Self-Hosted Trading Journal: Why Traders Run TradeTally on Their Own Server
Learn where TradeTally keeps trade data when self-hosted, what the free version includes, which software components it uses, and when a Finnhub API key is required.
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Trading Data Privacy
Security and privacy guidance for sensitive trade history, broker data, cloud services, local storage, exports, and account protection.
A Trader's Guide to Local Data Storage: Own Your Edge
A trader spends years building a usable playbook. Entries, exits, notes, screenshots, setup tags, review comments, mistakes repeated, mistakes fixed. Then one day the journaling platform changes its pricing, limits exports, shifts features behind a paywall, or sends a notice about updated terms. That's when the underlying issue
10 Best Practices for Data Security for Traders in 2026
A multi-year trading journal is more than a ledger of entries and exits. It becomes a private dataset of setups, execution habits, broker connections, position sizing decisions, mistakes, recovery patterns, and strategy IP that took real market tuition to build. If that dataset leaks, gets altered, or becomes unavailable, the
How to Safely Manage API Keys with Your Trading Journal
Discover practical guidance on securely creating, storing, and managing API keys within TradeTally’s platform. Protect your trading journal and integrations with these API key best practices.
What Does Self Hosted Mean? a Trader's Guide to Data Control
Self-hosting means running software on infrastructure you control instead of relying on a third-party cloud or SaaS provider. For a trader, that usually means the journal, analytics stack, and performance data live on a server they administer, not on someone else's managed platform.
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