What is Recap? Automatic trade recording, explained
Reviewing your own trades is one of the highest‑leverage things a discretionary trader can do, but the tooling makes it painful: a screen recorder like OBS gives you one enormous, unstructured file per session, and finding the moment a given trade happened means scrubbing through hours of video. Most people give up.
Recap does the recording, the finding, and the labeling for you:
- It records the monitors or windows you pick, continuously, for the whole session. It runs in the background and keeps going when you minimize it to the system tray.
- A small connector for your trading platform tells Recap when you trade. It groups your fills into complete round‑trip trades — scaling in and out, flips, and partial fills included.
- The moment a trade closes, Recap cuts a clip of just that trade — from a few seconds before your entry to a few seconds after your exit — labels it with the instrument, direction, P&L (in points) and time, and adds it to a searchable library.
- You browse, filter, sort, tag, and watch your trades, with every screen you recorded replayed side‑by‑side and in sync. You can also go back and clip any moment you didn’t trade.
Recordings, clips, and trade data are stored on your machine. Recap can read trade events but has no order-placement capability.
What kind of software is this?
A single‑user desktop application for Windows. It runs on your own machine — it is not a web app, a browser extension, or a service you log into remotely, and your recordings never leave your computer.