades funded accounts, because the problems are the same: the floor that moves, the accounts lost along the way and the plan that isn't followed.
Plan adherence, no-trade days and what you repeat most, measured automatically. Free plan, no card.
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