Journal · Trade analysis · Market calendar · Market clock · Alarms

What Chart Ding does

Chart Ding is a trading journal with trade analysis, a market calendar, a market clock and alarm sounds. Together they cover a trading day from the night before to the review after the close. It is one subscription, and you can try all of it on demo accounts without signing up.

At a glance

When	Part	What it does	Where
The night before	Market calendar	Every scheduled date that moves price, with alarms on the ones you choose.	Calendar
During the session	Market clock	Market time, your time, world clocks, and which exchanges are open.	Clock
During the session	Alarms and sounds	An audible call on each candle close, and on the opens and closes.	Clock
After the close	Trade analysis	Your own trades, added up from your broker's file, broken down every way.	Analysis
After the close	Journal	Notes tied to the trades and the days they belong to.	Analysis

Before the tradeThe market calendar

The dates that move price, found and kept in one calendar, so you are not chasing them down every week:

Rate decisions from seven central banks, including FOMC decisions, minutes and blackout periods.
Economic releases: CPI, PPI, the jobs report, jobless claims, PCE, GDP, JOLTS, retail sales, housing starts, consumer sentiment and more.
Company earnings.
Monthly options expiration, triple witching, VIX settlement and futures rolls.
Index rebalances and the Russell reconstitution.
Market holidays, half days and the clock changes.

You can sort it to the markets you trade: turn crypto off and leave the Fed on, for example. Every plan can read the whole calendar. On Pro you can set an alarm on any date, add your own dates (earnings you care about, a prop-firm reset, anything with a date on it), and search, filter and save a view.

During the tradeThe market clock and world clocks

Market time and your local time side by side, with world clocks for the other markets you follow. A status bar shows US equities, futures, FX and other markets as open or closed, with a countdown to the next open or close.

Eighteen exchanges with their real trading sessions, including New York, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, São Paulo, Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney.
The parts of the day: pre-market, the opening drive, mid-morning, lunch, the afternoon, the power hour and after hours.
A world map with the real daylight band for the time shown, and every session on one screen.
Up to six world clocks you choose, in any time zone.

During the tradeCandle-close alarms and alarm sounds

Interval alarms at the close of each candle you choose: 1, 3, 5, 15 or 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, daily, or a custom interval.
An early warning: interval alarms can sound 1 to 10 seconds before the close, market alarms 1 to 20 seconds before.
Market alarms for the open and the close, and your own alarms for market events.
Built-in sounds you can set per alarm. On Pro you can upload your own.
Alarms dismiss themselves, or repeat, as you set them.
Every alarm follows the main clock's time zone.

The point is that your eyes can stay on the chart. You hear the close instead of watching the seconds count down.

During the tradeKeeping the clock where you need it

Stealth Mode (Premium and up): a small pop-out clock that stays on top of your charts, with candle countdowns and market status.
Compact mode: a minimal view that fits beside other windows.
Install it as an app on a computer or phone, so it runs in its own window and keeps working offline after the first load.
Profiles: save different alarm setups for different strategies, time zones or trips, and switch between them. Profiles can be exported and imported.
Cloud sync (Pro): your setup follows you to any device you sign in on.
Light or dark, with your own colors and clock size.

After the tradeThe trade analysis dashboard

Every trade you take, added up the way a desk reads it. Across the top: net P&L, expectancy, profit factor, win rate, average win and loss, maximum drawdown, fee drag and median hold time. You choose which tiles sit there and where the panels go, and it opens the same way tomorrow.

Account statistics for any date range: results and streaks, days and weeks, drawdown, and return, risk and consistency.
A cumulative P&L curve and daily P&L bars.
A check on what happened right after a losing trade: how soon you traded again, at what size, and how those trades did against your normal.
Recent trades and open positions.

After the tradeThe daily P&L calendar

Every day of the month, won or lost, with weekly totals. The market events of each day are printed on the same square, so you can go back to the last rate decision and see what you did. Right-click a day for its trades, dates, journal notes and alarms. Futures trades after 6 p.m. ET count toward the next trading day.

After the tradeStatistics and reports

Your results, broken down eleven ways:

Symbol
Day of week
Hour of day
Market session
Holding time
Long vs short
Instrument type
Trade number that day
Biggest winners vs losers
Winning vs losing days
Against benchmarks

Any breakdown can be crossed with any other: symbol by weekday, session by hold time. A figure built on a small sample says so beside it.

After the tradeTrades, down to every execution

A round trip is made of fills. Open any trade and every fill is there in the order it happened, with what each one cost, fees and commissions included. Futures, options, stocks, forex and crypto can sit in the same account. Expired options are handled: the whole premium paid rolls into the cost basis.

After the tradeThe trading journal

A note written days later appears under the day it is about and under the day you wrote it. It is one note, editable from either.
Every note links to its account and its trade, and back again.
Tags you can search, with your own added to the built-in ones (breakout, pullback, reversal, range and others).
Search notes, tickers, tags and dates together.
It saves as you type.

After the tradeAccounts, groups and currencies

As many accounts as you have, with no per-account fee: an evaluation, a funded account and a brokerage account side by side.
Group accounts once, each group color-coded, and picking one brings the rest along.
Tick or untick any account and every figure recomputes for what is ticked.
See results in the currency they were reported in, or convert the view to one of twenty-four currencies.

After the tradeBringing your trades in

Drop in the file your broker or platform already gives you: a CSV, an Excel export, or a statement copied off the screen. Several files at once are fine. The columns are worked out for you by reading the values down each column, with an AI assist when they are still unclear. Nothing is saved until you have seen what it found.

It reads exports from platforms prop firms use, including Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Rithmic, Sierra Chart, DAS Trader and PropReports. There is no brokerage login: you export a file, and Chart Ding never asks for your broker password.

What it does not do

Chart Ding reports what happened. It gives no signals, setups or trading advice, and it does not place trades. It is an alarm, record-keeping and statistics tool, not financial advice.

Plans and prices

Plan	Price	What it adds
Free	$0	The full demo, every calendar date to read, three interval alarms, one market alarm and one world clock.
Premium	$4.99 a month or $36 a year	Unlimited interval and market alarms, all six world clocks, every built-in sound, and Stealth Mode.
Pro	$7.99 a month or $60 a year	Cloud sync, your own sounds, and the working calendar: alarms on dates, your own dates, search and saved views.
Pro Plus	$29.99 a month or $240 a year	Trade analysis and the journal on your own imported trades, with unlimited accounts.