ExpectancyIQ

Hey Folks — first post here, long-time lurker.

I've been building ExpectancyIQ, a trading journal for futures and prop-firm traders, over the last couple months. Wanted to share what got me into it and a few things I learned along the way, in case it's useful to anyone else building in fintech/trading tools.

The gap I kept running into: every trading journal I tried treated futures like an afterthought — approximate P&L math, no sense of session timing (CME/Globex hours), commission estimated as a flat rate instead of actual fills-based FIFO cost. If you trade futures seriously, especially in a prop-firm eval, those approximations compound into numbers that don't match your real account.

What I ended up building:

- Auto-sync from Tradovate, NinjaTrader, cTrader, and Topstep (plus generic CSV import for anything else)

- Session-aware timing that actually understands the CME trading-day roll

- Exact FIFO commission per trade, not a guess

- A Monte Carlo risk simulator built specifically for prop-firm eval accounts — drawdown limits, consistency rules, the stuff that actually gets you disqualified

- A deposits/withdrawals ledger so your journal equity reconciles with your real broker statement

Honest limitation: it's futures/CFD/forex only right now — no stock or options broker integration. Didn't want to half-build that just to check a box.

It's free to start (1 account, 50 trades, no card required) — expectancyiq.com if anyone wants to poke at it. Genuinely curious to hear from anyone else who's built for a niche audience like this — did narrowing the focus help or hurt your early traction?