Comparison
LAYER 0 vs Edgewonk: A Tiltmeter Tells You. A Firewall Stops You.
Edgewonk has a real following among serious retail traders, and for good reason — the analytics are deep and the pricing is unusually simple. It also isn't trying to do what LAYER 0 does, and knowing exactly where that line sits matters before you buy either one.
What Edgewonk Actually Is
Edgewonk is a single-tier trading journal — no feature paywall, no monthly plan, one price for unlimited journals, trades, and broker accounts across forex, futures, stocks, crypto, CFDs, and options. Under its current offer that price is $197 billed every 16 months (effectively about $148/year), not a straight annual charge. Its signature feature is the Tiltmeter: a score that tracks how often you deviated from your own stated rules across a stretch of trades. In January 2026 it added Edge Finder AI, which reads your trade history and emails a weekly report flagging patterns you might have missed.
That's a genuinely useful diagnostic. It's also entirely retrospective — the Tiltmeter tells you that you tilted on Tuesday. It has no mechanism for Wednesday morning.
| Feature | LAYER 0 | Edgewonk |
|---|---|---|
| Runs before or after the trade | Before — mandatory pre-trade gate | After — journal + analytics only |
| Rule-break scoring | Live verdict per session (app) | Tiltmeter — retrospective, over a trade range |
| Post-loss cooldown | Yes — 20-min enforced lockout (app) | No |
| Discipline streak (separate from P&L) | Yes (app) | No |
| AI pattern detection | No | Yes — Edge Finder AI, weekly email report |
| Best/worst exit analysis | No (not its purpose) | Yes — Best Exit Analysis |
| Commitment Contract | Optional — stake money on your own discipline (app) | No |
| Growth Path | Yes — 5 staged levels, Gambler to Casino Owner, gated on process not P&L (app) | No |
| Broker/account limits | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Markets supported | Any (self-reported) | Forex, futures, stocks, crypto, CFD, options |
| Pricing model | Free to start, $9.99/mo | $197 per 16 months (~$148/yr), no monthly option |
| Refund window | Cancel anytime | 14-day money-back guarantee |
Why This Isn't Really a Head-to-Head
A Tiltmeter and a firewall are answering different questions. One says: “here's how often, over the last N trades, you broke your own rules.” The other says: “here's whether you're in a state to trade right now, before you click.” The first is useful for spotting a slow leak over weeks. The second is the only one that can stop tonight's specific bad trade, because it runs before the trade exists.
Traders who already have reasonably solid discipline and want sharper post-hoc analytics — where their edge is strongest, which setups bleed money on exit — get real value from Edgewonk's depth. Traders whose problem is specifically that they know the rule and break it anyway need something that intervenes earlier than a monthly score can. Why LAYER 0 is built as two systems, not one →
Who Each One Fits
- +Want a scorecard for a review you already do weekly — Edgewonk
- +Want the one-payment $197/16-month price and don't need a trial — Edgewonk
- +Need something to physically stop you before the next click — LAYER 0
- +Want a post-loss cooldown, not just a note that a loss happened — LAYER 0
- +Want to stake real money on following your own rules — LAYER 0
Plenty of traders end up running both — Edgewonk for the post-trade edge analysis, LAYER 0 for the moment right before the next session opens. They don't compete for the same job.
Stop the trade before it starts — free to start
Pre-Trade Firewall Gate, Daily Close, The Week Close, Post-Loss Lockout, Pattern & P&L Insights, Discipline Score, Streak Tracker. Free to start, $9.99/mo.
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Edgewonk pricing and features verified against edgewonk.com, August 2026.