The journal that measures the trader, not the P&L — every trade held against the model you define, the pattern reflected back without a grade.
Most journals log what happened. Vigil studies whether you were the trader you said you'd be. You write the model; the journal holds every trade against it and reflects the pattern back — your discipline, your drift, your edge — without grading you and without telling you what to do. It asks more of you than a spreadsheet. It's built for traders willing to put the work in.
Before the journal can hold you to anything, you set the standard yourself — a nine-dimension charter that is your edge, in your own words.
Example — your signal basis "Cross-index divergence between the correlated index futures, taken only when price reclaims and holds back through the prior imbalance. The divergence sets the bias; the reclaim confirms the entry."
An AI study reads every logged trade against your own charter and reports, condition by condition, where you held the line and where you drifted — in plain counts, never grades or advice.
Example — a finding "Entry trigger, retrace into the reclaimed zone: marked held on 44 trades, partial on 25, missed on 13. Entry-fill location was the most consistently recorded criterion in the sample — partiality indicates some entries were placed on the break rather than the retrace."
Yes. At its core, Vigil is a futures trading journal built for ES, NQ, MES and MNQ traders. It logs every trade, tracks your daily readiness, and measures what you did against the model you defined.
Yes. Vigil imports Tradovate CSVs and runs alongside your TradingView charts, so it fits how most funded and prop-firm futures traders already work. Trades are logged against your own rules, not a generic template.
Most journals grade you on profit and loss. Hermetic Trader measures every trade against the model you define and reflects back where you held your discipline and where you drifted. It shows the pattern; it never grades you.
"Most traders fail not because they lack signals, but because they lack the discipline to follow them. Hermetic Trader is built for the half of trading that lives between the ears."