A couple of thoughts after two days working with TradingDiaryPro.
Initial imrpessions were good, not great. It had a number of handy views (win/loss %, expectancy, etc...) but lacked a lot of refinements, like being able to click to drill down into a chart bar, see portfolio measures like std dev, sharpe ratio, etc... It also was a bit unstable and at the moment I get a fatal error message every time I launch the app. Planning to uninstall and reinstall.
The price is right, and valuable if you're going to journal or if you don't already have an XLS built and don't care to. Otherwise, good not great.
I did happen to find a new option - WealthLabPro, which is something I've used for over a year for strategy development, but never thought of it to assess my past trades (charting my entries & exits). Turns out there's an extension (
http://www2.wealth-lab.com/WL5WIKI/Default.aspx?Page=RealTrades&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1) already built to do this, and I presume you get all the performance visualizers including performance stats, equity curve, drawdown, etc... Plus, it's very extensible with .NET coding.
Thanks for the replies, I think I've found the best answer for me.