The best traders don't just trade — they study. Ol' Betsy is the tried-and-true discipline of journaling, rebuilt from the ground up for Sierra Chart futures traders. Every step of your trading day, in one place, working together.
Ol' Betsy follows the natural rhythm of a trader's day — from building your morning plan, through the session, to end-of-day reflection. Every step feeds the next. Every entry builds your edge.
Write your morning game plan — market bias, key levels, what you're watching. Attach up to 2 chart screenshots. Forces you to think before you trade.
Before each trade, fill out a ticket: setup, thesis, target price, mindset. Pre-trade intent captured before the outcome is known.
After the session, sync your Sierra Chart fills. OlBetsySync auto-watches your TradeActivityLogs folder — or import manually with one click.
End of day reflection — what worked, what didn't, lessons learned. Add your end-of-day chart. The gap between your plan and reality is where growth lives.
Let the data accumulate. Stats, thesis accuracy, time of day performance, R-metrics, and your AI Coach all compound in value the longer you journal.
Most journals record what happened. Ol' Betsy's Trading Desk captures your intent before the trade — setup, thesis, target, mindset. That pre-trade record is what makes thesis accuracy tracking possible, and it's what separates process-driven traders from reactive ones.
Journaling is the oldest trick in the book — and still the most effective. Ol' Betsy makes every part of it frictionless for Sierra Chart traders on ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, CL, and GC.
Write your bias, key levels, and session game plan before the open. Attach up to 2 chart screenshots — higher timeframe context and your closer-in setup view. Think before you trade.
Create a ticket before each trade: setup, thesis, target price, mindset, notes, and screenshot. Pre-trade intent captured before outcome is known — the foundation of real self-improvement.
OlBetsySync watches your TradeActivityLogs folder and imports fills automatically. Or drop a .txt file for instant manual import. Duplicates skipped. All instruments: ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, CL, GC.
End-of-day written reflection with up to 2 chart screenshots. What worked, what didn't, lessons learned. The gap between your pre-market plan and post-market reality is where the edge is found.
P&L calendar, thesis accuracy tracking, time of day heatmap, R-multiple distribution, edge metrics, streaks & tempo, execution tag R-breakdown, duration vs R-multiple, and monthly reconciliation — all net of fees.
Connected to your live trades, tickets, journal entries, strategy, and screenshots. Knows your thesis accuracy, your best time of day, your tilt patterns. Gives you feedback built from your actual data.
Most traders have a vague sense of what they're doing wrong. Ol' Betsy shows you exactly — thesis accuracy, R-multiples, your golden hour, your worst behavioral patterns, all in one place.
The journal builds the data. The AI Coach reads all of it — trades, tickets, thesis accuracy, time-of-day patterns, tags, screenshots, and your strategy — and tells you exactly what your own history is saying.
The AI Coach can see that your thesis hits at 17% — and that when it does hit you average +1.48R. It knows the difference between a bad strategy and good strategy poorly executed.
Your time-of-day data is part of every coaching conversation. It can tell you your golden window — and call out when you're trading outside it.
Pre-market plans, trade ticket notes, post-market reflections, chart images — all context. The coach connects what you wrote to what actually happened.
You define your rules — risk limits, trading window, position sizing, setups. The coach knows when you broke them and exactly what it cost you in R.
"Ol' Betsy was my car — reliable, unglamorous, and she always got me where I needed to go. That's exactly what a good trade journal is."
Jake, Founder
ES & NQ futures trader · Sierra Chart user · Built by Jake & Claude
I sold that car to fund this. Not because journaling is exciting — it isn't. But because it's the one thing that actually works. Every profitable trader I've ever studied kept a journal. It's the tried-and-true path to a real edge, and I wanted a tool that made it dead simple for the Sierra Chart traders who've never had one built for them.
Ol' Betsy is currently in private beta. Drop your name and email below and we'll reach out personally to get you set up. Founding members lock in $9.99/mo — less than one bad trade — before the price increases at full launch.
Drop your name and email and we'll reach out personally to get you set up. Founding members lock in $9.99/mo before the price goes up at full launch.