Private trading groups with leaderboards, weekly challenges, real-time chat, and shared accountability. No follower counts. No likes. No algorithm. Just your group.
You log your trades. You review them on Sunday. The patterns are there. You vow to do better. Monday comes and you take the same FOMO entry you took last week.
The reason is simple: there's no one watching. Solo journaling rewards honesty with nothing. Discipline without accountability is just willpower, and willpower runs out by Wednesday afternoon.
A Circle is a private trading group inside Kōda. Three to twenty traders, sharing journals, competing on a live leaderboard, running weekly challenges with each other. Created with a code, joined with a code, dissolved if it stops working.
It is the opposite of public Trading Twitter. There's no followers. No likes. No algorithm pushing the loudest trader to the top. Your circle sees your numbers because you chose to share them with people you trust — or with strangers running the same prop firm eval as you.
Every Circle has a leaderboard ranked by your group's chosen metric: dollar P&L, R-multiple, win rate, total trades, or average R per trade. Top three get medals. Everyone else gets a number. Updates as soon as anyone in the group publishes a new trade.
You don't see anyone else's trade-by-trade entries unless they publish them. You see the totals. That's the line — competitive enough to keep you honest, private enough to keep you comfortable.
Anyone in the Circle can start a challenge. Trade a specific setup all week. Stay under your daily loss limit five days in a row. Hit a win rate target. The challenge tracks itself off your logged trades — no honour system, no manual marking.
When the week closes, the winner gets a trophy in the Circle's trophy case. The trophy case is the only thing in Kōda that's permanent.
Every Circle has a live chat. Supabase Realtime delivers messages instantly. Push notifications hit your phone for new activity. You can react to other members' shared trades the same way you react to a message in Slack.
Chat is for the conversation that happens around the trade — the setup that didn't quite work, the rule you broke, the win you almost gave back. The journal is the record. The chat is the room.
Solo accountability is a story you tell yourself. Group accountability is a number your friends can see. Kōda makes the number harder to lie about — yours and theirs.
Inside Kōda, tap Circles in the bottom nav. Create one with a name and a metric, share the join code with the three to twenty people you actually want in. Or join an existing Circle if you have a code. Free users get one Circle. Pro unlocks unlimited.