The trading journal for Canadian traders
Built solo in Canada for traders on Wealthsimple, Questrade and everything else. Keep the TFSA, the RRSP and the margin account as separate books, hold CAD and USD side by side, and read your own notes back to you.
sizeforzero is a trading journal built solo in Canada for Canadian retail traders. You keep a separate book for each account — TFSA, RRSP, margin — hold CAD and USD side by side, sync Wealthsimple daily, and import Questrade or any other broker by CSV. Free forever, unlimited trades, no credit card.
Is there a trading journal built for Canadian traders?
Yes. sizeforzero is built solo in Canada, priced in Canadian dollars for Canadian accounts, and PIPEDA-compliant. Wealthsimple syncs daily; Questrade, IBKR, TD and RBC come in by CSV. It reports in CAD. It is a journal, not a broker and not a tax tool — it records what you did and why you did it.
Most journals are built for a US trader on a US broker, quote a US price, and treat a Canadian account as an afterthought. This one starts from the other end: Canadian pricing, Canadian privacy law, and the two brokers Canadian retail traders actually use.
- Wealthsimple connects once, read-only, and your fills arrive on their own every day.
- Questrade, IBKR, TD and RBC are CSV import — drag the file, and the parser does the rest.
- Stocks and single-leg options, with strike, expiry and right on every contract.
Can I track TFSA, RRSP and non-registered accounts separately?
Yes, by account. You create one book per account and name it — Questrade TFSA, RRSP, Margin — and every trade belongs to one of them. Analytics, the calendar and the equity curve all filter by account. There is no TFSA/RRSP dropdown; the name you choose is the label.
A book is just an account you name, so the split matches how you actually think about your money: one for the TFSA, one for the RRSP, one for the margin account. Trades land in the book you filed them under, and every screen — the equity curve, the calendar heatmap, the trades table — takes an account scope, so you can read the TFSA on its own or all books together.
Accounts that arrive from a Wealthsimple sync come pre-named by their broker type, so a TFSA shows up as a TFSA without you typing anything. Manual books ask for a name, an optional broker and a currency — nothing else.
How do I journal Questrade trades?
Questrade does not auto-sync. Export your account activity from Questrade as a CSV, drag it onto the Import and Export page, and every fill lands once — no phantoms, no double counts. From there you get the equity curve, calendar P&L and your own notes read back. Wealthsimple is the only broker that syncs by itself.
Import correctness has had release after release spent on it, because a journal that miscounts is worse than no journal. If a fill is already in the book, importing the same file again will not duplicate it. Full detail lives on the Questrade journal page.
Does it handle CAD and USD in the same account?
Yes. Each book carries a base currency — CAD, USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, JPY or CHF — and a broker account with a CAD side and a USD side is shown as one account, not two. Figures are converted at the day rate for blended totals, and the rate used is shown.
A blended figure always says what it did: the pair, the rate and the date it used. Nothing is silently converted, and you can set the currency you want to read totals in.
Will day trading in my TFSA cause a problem with the CRA?
This is not tax advice. The CRA can treat a TFSA that is carrying on a business as taxable, and frequency alone is not the test — intention, holding period and your knowledge all weigh in. A written record of why you took each trade is evidence of intent. Talk to a Canadian accountant.
A journal does not change your tax position, and nothing here is tax advice. What it does give you is a contemporaneous written record — the thesis you had before the trade, not a story reconstructed years later. That is the kind of evidence an accountant can work with.
The longer version, with the factors the CRA actually weighs, is here: TFSA day trading in Canada — when the CRA calls it business income.
What does a Canadian trading journal cost?
The journal is free forever: unlimited trades, every account, full analytics, calendar P&L and CSV in and out, with no credit card. Pro is CA$20 a month or CA$200 a year (US$15 / US$150 if you switch to USD in Settings → Plan) and turns the AI always-on, with a 30-day free trial you can cancel in one click.
The free plan is the whole journal, not a trial of it. Pro only changes how often the AI reads your notes back to you. The full breakdown is on pricing.
Is my journal private under Canadian privacy law?
Your notes are yours. They are never sold, never used to train models, and read only to write your own letters. Sign-in is a magic link, so there is no password to leak. Data is held on Google Cloud with TLS in transit and encryption at rest, PIPEDA and CCPA compliant.
We are early, and there are no testimonials on this page because we will not invent them. Built solo in Canada — no VC, no investors, no data sale.
What does not ship yet
The honest list, so you can decide before you sign up rather than after.
- Wealthsimple is the only broker that auto-syncs. Every other broker is CSV import.
- Single-leg options only — no multi-leg spreads, no futures, no crypto.
- No tax forms and no adjusted-cost-base reporting. This is a journal, not tax software.
- No testimonials, no user counts, no ratings — we have not earned them yet.
Start with the TFSA, add the RRSP later. Unlimited trades, no credit card, and you can export everything you put in.
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For informational purposes only. Not financial advice, and not tax advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.