What is a Kraken trading journal?
A Kraken trading journal is a record of every trade you place on Kraken, organized so you can measure performance instead of guessing at it. Kraken's own interface shows you balances and a flat order history, but it won't tell you your win-rate on BTC longs, your average R-multiple, or how much funding quietly ate into your Kraken Futures gains over a month.
A journal closes that gap. TMM builds yours automatically from your account data, so the log stays current without you logging anything by hand.
How TMM auto-imports your Kraken trades
Connect once with a read-only API key and TMM keeps your journal in sync from then on. Kraken splits spot and derivatives across two separate platforms, so each market has its own key: you create a spot key on pro.kraken.com and a separate Kraken Futures key on futures.kraken.com. Add one or both — TMM combines them into a single journal.
- •For spot, open Settings → API on pro.kraken.com and choose Add key.
- •Enable only the read-only permissions: Query Funds, Query Open Orders & Trades, Query Closed Orders & Trades, and Query Ledger Entries. Leave Create/Modify/Cancel Orders, Withdraw, and Transfer switched off. TMM only ever reads your history; it can't move funds.
- •For futures, create a separate key on futures.kraken.com — Kraken Futures is its own platform with its own API keys.
- •Copy the API Key and Private Key into TMM. Unlike some exchanges, Kraken keys have no passphrase — just two values per market.
What you can track
TMM covers both sides of Kraken: spot trades across its deep, long-established market and Kraken Futures perpetuals. For spot, you get realized PnL per coin, cost basis, and how your positions actually performed once fees were counted. For futures, you get the full leverage picture.
- •Net PnL after fees and funding — every funding payment Kraken debited or credited on your perps is included, so the number you see is the real one.
- •Win-rate by symbol, by direction, and over any date range.
- •R-multiple and average win vs. average loss, so you can see whether your winners actually pay for your losers.
- •Equity curve across Kraken spot and futures combined.
- •Per-symbol breakdown so the coins draining your account stop hiding inside an aggregate balance.
| Manual spreadsheet | TMM journal | |
|---|---|---|
| Funding tracked | ❌ Usually dropped | ✅ Every payment, per position |
| Trade import | ⚠️ CSV export + paste | ✅ Auto-sync via read-only key |
| Stays current | ❌ Always a week behind | ✅ Keeps syncing as you trade |
| Spot + futures combined | ⚠️ Separate tabs | ✅ One timeline |
| Net PnL | ⚠️ Gross only | ✅ After funding and fees |
Why traders use TMM for Kraken
Most journals stop at entry, exit, and fees. On futures that's not the real number, because funding accrues every few hours whether you're watching or not. TMM is funding-aware, so a position that looked green on Kraken's screen but bled out in funding shows up honestly in your stats.
There's an AI coach that reads your actual Kraken history and points out patterns you'd rather not admit to: the revenge trades after a loss, the coin you keep averaging down on, the hours of day where you give it all back. You can publish an exchange-verified public profile, where the numbers are backed by real API data rather than screenshots, and rank on the leaderboards. More than 170,000 traders use TMM, and the core journal is free.