At a glance
| Feature | Postmortem | TraderSync |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Crypto futures only | Stocks, options, futures, forex, crypto |
| Crypto exchange auto-sync | ✅ Binance, Bybit, OKX, MEXC, Bitget, BingX, Bitunix | ⚠️ Crypto is supported; the exchange list is not published — it sits behind their help centre |
| Stocks / options / forex | ❌ by design | ✅ all three |
| Read-only API keys | ✅ (signed in your browser) | Not stated publicly |
| AI coaching / trade verdicts | ✅ Pro | ✅ Cypher — 5 messages/day on Pro; Cypher Coach on higher tiers |
| Mistake auto-tagging | ✅ Pro | ⚠️ Strategy Checker flags deviations from a plan you define |
| Mood & psychology tagging | ✅ all plans | Custom tags, not a dedicated mood field |
| Backtesting / chart replay | ✅ Blind — hidden date | ✅ Market Replay, 1-min tick precision, incl. crypto |
| Position size calculator | ✅ free plan | ❌ (Strategy Checker sets risk rules, not size) |
| Funding & fees netted out | ✅ | Commissions & fees on Premium; perp funding not documented |
| Free tier | ✅ forever (1 exchange, 30 days) | ❌ — 7-day trial only |
| Entry price, monthly | ₱299–₱859 ≈ $5–$15 | $29.95 (Pro) |
| Top price, monthly | ₱399–₱1,149 ≈ $7–$20 | $49.95 (Premium); Elite above that |
| Annual price | ₱4,309–₱12,409 | $269.52 (Pro) / $449.52 (Premium) |
| Auto-renewal | None — one payment, one period | Subscription |
| Payments | GCash, Maya, GrabPay, QR Ph, banking, card | Card |
Postmortem pricing from our own [pricing page](/#pricing). TraderSync rows read off [tradersync.com/pricing](https://tradersync.com/pricing) and their product pages on 21 August 2026.
Pricing
TraderSync sells three tiers. Pro is $29.95/month ($22.46/month billed annually, $269.52/year) and covers 5 trading accounts, the Strategy Checker, Trade Replay and 5 Cypher AI messages a day. Premium is $49.95/month ($37.46/month annually, $449.52/year) and lifts accounts to unlimited and adds commissions-and-fees support. Elite sits above that. There is a 7-day free trial and no free plan — you cannot test it against your own fills without handing over a card first.
Postmortem’s full product — unlimited exchanges, backtesting, portfolio tracking, unlimited history — is ₱399–₱1,149/month (~$7–$20, depending on your country), or ₱4,309–₱12,409/year. Basic (two exchanges, six months of history, full analytics) is ₱299–₱859. Free is free forever: auto-sync for one exchange, your last 30 days analysed, the leak diagnosis, and the position-sizing calculator — no card.
At the top of each range, Postmortem Pro is about $20/month against TraderSync Premium at $49.95. At the bottom — which is where most Southeast Asian traders land — it is about $7 against $29.95. Two structural differences sit on top of the number: a Postmortem payment buys one period and does not auto-renew, and we take GCash, Maya, GrabPay, QR Ph and online banking alongside cards, so a trader in SEA doesn’t need a credit card at all.
Coverage: brokers vs exchanges
This is the real fork. TraderSync’s import breadth is aimed at brokers — the long integration list is what you’re paying for if you trade equities, options or CME futures, and it is a genuinely strong list.
Crypto is a first-class asset class for them on paper: they publish a Crypto Trading Journal page and a Crypto Market Replay simulator. What they do not publish is which exchanges actually sync. Their "supported brokers" page defers to a list inside the help centre rather than naming venues publicly, so before you subscribe, open a chat with their support and ask directly whether your exchange syncs by API — and whether perpetual futures come through as perps or as spot-shaped fills.
Postmortem syncs seven crypto exchanges and nothing else: Binance, Bybit, OKX, MEXC, Bitget, BingX and Bitunix. Keys are read-only, requests are signed in your browser so the secret never travels in plain text, and secrets are stored AES-256-encrypted server-side. Create the key with trading and withdrawals disabled — a journal never needs them. Here’s how the read-only auto-sync works end to end.
If you hold a brokerage account and a Binance account, honestly: one journal for both is worth more than either tool’s feature list. Take TraderSync.
Perps are not stocks, and the maths knows it
A journal built stocks-first records a fill, a size and a P&L. Crypto futures add three things that change the number: funding paid or received over the hold, leverage (which decides whether a 2% move was a scratch or a margin call), and liquidation distance. If those aren’t first-class, your “P&L per setup” is a rounded-off approximation, and the position that quietly bled funding for eleven hours looks like a break-even trade.
Postmortem nets funding and fees out of every trade and slices P&L by setup, session, symbol and hold time. TraderSync documents commissions-and-fees support on Premium but says nothing about perpetual funding anywhere public — which is the tell you would expect from a data model built around brokerage commissions. Test it during the trial with a funded, leveraged position whose true cost you already know, and check the number matches.
Automated capture vs automated judgment
Both tools now ship an AI layer, and they point it at different jobs. TraderSync’s Cypher is a conversational assistant: you ask it about your trades and it answers, rate-limited to 5 messages a day on Pro, with a "Cypher Coach" tier above that offering periodic guided feedback. It is a very good analyst you have to remember to open.
Postmortem automates the review without being asked. 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.” Revenge entries, 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.” No prompt, no message budget, and it arrives on the trades you would least want to open.
What TraderSync does better
An honest list, because you should pick the right tool, not our tool:
- Multi-asset coverage. Stocks, options, broker futures and forex, all in one journal. If any part of your book sits outside crypto, Postmortem simply doesn’t serve you.
- Broker integration breadth. This is the category TraderSync is built for and we are not in it at all.
- Market Replay across four asset classes, with 1-minute tick precision, Level II, time-and-sales, screeners and an options chain. Our backtesting is deliberately narrow by comparison — one asset class, blind replay, no market-depth widgets.
- Strategy Checker. You define a trade plan with time filters, risk rules and position limits up front, and it tracks adherence. Postmortem judges after the fact; TraderSync also guards before.
- Maturity and 24/7 live chat support. They have been in market far longer than we have, and it shows in edge cases.
What Postmortem does that TraderSync doesn’t
- Unprompted verdicts on every trade — a plain-English judgment and a named most-expensive habit, with no daily message cap and nothing to remember to ask.
- A published exchange list. You can see, before paying anything, that your venue is covered.
- [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.
- [Fixed-risk position sizing](/features/position-size-calculator) — two inputs, on the free plan, so the fat-fingered 20× “oops” never reaches the exchange.
- Crypto-futures maths by default — funding and fees netted out, leverage and liquidation treated as first-class.
- A real free plan — TraderSync has none — 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. Run both against the same week of fills and let your own data decide.
Which one should you pick?
Pick TraderSync if your book spans asset classes — equities, options, broker futures — and you want one journal covering all of it, or you need a specific broker integration, or the pre-trade Strategy Checker is the discipline tool you’ve been missing.
Pick Postmortem if you trade crypto futures on Binance, Bybit, OKX, MEXC, Bitget, BingX or Bitunix and you want the journal to do the reviewing: verdicts, mistake tags, leak totals, funding netted out — at a fraction of the price, without a card. Start free and let a week of your own fills make the argument.
Weighing more than these two? See the roundup of the best crypto futures trading journals, or the crypto-native head-to-head, Postmortem vs Coin Market Manager.