AlphaTrack is a self-hosted personal trading journal built with Next.js 15, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. It's designed for retail forex and futures traders who want to track their MetaTrader 5 (MT5) activity locally rather than uploading trade data to a third-party SaaS.

Trading journals are one of the most-recommended habits for serious retail traders — you can't improve edge if you can't measure it. But the popular hosted options (Tradervue, Edgewonk, TraderSync) charge monthly fees and require you to hand over your trade history. AlphaTrack takes the opposite approach: run it in Docker on your own machine, keep your data on your own disk.

The stack choices are pragmatic for a solo project:

• Next.js 15 + TypeScript — modern React with server components, fast to iterate on
• Tailwind CSS — no CSS bikeshedding, ship the UI quickly
• Docker — one-command deploy on a home server or VPS
• MT5 integration — pulls from where most retail forex volume actually happens

The topic list — trading-bot alongside trading-journal — hints that the roadmap may extend beyond passive logging into automated strategy tracking, which would be a natural fit for MT5 users who already run Expert Advisors.

Who benefits: Retail forex/futures traders who want post-trade analytics without a subscription, self-hosting enthusiasts who prefer running their own stack, and developer-traders who want a codebase they can fork and extend with custom metrics (R-multiples, session tagging, setup categorization). Also useful as a reference Next.js 15 app for anyone learning the new App Router with a real-world domain model.