Postmortem vs Coin Market Manager: which crypto futures journal fits you?

At a glance

Pricing as of July 2026 — sources: [CMM pricing](https://coinmarketman.com/pricing/), [Postmortem pricing](/#pricing).

Pricing: the seven-times difference

Coin Market Manager’s Pro plan runs $49.99/month, or $41.66/month billed annually — roughly ₱2,800/month. There’s no free tier; you get a 7-day trial, then you subscribe.

Postmortem’s full product — auto-sync, AI coaching, backtesting, unlimited history — is ₱399/month (~$7), or ₱4,309/year. The Basic plan (auto-sync for one exchange, full analytics) is ₱299. And the Free plan is genuinely free forever: manual logging, the position-sizing calculator, and your last 7 days of history, no card required.

Two structural differences matter beyond the sticker price:

• No auto-renewal. A Postmortem payment buys one period. Nothing recharges your card by surprise; when the period ends you buy another, and paying early stacks days on top of what’s left. CMM is a standard recurring subscription.
• Local payments. Postmortem accepts GCash, Maya, GrabPay, QR Ph and online banking alongside cards — if you’re trading from Southeast Asia, you don’t need a credit card at all.

A year of CMM Pro costs about $500; a year of Postmortem Pro costs about $76. That difference is a funded sub-account.

Exchange coverage: same count, different map

Both tools connect exactly seven exchanges with read-only keys — but not the same seven.

• Both: Binance, Bybit, Bitget.
• Only Postmortem: OKX, MEXC, BingX, Bitunix.
• Only CMM: Hyperliquid, Blofin, WOO, Phemex.

The one that decides it for most traders: Hyperliquid. If your size lives on the leading perp DEX, CMM syncs it and Postmortem currently doesn’t — that alone makes CMM the right choice for you today. Conversely, if you trade OKX, MEXC, BingX or Bitunix, only Postmortem will pull those fills.

On security the approaches are similar and both sound: read-only keys only, no withdrawal permissions ever. Postmortem additionally signs exchange requests in your browser so the API secret never travels in plain text, and stores secrets AES-256-encrypted server-side. CMM states it uses read-only keys exclusively, hashed passwords, and routine security audits. Either way, create keys with trade and withdraw permissions disabled — a journal never needs them. Here’s how the read-only auto-sync works end to end.

Journaling: automated capture vs automated judgment

This is the real philosophical difference between the two products.

CMM automates the record. Its “fully automated journaling” pulls your trades, breaks down trade history, and generates performance reports and charts. What it doesn’t do is tell you what the record means — reading your own reports and drawing conclusions is on you.

*Postmortem automates the record and the review. Every synced trade gets a verdict — CLEAN, FLAGGED, or MIXED — with the reason in plain English: “Entered 4 minutes after the previous loss. 3.1× your usual position size. At least the stop was set before entry.” Mistakes like [revenge entries](/blog/stop-revenge-trading), oversizing and deleted stops are auto-tagged, and the coach totals the damage: “Third revenge trade this week — total drag −$118. Cut revenge trades and last month turns green.”*

Both tools let you tag setups and add notes. Postmortem adds one-tap mood tagging (calm, FOMO, tilted, tired) and a daily pre-plan, because in futures the expensive mistakes are behavioral — and a journal that can’t see why you entered can’t stop you doing it again.

Analytics: both strong, different depth

CMM’s analytics are mature and well-regarded: trade history breakdowns, performance analytics, multi-exchange P&L, and real-time monitoring across pairs — built for day and swing traders, and it shows.

Postmortem covers the same core — equity curve, win rate, multi-exchange aggregation — and slices P&L by setup, session, symbol and hold time, with fees and funding netted out so your numbers are honest. The aim is leak detection: turning “I do fine except Sundays after midnight” from a feeling into a line item with a cost attached.

Call analytics a draw on breadth; Postmortem points its analytics at behavior, CMM at performance reporting.

What Coin Market Manager does better

An honest list, because you should pick the right tool, not our tool:

• Hyperliquid, Blofin, WOO and Phemex support. If you trade there, this conversation is over — pick CMM.
• Public verification pages. CMM can publish your live, exchange-verified track record on a vanity URL. If you’re building an audience or managing outside money, that credibility feature has no Postmortem equivalent.
• Track record. CMM has been journaling crypto traders for years; Postmortem is the newer product. Maturity counts for edge cases and support depth.
• Enterprise tier. CMM’s Enterprise plan adds 20 extra exchange-account slots — relevant if you run many sub-accounts.

What Postmortem does that CMM doesn’t

• AI verdicts and coaching. No other crypto journal at any price stamps a plain-English verdict on every trade and names your most expensive habit. This is Postmortem’s core, not an add-on.
• [Blind backtesting](/features/backtesting). Pro drops you at a hidden date in real market history; you step forward bar by bar and trade your setup. Hindsight can’t cheat when it doesn’t know the date — so you learn your setup’s actual win rate, not the one your memory keeps.
• [Fixed-risk position sizing](/features/position-size-calculator) — two inputs, on the free plan, so the fat-fingered 20× “oops” never reaches the exchange.
• Mistake auto-tagging and mood journaling built for the four minutes after a loss, where futures accounts actually die.
• A real free plan, no auto-renewal, and local SEA payment rails.

Switching is not a migration

There’s nothing to export. Your trade history lives on the exchange, not in your journal — so “switching” means pasting the same read-only API keys into Postmortem, and Pro pulls your full derivatives history from the exchange itself, open positions included. Your old CMM account keeps whatever it has; you lose nothing by trying both against the same data for a week.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Coin Market Manager if you trade Hyperliquid or Phemex/WOO/Blofin, you want a public verified track record, or you want the longest-established tool and the price doesn’t matter.

Pick Postmortem if you trade futures on Binance, Bybit, OKX, MEXC, Bitget, BingX or Bitunix and you want the journal to do the reviewing — verdicts, mistake tags, leak totals — for about $7 a month instead of $50. Or start free and let seven days of your own fills make the argument.

Weighing more than these two? See the full roundup of the best crypto futures trading journals for how they stack up on price and features.