Echo is a Chrome extension that lets you tag what you are feeling while the position is still open. One click. The tags sync to your SubTrades journal and match themselves to your trades on import.
By the time the session ends, you are not recalling the trade. You are reconstructing it, and you are doing it with information you did not have at the time: the outcome.
That changes the record in a specific way. A loss gets a tidy explanation, because a tidy explanation is easier to live with than "I took it because I was down ₹8,000 and could not sit still". A win becomes evidence of a plan you did not actually have. The urge that produced the entry is not remembered as an urge, it is remembered as a read on the market. None of that is dishonesty. It is what memory does once it knows how the story ends.
So the journal fills up with reasonable-sounding entries, and the one thing that would have been worth recording, your actual state at the moment you clicked, is the thing that never makes it in.
Echo is on the Chrome Web Store and is free to install. It syncs into your SubTrades account, so create one first if you have not already.
Echo exists because of the patterns below. Every one of them is decided in the moment and explained away afterwards, which is exactly the gap an in-trade tag closes.
Echo is a free Chrome extension from SubTrades. While a trade is open, you click the icon or press a keyboard shortcut and tag what you are feeling and seeing. Those tags sync to your SubTrades journal and are matched to the actual trade when your tradebook is imported, so the note and the trade end up joined without you doing any matching yourself.
Because by the end of the day the record is a reconstruction rather than a memory. Once you know how the trade ended, hindsight reshapes the story: a loss acquires a tidy explanation, and the actual reason you clicked buy, which was often an urge rather than a signal, gets edited out. Tagging while the position is open captures the state before the outcome is known and before you have had time to rationalise it.
It is built to take a second or two. One click or one keyboard shortcut, a tag, and you are back. Anything that required real typing during a live position would not get used, which is the reason most in-trade journaling fails.
Echo records what you tagged and when. When your tradebook is imported, whether by CSV upload or automatic broker sync, SubTrades matches those timestamped tags to the trades that were open at the time. You do not link them by hand.
The extension itself is free to install from the Chrome Web Store. It syncs into your SubTrades journal, and Echo is included with Pro, which starts with a free first month and no card.
The tags you choose and their timestamps, so they can be matched to your trades. It does not read your broker credentials, place orders, or touch your funds. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
Free to start, no card required. Install Echo and your next session records itself honestly.
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