Built by a trader,
for the trader who keeps breaking their own rules.
Kaxse exists because a generic trade journal wasn't enough. The strategy wasn't the bottleneck. The behaviour was.
The story
Why this product exists
Every trader I know keeps a journal. TraderVue, Tradezella, Edgewonk, a spreadsheet, sometimes a Notion page. Every one of those journals eventually answers the same question — “why did I keep losing on the same setup, the same way, the same Tuesday?” — and the answer is always behavioural.
Loss aversion. Revenge trading. Sunk cost. FOMO. Anchoring on entry price. Premature exits. Holding losers past stops. Sizing up after a winning streak. Sizing down after one loss. None of these are strategy problems. They're the same set of biases, repeatedly, across every trader in every market.
The realisation that started Kaxse: the journal can't fix this. It's the wrong layer. The post-session review tells you what you already feel. The intervention has to happen during the session, before the loss compounds — at the moment between deciding to take the trade and clicking send. That's where a coach lives. That's where a hard lock lives.
So Kaxse is the layer that runs there. Pre-session warm-up gates the trading UI behind a 5-minute ritual. A risk rules engine evaluates twelve rule types every 30 seconds against your live broker state. An AI coach reads your live positions and your written rules and intervenes in real time — naming the cognitive distortion as it happens. A vault hides your broker login behind PIN, time-delay, and reflection prompts when the daily loss rule fires. A cool-down ritual closes every session before tomorrow's warm-up unlocks.
It's the behavioural layer your journal can't be.
What Kaxse stands for
The principles that shape the product.
We never touch your broker
Kaxse is a behavioural layer, not an order-management system. We read your account state and surface violations in our UI. We never place, cancel, or close orders. The line is sharp by design.
Process over outcome
A losing trade can be A-grade. A winning trade can be D-grade. PnL is a lagging indicator; process is the actual edge. Kaxse tracks both, but the one we care about is execution quality.
Pre-decided over reactive
The version of you that's calm decides for the version that isn't. Warm-up rituals, locked playbooks, friction-step vaults — all configured when the head is clear, executed when it isn't.
Honest over flattering
The AI coach doesn't cheerlead. The journal summary names the bad trade as bad. The analytics show your morning danger zone in red. We picked traders who want hard signals over comfort.
Solo-built, ships fast
Kaxse is built by one person. That means small batches, frequent updates, direct contact with users. The downside: SOC 2 / ISO theatre is on the future-roadmap. The upside: every line of code is opinionated and the changelog is real.
Behavioural-first, AI-second
AI is a tool here, not the pitch. The product would still work — less effectively — without it. The taxonomy of cognitive distortions is the substance; the LLM is what makes it conversational.
Want to follow along?
Updates ship in small batches. The changelog is the most honest place to look.