// why-tickerscribe
Why TickerScribe
Most trading journals make you pick a side — options or stocks — and treat the other as an afterthought. TickerScribe was built around the trades that cross that line: assignments, covered calls, rolls, and the wheel. Five things it does that the others don't.
Ledger-accurate · 100% free · no card
01 // one-position
Two journals, one position
Sell a cash-secured put; when it's assigned, the shares appear in your stock journal at the right cost basis. Sell a covered call against them; when they're called away, the sale closes the loop.
Every leg lands in the journal it belongs to — linked as one wheel cycle, on a single ledger. No copying fills between tools, no reconciling two P&Ls by hand.
02 // double-entry
P&L that balances to the cent
Every trade posts to a double-entry ledger inside a transactional database. Your P&L is derived from entries that must balance — not pieced together from spreadsheet formulas that drift.
Premiums, commissions, and assignments each get their own entry, so every number on the dashboard can be traced back to the trades that produced it.
- Sell to openAAPL 165P · 1 contract+240.00
- Commissionopen + close−1.05
- Assignment100 sh @ 165.00−16,500.00
- Stock sold100 sh @ 171.00+17,100.00
every entry balances · accurate to the cent
03 // options-depth
A real options journal
Elsewhere this depth sits behind a paid tier, or options get logged as generic trades and the structure is lost. Here it's the core of the product, free.
Strategies are detected automatically from your strikes, expirations, and contract types. Roll a position and the legs chain into one history instead of scattering across your log:
Sell 180 Put
opened
+240.00 credit
Roll to 175 Put
closed + reopened
+185.00 credit
Roll to 170 Put
closed + reopened
+160.00 credit
- 30+ strategies · auto-detected
- up to 8 legs
- Greeks & IV per trade
- assignment & expiration handled
- per-leg P&L
04 // free-means-free
Free means free
pricing tiers
trade caps
cards required
trial deadlines
There's no premium version hiding a better product — the whole product is free, and the current feature set stays free. If premium features are ever introduced, what's available today remains free for everyone. Most alternatives run subscriptions, and several keep options journaling in the paid tiers — see the feature-by-feature comparisons.
05 // your-data
Your data is yours
Easy in, easy out, private in between. Every export is a 100% backup that re-imports for full restoration — plain CSV, no lock-in.
- Major brokersauto-detected on upload
- Everything elseuniversal CSV mapper
- Duplicatesflagged before saving
- Row-level securityisolated to your account
- Adsnone
- Data sellingnever
The rest is easier to see than to read
No card, no trade caps. Import your history and see your trading in one workspace in under a minute.