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Postmortem vs Tradervue: which journal fits a crypto futures trader?

Last updated August 21, 2026 · By the Postmortem team · 7 min read
Postmortem is our product — we say plainly where Tradervue is the better pick. Every Tradervue figure on this page was read off their own pricing page on 21 August 2026 and is linked at the foot of the page.

THE SHORT VERSION

Here is the finding that decides this comparison for most people reading it: Tradervue’s own plan-comparison table lists stocks and ETFs, futures, forex and options support — and no crypto row at all. Tradervue is one of the longest-running journals on the market, now owned by SureSwift Capital, with a deservedly strong reputation for review, mentoring and community sharing among equities and broker-futures traders. Crypto is simply not a category it advertises.

So the short version is unusually short: if you journal equities or broker futures and want a mature, well-worn tool with a real mentoring layer, Tradervue is an excellent pick at $29.95 (Silver) or $49.95 (Gold) a month, and it has a free tier to start on. If your book is crypto perps, this is not a close call — you want a journal that knows what funding is. That is what Postmortem does, at ₱399–₱1,149/month (about $7–$20, depending on your country), free plan, no card.

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At a glance

FeaturePostmortemTradervue
FocusCrypto futures onlyMulti-asset, equities-heavy
Crypto exchange auto-sync✅ Binance, Bybit, OKX, MEXC, Bitget, BingX, Bitunix❌ No crypto row on their plan comparison table
Stocks / ETFs❌ by design✅ both tiers
Broker futures / forex / options❌ by design✅ both tiers
Broker syncn/a — exchange keys✅ both tiers
Read-only API keys✅ (signed in your browser)n/a
AI coaching / trade verdicts✅ Pro❌
Mistake auto-tagging✅ ProManual tagging and filtering
Mood & psychology tagging✅ all plansManual tags
Blind backtesting (chart replay)✅ Pro❌
Position size calculator✅ free plan❌ (risk tracking and reporting on Gold)
Funding & fees netted out✅Commission and fee support on Gold
Mentoring / community sharing❌ by design✅ unlimited mentors and mentees — their signature feature
Advanced reportsFocused: setup, session, symbol, hold time100+ on both tiers
Free tier✅ forever (1 exchange, 30 days)✅ free plan; trials on Silver/Gold auto-charge unless you downgrade
Top price, monthly₱399–₱1,149 ≈ $7–$20$49.95 (Gold)
Entry paid price, monthly₱299–₱859 ≈ $5–$15$29.95 (Silver)
Auto-renewalNone — one payment, one periodSubscription; trial converts automatically
PaymentsGCash, Maya, GrabPay, QR Ph, banking, cardCard

Postmortem pricing from our own [pricing page](/#pricing). Tradervue rows read off [their pricing page](https://www.tradervue.com/site/pricing) on 21 August 2026.

The crypto question, answered first

Most "vs" pages bury the disqualifier. This one shouldn’t. Tradervue publishes a full plan-comparison table, and that table has explicit rows for Stocks and ETFs, Futures support, Forex support and Options support. There is no crypto row on either tier. Their whole public surface — the broker pages in their footer are Tradestation, Ameritrade, Interactive Brokers, Lightspeed, TradeZero, DAS, Sterling, E-Trade — is a brokerage surface.

That is not a criticism. Tradervue is very good at what it targets, and a journal that stays out of a category it can’t model properly is more honest than one that bolts on a crypto import and quietly drops funding. But if you are here because you trade perps on Bybit, the practical answer is that Tradervue has nothing to import them with.

Pricing

Tradervue runs two paid tiers. Silver is $29.95/month — unlimited trade imports, unlimited trading accounts, unlimited mentors and mentees, broker sync, advanced reporting, 1 GB of image storage. Gold is $49.95/month and adds trade-exit performance analysis, max-potential-P&L analysis, commission and fee support, liquidity reports and 5 GB of storage. There is a free plan, and trials on Silver or Gold auto-charge your card when the trial ends unless you switch down to free first — worth a calendar reminder.

Postmortem is ₱399–₱1,149/month (~$7–$20, depending on your country) for Pro — unlimited exchanges, backtesting, portfolio tracking, unlimited history — or ₱4,309–₱12,409/year. Basic 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. A Postmortem payment buys one period and never auto-renews, and we take GCash, Maya, GrabPay, QR Ph and online banking as well as cards.

Review workflow: the thing Tradervue is known for

Tradervue’s reputation rests on a disciplined review loop — annotate trades, write up your day, and share journals with a mentor or the wider community. Both tiers include unlimited mentors and mentees, and Gold lets you include P&L data with shared trades. For traders who learn best by having another human read their entries, and for anyone running a trading group, that social layer is genuinely valuable. Postmortem has no equivalent: no public sharing, no mentor accounts, by choice.

Postmortem points the same effort at a different target. Instead of giving you a better place to write the review, it writes the first draft: every synced trade gets a CLEAN / FLAGGED / MIXED verdict with the reason in plain English, mistakes like revenge entries and oversizing are auto-tagged, and the coach totals the cost of each habit so the conclusion arrives with a price on it. One tap adds mood at entry (calm, FOMO, tilted, tired), because in futures the expensive mistakes are behavioural.

Put crudely: Tradervue is the better notebook and the better classroom. Postmortem is the better analyst. If you already do the review reliably every week — and especially if a mentor is reading it — you may not need ours.

Perps are not stocks, and the maths knows it

Funding, leverage and liquidation distance are what separate a crypto-futures journal from a general one. A stocks-first tool can log the fill perfectly and still tell you a position was flat when eleven hours of funding made it a loss, or treat a 2% adverse move the same at 3× and at 20×.

Postmortem connects Binance, Bybit, OKX, MEXC, Bitget, BingX and Bitunix with read-only keys, signs requests in your browser so the secret never travels in plain text, and stores secrets AES-256-encrypted. It nets funding and fees out of every trade and slices P&L by setup, session, symbol and hold time — the aim is turning “I do fine except Sundays after midnight” into a line item with a cost attached. Full walkthrough: how read-only auto-sync works.

What Tradervue does better

  • Multi-asset coverage. Stocks, ETFs, broker futures, forex and options are categories Postmortem doesn’t serve at all.
  • Track record and maturity. Tradervue has been journaling traders for well over a decade and is now backed by SureSwift Capital. That shows in imports, edge cases and support.
  • Mentoring and community review. Unlimited mentors and mentees on both tiers, with optional P&L on shared trades. A journal another person can read is something Postmortem deliberately doesn’t offer.
  • Report depth. More than 100 advanced reports on both tiers, with interactive drill-down, MFE/MAE statistics and Renko/Volume/Range-bar charts.
  • Exit analysis. Gold’s trade-exit performance and max-potential-P&L analysis is a genuinely good feature we don’t match.

What Postmortem does that Tradervue doesn’t

  • Crypto, at all. This is the whole comparison. Seven exchanges, read-only keys, perps as first-class objects.
  • AI verdicts and coaching on every trade, naming your most expensive habit with the damage totalled.
  • Native crypto-futures maths — funding and fees netted out, leverage and liquidation first-class.
  • [Blind backtesting](/features/backtesting) on real candles at a hidden date, so hindsight can’t inflate your setup’s win rate.
  • [Fixed-risk position sizing](/features/position-size-calculator) on the free plan.
  • No auto-renewal — no trial that quietly charges a card — and local SEA payment rails.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Tradervue if you trade equities, ETFs, options, forex or broker futures, you want the mature tool with the deepest review-and-share workflow, or a mentor is going to be reading your journal.

Pick Postmortem if any meaningful part of your book is crypto perps. Tradervue does not list crypto support, so this isn’t really a comparison of two options — it’s a check that you’re in the right shop. Start free: one exchange, 30 days, the full leak diagnosis, no card.

Want a journal that does cover both worlds? Postmortem vs TraderSync and Postmortem vs TradesViz both weigh multi-asset tools that do sync crypto, or see the full roundup of the best crypto futures trading journals.

Common questions

Does Tradervue support crypto futures?

Not according to their own published plan comparison. Tradervue’s pricing page lists explicit rows for stocks and ETFs, futures, forex and options support on both the Silver and Gold tiers, and no crypto row on either. Their supported-broker pages are all equities brokers. Checked 21 August 2026.

Is there a free plan?

Both have one. Postmortem: one exchange auto-synced, 30 days of history, the full leak diagnosis, no card. Tradervue: a free plan exists, and trials of Silver or Gold automatically charge your card when the trial ends unless you switch back to free before then.

Which is cheaper?

Postmortem. Tradervue is $29.95/month for Silver and $49.95/month for Gold. Postmortem Pro is ₱399–₱1,149/month — about $7–$20 depending on your country — with a free forever tier and no auto-renewal. Figures checked 21 August 2026.

Can I move my Tradervue history to Postmortem?

For crypto there is nothing to move, because Tradervue does not import it. Equities and broker-futures history has nowhere to go in Postmortem either, because we don’t cover those assets. If you trade both, keep both — they genuinely do not overlap.

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Sources (verified August 21, 2026, re-verified quarterly): Tradervue pricing · Tradervue (official site) · Postmortem pricing

Postmortem is a journaling tool, not financial advice. Competitor information verified from public sources on the date above — tell us at support@postmortem-tradingjournal.com if anything is out of date.