Frequently asked questions

Composure is a trade journal and performance coaching platform for futures, forex, and equity traders. You log or import trades, and Composure uses AI to score your execution quality, track behavioral patterns, enforce risk guardrails, and generate weekly coaching reports — all without requiring broker login credentials.

Traders who want to build discipline and consistency — from beginners logging their first trades to full-time futures/forex traders. It is built primarily around NQ and ES futures but works for any instrument. It is a journaling and coaching tool, not a brokerage or signal service.

No. Composure works without any broker connection. You can log trades manually, import a CSV or HTML export from your platform, or install the free MT5 Expert Advisor for automatic syncing. None of these options require you to share your broker password.

MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, NinjaTrader 8, cTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeLocker, TradingView (Paper Trading), Interactive Brokers, and Bybit. Full step-by-step guides are at composure.trading/brokers.

Yes. Free accounts include 50 trade entries per month, full journal access, the complete Composure University course library, and basic statistics. Paid plans unlock AI scoring, Trade Guard, weekly coaching reports, full stats, and more.

Create a free account, complete the 2-minute onboarding (your instrument, session, and risk preference), then either log your first trade manually or import your broker history. The AI scoring and weekly report activate automatically once you have trades.

Composure is a responsive web app — it works in any modern browser on desktop, tablet, and phone, with no separate download. On mobile you can add it to your home screen for an app-like experience.

Composure supports multiple languages — switch from the globe icon in the sidebar or on the login page. English and Traditional Chinese are the most complete; other languages are still being translated.

Use the "Log Trade" button in the top nav, or Session > Add Trade. Quick mode (a few fields) is the default for beginners; Full mode captures entry/exit, stop, target, R:R, emotion, and notes. Connected brokers import trades automatically.

Once the import saves, Composure immediately analyzes your full history and shows your first personalized insights — things like your worst trading day of the week, whether your edge decays after trade #2, or a confirmed positive expectancy. From there you can jump straight to your Trading DNA, full statistics, or set up Trade Guard. You need at least 5 closed trades for insights to appear.

Yes — re-imports are safe. Duplicate trades (matching instrument, direction, entry time, and price) are automatically skipped. You'll only ever see each trade once in your journal.

Log trades manually using the New Trade form — it supports any instrument, any broker, and any time zone. You can also use the Composure CSV template. If you need a specific platform integration, email support@composure.trading.

Yes. Composure is built primarily for NQ and ES futures traders but fully supports forex pairs, crypto, commodity futures, and equity CFDs. Use any symbol name your platform uses — Composure normalises it.

Yes. Each trade entry has a notes field, post-trade review section, and screenshot upload. Screenshots are stored securely and linked to the trade permanently.

Download ComposureSync.mq5 from Settings → Security. Install it in your MT5 Experts folder, paste your API Key and Webhook URL, and enable WebRequests for the Composure domain. Every closed trade is pushed to your journal within 60 seconds — no credentials required.

For file import: make sure it's the export format from the guide at composure.trading/brokers. For the MT5 EA: confirm the EA is attached to a chart, WebRequests is enabled for the Composure domain, and your API Key + Webhook URL are pasted correctly. Auto broker sync requires the Elite plan. Still stuck? Email support@composure.trading.

The Composure Score (0–100) is a composite rating of your trading discipline. It weighs execution quality (entry timing, stop placement), rule compliance (Trade Guard adherence), consistency (trading days and patterns), and AI session review scores. A higher score means more disciplined, rule-following trading.

After you save a trade or complete a session review, Claude AI analyses your entry, exit, risk:reward, notes, and recent pattern history. It returns a 1–10 execution quality score, a behavioral tag (revenge trade, FOMO, disciplined, etc.), and a plain-language coaching note.

Every Sunday, Composure generates a personalised report summarising your week: win rate, average R, Trade Guard compliance, worst behavioral patterns, and a specific recommendation for next week. It's sent by Telegram and also available under Reports. The weekly report is a Pro/Elite feature.

Auto-Tag uses AI to suggest setup tags (e.g. breakout-retest, vwap-reclaim) and behaviour tags (e.g. fomo, moved-stop) from your trade notes, on the Trade Detail page. You review and accept them — nothing is saved without your confirmation. It requires a Trader plan or higher.

No. All AI outputs are educational summaries of your own historical trade data. They are not investment advice, trading signals, or recommendations to buy or sell any security. Composure is a journaling and coaching tool — all trading decisions are yours.

Scenario AI generates a daily market narrative for NQ/ES based on macro conditions, key levels, and recent news. It describes possible intraday scenarios (breakout, fade, chop) to help you prepare — it is labelled "simulated scenario, not a trading signal" because it cannot predict the market.

Trade Guard is Composure's behavioural risk management system. Set a daily loss cap (e.g. $500) and a maximum trades per day. If you hit either limit, Trade Guard activates a two-stage friction system: first a math challenge + 30-second cooldown, then a full session lock with Telegram notification.

Stage 1 (limit reached): A full-screen overlay appears with a math challenge and 30-second timer. You must solve it to proceed. Stage 2 (confirmed override attempt): The session locks for the rest of the trading day. You receive a Telegram notification and cannot dismiss the lock until midnight reset.

Yes. Go to Trade Guard → Settings and remove your daily loss cap and trade limit. The guardrails only activate when you've set limits. You can also configure "observation mode" to track violations without locking.

No. Trade Guard tracks trades you log in Composure — either manually or via import/EA. It does not connect to your broker to block orders at the execution level. For connected accounts it reacts the moment the broker reports a fill, and sends a push/Telegram alert.

Yes. Active challenges you set up on the Prop Firm page appear on the Trade Guard page with your remaining loss budget for today — computed from your logged trades against whichever limit binds first, the daily loss limit or the max drawdown. One click copies the challenge's daily loss limit into your Guard daily cap (it only ever tightens your cap, never loosens it). The dashboard "Can I Trade?" panel also shows the tightest active challenge's remaining budget.

A 30-day summary of what the guard actually did for you: how many tilt trades (revenge re-entries, size escalations) were flagged, the realized dollar cost of those trades, how many warnings fired, and how many days ended with warnings but no breach. Every number comes from your own logged trades and guard events. The single "avoided loss" figure is explicitly labeled an estimate, based on your own average tilt-day loss — never a made-up projection.

Trade Guard is a Pro feature (also included on Elite).

A self-serve tool that mirrors trades between YOUR OWN connected accounts — for example from one account to one or more of your other accounts — with risk normalisation (fixed USD, % of balance, multiplier, mirror, fixed lot, or balance ratio).

No. Composure does not manage money for you and there is no managed-account service. Copy trading is a tool you operate between your own accounts; all decisions and risk settings are yours.

Go to Trade Copier, connect a source and destination account, set the risk model and limits, and validate in dry-run first. Going fully live is enabled per account once the setup checks out.

Copy trading is available on any paid plan (Trader, Pro, or Elite).

ICT (Inner Circle Trader) is a popular set of "smart money concepts" — reading price through market structure (BOS/CHoCH), fair value gaps, order blocks, liquidity, displacement, and CISD. Yes: Composure's Strategy Backtester is built on these blocks — you pick an ICT trigger, set your stop and reward, backtest it on historical bars, and can save it as a live alert that pushes when it fires. It is a study/journaling tool, not a signal service or trading advice.

A backtester for ICT-style strategies — pick a trigger (market structure / fair value gap / CISD / displacement), set your stop distance and reward multiple, and test it over historical bars to see win rate, expectancy, and profit factor. It is a Pro feature.

Yes. In the Strategy Backtester, save a strategy as a live alert. Composure evaluates it on fresh bars with the same engine as the backtest and, when it fires on the latest closed bar, sends you a push notification (and an optional webhook to Discord/Telegram/your own bot).

Pattern Lab (More > Tools & Challenges > Pattern Lab) scans up to 10 years of price history to find the segments most similar to a query pattern, then shows how price moved after each of those segments. There are three modes: "Current chart" uses the most recent bars as the pattern and projects the analogs forward from the current price; "Draw a pattern" lets you sketch a price shape by hand and searches the full history for segments that look like it; "Auto-detect" scans the full history for textbook chart patterns (double tops and bottoms, head & shoulders, triangles, wedges), overlays recent ones on the chart, and shows how each pattern type played out in that market's past. When you draw a pattern you can also "Find markets matching now" — one scan sweeps every platform future, FX cross, metal, energy, and ~500 US stocks (on daily bars) and ranks which markets whose CURRENT recent shape most resembles your sketch right now (a live cross-market scan, not historical analogs); it counts as one scan from your daily quota. Timeframes range from 1min and 5min up to weekly (intraday history is limited by the data source: 1min ≈ 7 days, 5min ≈ 60 days). It works on the 18 built-in futures/FX/crypto symbols plus US stocks and ETFs (any Yahoo Finance ticker). Important: results are historical analogs and rule-based geometry for context and education — not predictions and not trading advice.

SAGE (More > Community & Intel > SAGE) is Composure's signal agent — an automated AI that watches the cross-asset scanner and publishes a short post ONLY when multiple independent signals converge on the same instrument, timeframe, and direction (for example a near-breakout pattern + an RSI divergence + a support trendline all pointing the same way). Each post shows the converging signals, a trend-strength score, and an entry/stop/target reference, with a mini chart. Important: SAGE posts are AI-generated observations, NOT calls from an analyst or from Composure's founder, and they are educational only — not financial advice (every card is labelled as such). It uses the Composure logo as its avatar so it is clearly a Composure automation, not a human.

Free accounts get 5 scans per day (current-chart, hand-drawn, and auto-detect scans all share the same quota). Any paid plan (Trader and above) has unlimited scans. The "Live scan" tab (see below) is separate and does not use this quota.

The "Live scan" tab in Pattern Lab is a cross-asset market scanner: Composure pre-scans the whole universe on a schedule (platform futures, FX crosses, metals, energy, crypto, and ~500 US stocks) across four timeframes (1H, 4H, daily, weekly) and serves the results instantly with an "Updated Xm ago" freshness stamp — you do not wait for a scan to run. It has seven sub-scanners: Patterns (classic chart patterns with forming / near-breakout / confirmed status), Trendlines (support/resistance lines with 3+ touches and their age), Divergences (RSI, MACD, OBV, and Stochastic RSI — regular and hidden, with the indicator drawn under each result), Candlesticks (engulfing, hammer, shooting star, doji on the last bar), Pivots (floor pivot points S1-R3 nearest to price), Fibonacci (retracements of the recent swing nearest to price), OTE (price inside the 61.8-79% optimal-trade-entry retracement of the last major swing), FVG (unmitigated fair-value gaps), Order Blocks, IFVG (inverted FVGs), CISD (change in state of delivery), VWAP (anchored VWAP being tested), Volume (spikes vs the 20-bar average), and 52W High/Low (instruments at or near their 52-week extremes). Every result card shows a mini chart with the signal geometry drawn on it; filter by sub-scanner, timeframe, and asset class, and click any card to open that instrument on the full chart, where toggleable layers (patterns, trendlines, pivots, Fib, FVG, order blocks, IFVG, CISD) plus stackable indicator panes (RSI, Stoch RSI, MACD, ADX) let you show only what you want. It is a market-scanning study tool for finding what looks interesting right now — not predictions, signals, or trading advice.

Market Pulse (the first Pattern Lab tab) is a market-wide breadth thermometer — your "hunting ground for today" overview. Because Composure snapshots every instrument's trend score, RSI, and EMA position per timeframe, it aggregates the whole universe into a single −100..+100 breadth read of how the market is leaning right now (strongly risk-on through strongly risk-off), with the bull/neutral/bear split, average RSI, and the share of instruments above their EMA. A per-asset-class strip shows where the action is (e.g. crypto leaning up while metals lean down), and three lists surface the day's top gainers, top losers, and strongest ADX-confirmed trends — click any to open it on the chart. Pick the timeframe (1H/4H/1D/1W). It is scanner-derived market context for orientation — educational only, not a signal or trading advice.

Smart Setups (a Pattern Lab tab) is the deterministic, always-fresh companion to SAGE. Where SAGE picks only the strongest few multi-signal confluences to write AI posts about, Smart Setups shows EVERY qualifying confluence as a live card grid — grouped from the same pre-scanned detections, with zero AI involved. Each card shows the converging named signals, a confluence score (Setup x/10), the trend strength, a nature tag — Continuation (trend-aligned continuation), Reversal (reversal structure against the prior move), or Exhaustion (a stretched move with momentum diverging) — and an entry/stop/target reference. Filter by timeframe, asset class, direction, and nature; click any card to open that instrument on the full auto-detect chart. It is a rule-based screening tool for surfacing where multiple signals line up right now — not predictions, signals, or trading advice.

They are two more Pattern Lab tabs built on the same scheduled scan (so results are instant and free, and they do not use your daily scan quota). "Trend scanner" is a market-wide trend table: for a chosen timeframe (1H/4H/daily/weekly) it shows every instrument's composite trend score from −100 (strong down) to +100 (strong up) — derived from price-regression slope, EMA alignment, +DI/−DI dominance, and ADX strength — alongside RSI, ADX, momentum, % change, volume ratio, and whether price is above/below its EMA. Sort by any column and filter by asset class to see what the whole market is leaning toward at a glance. "Strategy maker" is a no-code screener: stack indicator conditions that must all hold at once (for example ADX > 25 AND RSI > 50 AND price above EMA) and get the live list of instruments that match on your chosen timeframe, with one-click presets for common playbooks (strong uptrend, oversold bounce, momentum + volume). Click any row in either tab to open that instrument on the full auto-detect chart. Both are study/screening tools computed from indicator values — not predictions, signals, or trading advice.

Free (50 entries/month, journal, TradingView charts, trade replay, University, basic stats, 5 Pattern Lab scans/day). Trader (200 entries/month, AI journal scoring, Auto-Tag, copy trading, unlimited Pattern Lab). Pro (500 entries/month, full statistics, Trade Guard, weekly AI report, strategy backtester, Scenario AI, prop-firm mode). Elite (unlimited entries, automatic broker sync, mentor mode, everything in Pro). See the Pricing page for current prices.

Any paid plan starts with a 30-day trial for $1. Your card is charged $1 immediately to verify it is valid. On Day 31, you are charged the regular monthly fee. Cancel before Day 30 and your card is not charged the monthly fee — you keep access until the trial ends.

Yes. Cancel with one click from Settings → Billing. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period. Your journal data stays on the Free plan permanently after cancellation.

All journal entries, statistics, playbooks, and settings are preserved. Access to paid features (AI scoring, Trade Guard, weekly reports, full stats) pauses. Your data is never deleted when you downgrade.

Yes. Annual billing is available and saves roughly 2 months compared to monthly. Switch to annual from Settings → Billing or on the Pricing page.

Payments are processed securely by Paddle, our payment provider. Composure never sees or stores your full card details. Manage your subscription anytime from Settings → Billing.

Refunds are handled case by case — email support@composure.trading with your account email and details, and the team will help. The $1 trial means you can evaluate a paid plan for 30 days before the first full charge.

Yes. Share your invite link from the Dashboard or Settings. Anyone who joins via your link gets an extended trial, and you earn rewards for every paying subscriber you refer. There is no cap on referral rewards.

Connect Telegram in Settings → Notifications. Once linked, Trade Guard locks, the weekly report, and strategy alerts can be delivered to your Telegram.

In Settings → Notifications, enable Web Push and allow notifications when your browser asks. You'll then get real-time Trade Guard and strategy alerts even when the tab isn't focused.

The weekly report needs a minimum number of trades that week and a Pro/Elite plan. Also check that Telegram is connected (Settings → Notifications). The report is always available under Reports too. Still missing? Email support@composure.trading.

Use "Forgot password?" on the login page to reset by email. To change it while logged in, go to Settings → Security.

Update your profile in Settings. For email-address changes that don't stick, email support@composure.trading from your current address.

Yes. Use the Export option in the journal/stats area to download your trades. Your data is yours.

Yes. Journal, Statistics, and Export support filtering by account (multi-select, plus "all" and "unassigned"), so you can view each prop/live/demo account separately or combined.

First check your plan includes that feature (e.g. AI scoring needs Trader+, Trade Guard needs Pro+). Reload the page. If it still fails, email support@composure.trading with what you clicked and any error you saw.

Yes. Your journal is private by default — only you can see your trades. Row-level security at the database layer means only your authenticated session can read your data. Even the Composure team cannot read your journal entries.

No. We do not sell, share, or monetise your personal data or trade history. The only third-party services that process your data are Supabase (database), Anthropic (AI scoring via their API), and Paddle (payment processing).

Go to Settings → Security → Danger Zone. Submitting the deletion form sends a confirmation email. Your account and data are not deleted immediately — a team member processes the request after you confirm via email. If you change your mind, ignore the email.