# How to Share Your Trading Stats Without Revealing Your P&L

> Trader Journal lets you share specific performance metrics with others without exposing your account balance or total profit. Here is how the sharing feature works.

**Tags:** sharing, privacy, statistics, app-features

**URL:** https://traderjournal.app/app-features/how-to-share-trading-stats-without-revealing-pnl

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# How to Share Your Trading Stats Without Revealing Your P&L

Sometimes you want to share trading statistics with a coach, study group, or trading partner without revealing how much money you have in your account or your total earnings. Trader Journal includes sharing controls that let you decide exactly what is visible.

## The Privacy Issue With Most Journal Apps

When you share a Myfxbook or similar public link, the default view includes account balance, total deposits, total withdrawals, and cumulative P&L in both dollar and percentage terms. Anyone with the link can see your account size and whether you are profitable in dollar terms.

This creates a situation where traders either share nothing (losing the benefit of accountability and feedback) or share everything (uncomfortable for most people).

## Trader Journal's Sharing Controls

In Trader Journal, go to **Settings → Share Profile** to access the sharing configuration. You can toggle visibility for each data type:

**Always shown when sharing:**
- Win rate
- Profit factor
- Number of trades
- Average win/loss ratio
- Equity curve (as % return, not absolute dollars)

**Optional — you control visibility:**
- Account balance (shown/hidden)
- Absolute P&L in dollars (shown/hidden)
- Individual trade P&L amounts (shown/hidden)
- Notes and tags (shown/hidden)

**Always private:**
- Your broker server name
- Your account login details
- Your API key

## Creating a Share Link

Once you configure your privacy settings, go to **Share → Generate Link**. This creates a read-only link to your selected statistics.

The link shows whoever you send it a clean statistics view with only what you have permitted to be visible.

You can generate multiple links with different privacy settings — one for a trading coach with full details, one for a study group with only process metrics.

## Use Case: Working With a Trading Coach

When sharing with a coach, you typically want:
- Full trade list (coach needs to see all trades)
- Notes and tags (coach needs to understand your reasoning)
- P&L visible (coach needs to see outcome)
- Account balance hidden (personal preference)

Configure the share with P&L visible but balance hidden. The coach sees win rate, expectancy, individual trade P&L, and your notes — everything needed for useful feedback — without knowing your account size.

## Use Case: Accountability Partner

For peer accountability with another trader:
- Show equity curve (% return, not dollars)
- Show win rate and profit factor
- Show trade count
- Hide all dollar amounts

Your partner can see whether you are improving over time without knowing the actual dollar figures. This is often enough for meaningful accountability conversations.

## Revoking Access

Any share link can be revoked from the Share Settings page. Revoked links stop working immediately. Generate a new link to share again with the same or updated settings.

This ensures you maintain control of your data even after sharing. If you shared a link with someone whose feedback was unhelpful, revoke it and they no longer have access.

## Privacy as a Default

Trader Journal's default is private. Nothing is visible to anyone until you explicitly generate a share link. This is the opposite of platforms like Myfxbook where the default is public indexing.

Your trade data, including all notes and tag labels, stays private unless you actively choose to share it. This matters because your notes may contain market analysis, strategy details, or self-reflection that you would not want publicly associated with your identity.