Trademetria is one of the older journals in the category and it has aged well: a permanent free tier, broker auto-sync, every asset class in every plan, a REST API and accounting tools. As of July 2026 its Basic plan is $19.95/month ($169/year, ≈$14.10/month) and Pro is $29.95/month ($249/year, ≈$20.80/month). Both undercut Secuora Pro on yearly billing, and the free tier undercuts everything.
So the comparison is not "which journal is better" — Trademetria is a strong, cheap, mature journal. It is "do you need a backtester?" Secuora’s core is a bar-replay terminal, a prop-firm challenge simulator and an AI backtester, with the journal built around them. Trademetria has no replay backtesting at all. That single line decides most of these decisions.
Secuora vs Trademetria at a glance
| Feature | Secuora | Trademetria |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No permanent free plan — 3-day free trial (card required) + a no-signup live demo | Yes, permanently free: 30 order imports/month, 1 account, 3 open positions |
| Entry price | Pro $29/mo, or $23/mo billed yearly — one tier, everything | Basic $19.95/mo, or $14.10/mo billed yearly ($169/yr) |
| Top tier | Pro $29/mo ($23/mo yearly) | Pro $29.95/mo, or $20.80/mo billed yearly ($249/yr) |
| Bar-replay backtesting | Yes — the core product; crypto, forex, stocks, indices, futures, metals on 1-minute candles plus a 30-second view | ✗ |
| Prop-firm practice | Challenge simulator — targets, daily loss, max drawdown on historical data | ✗ |
| AI | AI backtester — plain-English strategy compiled to ~27 deterministic primitives and run on a deterministic engine | AI insights on your trade history (all tiers) |
| Edge / overfitting checks | Edge detector — probabilistic + deflated Sharpe, Monte Carlo p-value, minimum track record length, concentration and tail checks, penalised by how many variations you searched | ✗ |
| Broker auto-sync | ✗ | Yes — 140+ brokers and platforms, on every tier including free |
| Import limits | No import limits | 30 orders/mo (Free), 500/mo (Basic), unlimited (Pro) |
| Accounts tracked | Unlimited | 1 (Free), 1 (Basic), 50 (Pro) |
| Asset classes | Crypto, forex, stocks, indices, futures, metals | Equities, options, futures, forex, CFDs, crypto — on every tier |
| Options support | ✗ | Yes — options spread tracking |
| API access | ✗ | REST API (Basic and above) |
| Daily market data | Quant terminal — live prices, funding, positioning, news flow (Pro) | ✗ |
| Community | Community leaderboard | ✗ |
Trademetria facts verified against trademetria.com/pricing on July 17, 2026: Free ($0 — 30 orders/mo, 1 account, 3 open positions), Basic ($19.95/mo or $169/yr), Pro ($29.95/mo or $249/yr). Broker count (140+) is the vendor’s own claim.
Where Trademetria is genuinely stronger
Price, at every rung. Trademetria Basic is $14.10/month billed yearly against Secuora Pro at $23/month, and Trademetria Pro is $20.80/month yearly — still under us, with 50 accounts and unlimited imports. If the journal is all you need, we are the more expensive product and there is no clever framing that changes that.
A real free tier. Not a trial — a permanent free plan with 30 order imports a month, one account and three open positions, and it still includes broker auto-sync, the journal, the calendar and their AI insights. For a trader taking two or three positions a week, that may genuinely be enough forever. Secuora has no permanent free plan; we have a 3-day trial and a demo.
Broker auto-sync and breadth. 140+ brokers and platforms, on every tier including the free one, and options spread tracking plus a REST API — none of which Secuora has. If you trade options, or want to pull your own data out via API, this comparison is already over.
Where Secuora is stronger
The backtester, which is the whole point. Trademetria records what you did; Secuora also lets you rehearse what you are about to do. Bar-by-bar replay on real historical data across crypto, forex, stocks, indices, futures and metals, with simulated market/limit/stop orders, partial closes and session-open skips (London, New York, Asia) — and every replay trade logs itself into the journal with session stats. Trademetria has no replay backtesting.
Prop-firm rehearsal. Secuora’s challenge mode simulates an evaluation — account size, profit target, daily loss limit, max drawdown — on historical data, so you can find out whether you can pass before paying a firm for an attempt. Trademetria has nothing comparable.
Testing ideas, not just reviewing them. Trademetria’s AI reads your past trades. Secuora’s AI backtester takes a strategy you have not traded yet, in plain English, compiles it to roughly 27 deterministic primitives (FVG, order block, liquidity sweep, MSS/BOS, EMA/RSI/MACD, VWAP, opening range and more) and runs it deterministically. Those answer different questions: "what did I do wrong?" versus "would this idea have worked?"
The honest recommendation
If you already have a strategy and you want to track and tax-report your live trading across asset classes, cheaply, with your broker feeding it automatically — Trademetria is the better buy, and its free tier means you can settle that today at no cost.
If you are still trying to find a strategy that works, the backtester is worth more than the price difference. Secuora’s own research at /strategy ran 40-plus popular recipes on a year of BTC and ETH data: after commissions, every one finished underwater. Finding that out in a replay costs $29. Finding it out live costs considerably more.
Choose Secuora if you…
- want bar-replay backtesting — Trademetria has none
- are preparing for a prop-firm evaluation and want to rehearse the rules
- want to test a strategy idea in plain English before trading it
- want replay trades to journal themselves alongside your live ones
- want a daily market terminal in the same subscription
Choose Trademetria if you…
- want a genuinely free journal, forever, not a trial
- need broker auto-sync — Secuora has none
- trade options and need spread tracking
- want the cheapest capable journal (from $14.10/mo billed yearly)
- track many accounts (up to 50) or want REST API access to your data
Frequently asked questions
Is Secuora a good Trademetria alternative?
Only if you want backtesting. Secuora adds bar-replay backtesting, a prop-firm challenge simulator and an AI backtester that Trademetria does not have. But Trademetria is cheaper at every tier, has a permanent free plan, syncs 140+ brokers automatically and supports options — none of which Secuora matches. Pick on backtesting: if you need it, Secuora; if you do not, Trademetria.
Is Trademetria really free?
Yes — a permanent free plan, not a trial. As of July 2026 it allows 30 order imports a month, 1 account and 3 tracked open positions, and still includes the journal, calendar, broker auto-sync and their AI insights. Secuora has no permanent free tier: new accounts get a 3-day free trial of the full product, plus a live demo that needs no sign-up.
Which is cheaper?
Trademetria, at every rung. Free at $0; Basic $19.95/month or $14.10/month billed yearly; Pro $29.95/month or $20.80/month billed yearly. Secuora Pro is $29/month or $23/month billed yearly. Secuora costs more because the subscription includes a replay backtester, a prop-firm simulator, an AI backtester and a quant terminal — if you will not use those, you are paying for nothing.
Does Trademetria have backtesting?
No bar-replay backtesting. It is a journal and portfolio tracker: it analyses trades you have already taken, across equities, options, futures, forex, CFDs and crypto. Secuora’s replay terminal lets you trade historical data bar by bar, with simulated orders and a prop-firm challenge mode, and logs those trades into the same journal.
Can Secuora import my broker trades like Trademetria?
No. Secuora has no broker auto-sync — replay trades are journaled automatically from the backtester, and live trades are logged manually with screenshots, emotions and rule tracking. Trademetria auto-syncs 140+ brokers on every tier, including the free one. If automatic import is a hard requirement, Trademetria fits better.