What is a Bybit trading journal?
A Bybit trading journal is the log of every position you've opened and closed on Bybit, organized so you can judge your trading instead of guessing at it. Most people keep one in a spreadsheet, which works until you trade inverse contracts and the coin-denominated funding makes the arithmetic ugly.
TMM keeps the log for you. One read-only connection and your spot, linear, and inverse history loads on its own, then stays current.
How TMM auto-imports your Bybit trades
You create a read-only API key on Bybit and paste it into TMM. Setup runs like this:
- •Sign in to Bybit and go to Account & Security → API.
- •Create a new key. Choose a System-generated key and set permissions to Read-Only.
- •Under read access, enable reading for Orders / Positions and your wallet so trade and balance data come through. Leave trade execution and withdrawals off.
- •Copy the API Key and API Secret (the secret shows once).
- •Paste both into TMM and connect.
What you can track
Every Bybit market lands in the journal: spot pairs, USDT perpetual and linear futures, and the inverse perpetuals that margin and settle in the underlying coin. On both perp types TMM records each funding payment as it's charged. For inverse, where funding and PnL are denominated in BTC or ETH rather than dollars, that bookkeeping is exactly the part a manual journal tends to fumble.
What you see per trade and per account:
- •Net PnL after funding and fees, converted so linear and inverse results sit side by side
- •Win rate with average win against average loss
- •R-multiple per position, so you know whether your risk is paying off
- •Equity curve spanning spot, linear, and inverse together
- •Per-symbol breakdown so your inverse BTCUSD stats stay separate from your USDT alts
| Manual spreadsheet | TMM | |
|---|---|---|
| Import | CSV export, re-paste monthly | ✅ Read-only API, auto-synced |
| Inverse funding | ⚠️ Coin-denominated math by hand | ✅ Settled in base coin, converted |
| Spot + linear + inverse | Three disconnected exports | ✅ One combined timeline |
| Net PnL | ⚠️ Gross number eyeballed at exit | ✅ Net after funding and fees |
| Per-symbol stats | Manual pivot tables | ✅ Automatic breakdown |
Why traders use TMM for Bybit
The reason inverse traders show up is funding-true PnL. A spreadsheet treats a coin-margined trade as if entry and exit were the whole story; TMM settles the funding paid or received in the base coin and reports the real net, so your curve matches your wallet. Beyond that:
- •The AI coach reviews your Bybit history and flags the habits dragging your edge down, like oversizing inverse positions after a win streak.
- •Your public profile is exchange-verified — the numbers are pulled from actual fills, so leaderboard standing reflects real trading.
- •You're in good company with 170,000+ traders running journals on TMM.
- •The free tier covers the journal itself, with Pro layering on heavier analytics when you need them.