Axiont vs Edgewonk — quant depth meets discipline enforcement.
The short version
Edgewonkis a quant-heavy trading journal with a comprehensive tiltmeter, expectancy-driven analytics, custom statistics, and a mature following among forex and futures traders. It's a strong post-trade analysis tool.
Axiont is a prop-firm-focused journal with the same core logging plus a discipline engine that enforces your rules in the UI during the session, before the damage happens.
Head-to-head
Core journaling
Both log trades with full context — entry, exit, R-multiple, setup tag, notes, screenshots. Edgewonk's setup classification and custom-statistic system is deeper; Axiont's playbook is simpler and focused on A+ pattern stats.
MT5 integration
Edgewonk imports from MT5 via CSV and supports a wide range of platforms beyond.
Axiont ships an MT5 Expert Advisor that auto-forwards every fill and close in real time, with broker-time-zone normalization and commission auto-detection. No import step, no CSV. Axiont only supports MT5 at launch — that's the trade-off.
Tiltmeter vs discipline engine
Edgewonk's tiltmeter is a post-session diagnostic — it rates how emotional your session was and highlights tilt-prone patterns. Axiont's discipline engine is pre-session enforcement: hard daily loss caps, cool-down timers that lock the UI, third-trade veto checklists, and mandatory day off after oversized losses. Edgewonk tells you where tilt happened. Axiont tries to prevent the tilt trade from getting saved in the first place.
Customization
Edgewonk wins on customization depth — custom statistics, deep setup classification, robust filter builder. Axiont is more opinionated by design: the metrics that discipline-limited traders actually use (in-plan rate, session expectancy, setup playbook stats, streak counter) are first-class, everything else is second-class.
Pricing
Edgewonk is sold as a yearly license (typical range around $169/year) with a standalone desktop-style experience. Axiont is a monthly or yearly subscription — Basic €9/mo (yearly €7/mo), Pro €19/mo with the discipline engine (yearly €15/mo), Community €169/mo (yearly €135/mo, capped at 50 seats).
Pick Edgewonk if…
- You want the deepest quantitative analysis available in a retail journal.
- You like deep custom statistics and building your own reports.
- You trade multiple platforms and want one journal across all of them.
- You already have solid discipline and want to push further on analytics.
Pick Axiont if…
- You're on MT5 and want zero-friction sync (no CSV imports).
- Your bottleneck is discipline, not analysis — you know what to do, you just don't always do it.
- You want loss caps, veto checklists, and cool-downs enforced by the app during the session.
- You want a modern web-first product with live dashboards, not a local-install tool.
Honest gaps
Things Edgewonk does better at launch: custom statistics depth, wider platform support via CSV, mature tiltmeter. Things Axiont does better: MT5 auto-sync, hard in-UI discipline enforcement, in-plan rate as a first-class dashboard metric, live-updating web UI.