ብርሀና Birhana — the trading journal that tells the truth

ብርሀና · THE JOURNAL, REBORN FOR TRADERS

Inspired by the ancient ብርሀና, where history was preserved for generations. Record your trades, preserve your wisdom, and build your legacy.

Open now · Free forever plan · No credit card · Nothing to install
ብርሀና የነጋዴው ማስታወሻ ነጋዴ ቻርቱን ያነባል፤ ጆርናሉ ግን ራሱን ያስተምረዋል። ትርፍ ይመጣል ይሄዳል፤ ትምህርት ግን ይቀራል። እያንዳንዱ ግብይት ትምህርት ነው፤ ጆርናል ደግሞ ትውስታው ነው። ጥሩ ነጋዴ ገበያን ብቻ አያውቅም፤ ራሱንም ያውቃል። ✦ ✦ ✦ ጨለማው ይገፈፋል · ብርሃን ይወጣል — በብራና እንደተጻፈ · as it was written on brana —
ORIGINAL ARTWORK · AFTER THE BRANA MANUSCRIPTS OF ETHIOPIA
STEP INSIDE

This is what the truth looks like.

Real screens. Real red days — including what you'd rather not see.

Open the journal ↓
Copy-trade aware — 15 accounts, 1 decision0–100 conviction that knows how you feelChecklists that grade rule-followingNo-trade days count tooProp tracker — real ROI on eval feesBacktest mode with R-multiple statsPayout tracking — the money that's real
STEP INSIDE

This is what the truth looks like.

Real screens. Real red days — including what you'd rather not see.

birhana.net · Dashboard
Birhana dashboard — monthly calendar with grades, blown money counted, weekday P&L
One month, one screen — grades, no-trade days, and the 💀 blown money most journals hide.
Journal — graded, honest
Journal — every trade graded with emotions, R and multi-account P&L, no-trade days honored
Every trade graded A–S with emotions, R and the account it hit — even sat-out days get a row.
Analytics — your edge, in ink
Analytics — discipline priced in dollars, costliest habit named, equity curve
Discipline priced in dollars — your costliest habit named, your curve unflattered.
Checklists — rules priced in dollars
Entry model checklists — rule adherence vs win rate, P&L by model
Your entry models with proof: follow the rules, the win rate answers.
Prop Tracker — fees vs truth
Prop tracker — total invested, payouts, net cash, burned on fails
Fees in, payouts out, net cash — the prop game priced like a business.
One month, one screen — every grade, every no-trade day, and the 💀 blown money most journals hide. Every trade graded A–S with emotions, R and the account it hit. Even the days you sat out get a row. Discipline priced in dollars — your costliest habit named, your best weekday found, your curve unflattered. Your entry models with proof: follow the rules and the win rate answers. Skip one and the P&L tells on you. Fees in, payouts out, net cash — the prop game finally priced like the business it is.
EVERYWHERE YOU TRADE
One Journal.
Seamlessly Synced.

One Journal, Any Device.

የትም ሁን — open ብርሀና on anything with a browser. Same entries, same grades, same honesty, always in sync.

THE WHOLE RITUAL

Three steps to a journal that tells the truth.

No course. No 40-tab spreadsheet. Gashe keeps it simple — the way forty years of charts taught him.

01

Bring your trades

Notion in one tap — your whole database becomes an account. MT5 syncs your fills. CSV drops in. The journal fills itself.

02

Read the truth

Rule-adherence priced in dollars. Your costliest habit, named. Blown accounts counted — not hidden. Nothing flattered.

03

Fix one thing

Gashe's weekly review points at a single change. The referee guards it live — before the next trade, not after.

📜
Notion → ብርሀና0 trades
MT5 · FundedNextsynced ✓
Columns detectednothing retyped
Your history, on the journal — in one tap.
✅ Every rule checked+$919 · 40% WR
⚠️ One rule skipped−$3,668 · 20%
Costliest habit"Ignored plan"
Blown moneycounted 💀
The journal does not flatter. That's the point.
🛡️
This week's gradeB → one fix
The fixno entries first 15 min
Refereewatching live ✓
One change a week. That's how edges are built.
LIVE FROM THE FLOOR

Watch the journal write itself.

Trades land, grade themselves, and face the truth in real time — wins, losses, blown money, and the days you wisely sat out.

birhana.net/journal
PAIRMODELRGRADEP&LTIME
JOURNAL IS LIVEToday +$0 · 0 trades · every one accounted for
THE LINE DOESN'T LIE

Every account tells one story.

Keep going — and watch the month Birhana was built to end.

REVENGE MONTH · −$1,860 FIRST MONTH ON BIRHANA · +$2,140
0%
of traders lose money.
Most never learn why.
1 tap
logs one decision across
every account you copy-trade.
0 days
of full access, free.
No card. No tricks.
0%
of your data is yours —
export it all, any time.
BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF

Do you actually know the last trade you took?

Not the P&L you remember — the truth. What FOMO cost you. Whether resting paid. What your bank actually saw. This is what's inside:

ብርሀና · JULY — 14 DECISIONS ACROSS 15 ACCOUNTS (183 FILLS)+$12,847
HONEST WIN RATE
64%
14 decisions — not "183 trades"
COST OF FOMO ENTRIES
−$1,240
your #1 mistake, priced
DAY AFTER SITTING OUT
+$412 avg
discipline literally pays
NET CASH (PAYOUTS−FEES)
+$1,300
the number your bank sees
WHAT'S ACTUALLY INSIDE

Gashe asks — Birhana answers.

Hover a question. The old man has been asking them for forty years.

Ask me, child of the market…

"Is my win rate even real?"

If you trade more than one account, most journals quietly multiply your stats until they're fiction. Birhana counts every decision once — one tap logs all your accounts, each with its own real P&L. Honest numbers, zero extra work.

APEX #1 · 3cAPEX #2 · 2cAPEX #3 · 2cTOPSTEP · 1c+11 more

"Why do I win calm and lose tilted?"

Slide your conviction from 0–100 — it reads your state back to you, then shows which feelings actually make you money.

"What does breaking my rules cost?"

Tick your checklist as you trade. Birhana prices your discipline — in win rate and in dollars.

90–100%
82%
50–89%
54%
<50%
31%

"Was sitting out smart — or scared?"

Log the days you didn't trade and why. Birhana tells you which ones were discipline, which were avoidance, and what each did to the next day.

"What's my most expensive habit?"

Every mistake you tag gets a dollar price. Streaks, drawdown, best and worst days — ranked, not hidden.

"Am I actually up — after the fees?"

Eval fees in, payouts out. Birhana shows net cash — the only number your bank agrees with — plus which accounts survive.

"Would my edge survive last year?"

Replay history day by day, grade it like live trading, and let the R-multiples answer before real money does.

COMING SOON

"What if I never typed a trade again?"

Sign in with Tradovate once — every fill lands in your journal by itself. Accounts created for you.

PRO+

"And my MT5 account?"

Connect MetaTrader 5 once on the computer, then tap Sync and your fills come in — same honesty, same analytics. Live now, with Pro+.

EVERYWHERE, ANYTIME

One journal, wherever you trade

Your broker's clock, your currency, your accounts — Birhana keeps the record in one place.

198+countries — wherever your broker is
0traders journaling every day
0trades journaled

The last two are live from the journal.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

What traders say after the truth

Written in the app, published only once the trader approves the words.

THE COMPANY ብርሀና KEEPS

Built to plug into your world.

KEEP GOING — THE CONSTELLATION FORMS

IMPORT · SIGN IN · BUILT WITH

Bring your journal in. Keep it yours.

Connect Notion and your trading database becomes a Birhana account — free on every plan. A CSV from any broker or platform drops in on Pro, columns matched for you. Sign in with Google or email. Built with Claude and GitHub.

PROP FIRMS · RULEBOOKS BUILT IN

Your firm’s rules, checked on every trade.

Pick your firm and program when you add an account. Daily-loss limits, trailing drawdown and consistency rules load with it, and the Referee checks each trade you log against them — before the firm does. E8 Markets and Alpha Capital too.

METATRADER 5 · TRADOVATE

Connect MT5 once. Tap Sync, the fills arrive.

On Pro+, link your MetaTrader 5 account from the computer — any broker’s MT5 server works — then tap Sync: entry, exit, size and P&L land in the journal, no retyping. Tradovate fills come in from its CSV export today; Tradovate auto-sync is next — join the waitlist in the app.

Names show what Birhana works with or is built with — it loads these firms’ rules and reads MT5 fills. No endorsement implied.

Ready to write it down?

Start free — no card. Upgrade the day the free walls start to hurt. Your data exports anytime, either way.

FREE
0birr
forever · no card
  • ✓20 journal trades with emotions & notes
  • ✓1 account + 1 entry-model checklist
  • ✓Full analytics — deep dive, discipline & calendar
  • ✓Notion import — bring your journal in, free
  • ✓1 backtest session · cloud sync & full export
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Enough to feel your edge forming.

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  • ✓Unlimited trades, accounts, models & backtests
  • ✓F→S trade grading & unlimited screenshots
  • ✓Copy groups — every copy-traded account in one tap
  • ✓CSV import with copy-group fan-out & dedup
  • ✓Prop tracker with payouts & net-cash ROI
Unlock Birhana Pro →

Everything the journal knows, unlocked.

👑 PRO+
3,00016% off
2,500birr/ month
2,500 birr every month
  • ✓Everything in Pro
  • ✓MT5 sync — connect once on the computer, tap Sync and your fills come in · Pro+ only
  • ✓Priority support — answered first
  • ✓Funded-account integration — tap Sync on an MT5 funded account and every fill is checked against the firm's rules FundedNextFundingPips
  • ✓👑 The Pro+ crown — a gold crown & gold frame on your name and posts in the community
  • ✓Royal gold themes & video backdrops for your share cards
  • ◷Coming soon, yours first: Market Replay · Apex via Tradovate sync Apex Trader Funding
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STRAIGHT ANSWERS

FAQ

One word: copy-trading. Other journals count your 15 copy-traded fills as 15 separate trades, inflating every stat. Birhana groups them into one decision for edge analytics while keeping every account's real P&L, drawdown and prop progress separate. It's also the only journal with discipline tracking for no-trade days and net-cash prop ROI.
Birhana means "light" in Amharic, and it echoes ብራና (brana) — the parchment manuscripts Ethiopian scribes have used for centuries to record history and faith in black and red ink. Truth, written down so it can't be rewritten. That's the spirit of this journal.
Yes — 20 journal trades on one account, with emotions, notes and full analytics, free Notion import, plus cloud sync and export. It's enough to feel your edge forming. Pro removes the caps and unlocks grading, copy groups, CSV import, unlimited screenshots and the prop tracker.
Your journal lives in your own authenticated cloud space, and one-click Export gives you a complete JSON backup anytime. No lock-in, ever. A journal belongs to its scribe.
MT5 sync is live with Pro+ on the computer — connect once in Accounts with a read-only investor password, then tap Sync whenever you want your new fills in. Your first fills come in when you connect; after that, new ones arrive when you tap Sync. Tradovate (Apex) is coming soon, not live yet — the plan is sign-in-with-Tradovate, automatic account creation and fills landing in your journal. Hit "Notify me" inside the app and you'll be first to know the moment it ships.

The elder reads his ብርሀና every morning. Your journal is waiting.

ጨለማው ይገፈፋል · ብርሃን ይወጣል

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