Guides for futures traders

How to read your own trades, how to get them into Blindspot from your platform, and how Blindspot compares with other journals.

Reading your trades

• Expectancy and profit factor: what they are, how to compute them after commissions, and why 20 or 30 trades are too few to trust them.
• Trading tilt: how to spot it in your own trades: streaks after losses, size jumps and less time between trades.
• Best time of day to trade: reading your P&L by hour, sample size, sessions and timezones.
• MAE and MFE: how far each trade went against you and for you before it closed.

Comparisons

• Mentor sharing and the P&L calendar: Blindspot and Tradervue side by side, with sources.
• TradeZella alternative for futures: Blindspot, TradeZella, TradesViz and TraderSync, with sources.

Import guides

• Tradovate: automatic sync through the Tradovate API, or the Fills, Performance or Trades CSV.
• NinjaTrader: export the Trade Performance grid from NinjaTrader 8.
• TopstepX: export the Trades tab, and what Blindspot tracks of Topstep's loss limits and consistency target.
• TradingView: download your order history as a CSV.
• AMP Futures: upload the order history from the AMP web platform.
• MetaTrader 5: what works for forex and CFD traders, and what doesn't.
• DayTraders.com: upload your orders CSV.
• Apex Trader Funding, MyFundedFutures and Take Profit Trader: which platform's export to use.

ChatGPT and Claude

• Ask ChatGPT or Claude about your trades: what you can ask and how to connect.
• The MCP server: the server URL, the tools and how sign-in works.

A plain-text summary of Blindspot for AI assistants is at /llms.txt.