Chamindu Tharaka
Developer & Trader
"I logged trades on a spreadsheet for two years until it broke. That was the moment I stopped complaining and started building."
Three traders. One obsession. Zero blind spots.
Our Story
We all started the same way — downloading MT4, blowing the first account in a month, opening another one. For years, the three of us traded independently, made the same mistakes, and logged trades in spreadsheets that told us nothing useful. We were three retail traders in Sri Lanka trying to compete in a market built for institutional players with Reuters terminals and Bloomberg subscriptions.
The idea for Forex Compass came out of one bad London session in late 2024. We were comparing notes and realised we had all made the same emotional mistake — the same overtrading pattern, the same revenge trading spiral — and none of our "systems" had flagged it. The data was there. We just had no tool to surface it. So we decided to build one.
We're not a startup chasing an exit. Most subscription revenue goes straight back into building the next feature. We keep our costs tight, our code open (where it makes sense), and our community in the room when we make decisions. We're not building a product for traders. We're building a company of traders.
The Team
The three behind the compass
Retail traders first. Developers and designers second.
Pasindu Perera
Founder, Trader & Developer
"6+ years of trading taught me that data is everything — and that most traders are flying blind. That's what we're fixing."
KT Tharindu
Developer & Trader
"7 years trading. Software engineer by profession. I take the ideas and turn them into something real — one commit at a time."
How We Got Here
Four moments that changed the direction
Early 2023
Three separate accounts. Three identical mistakes.
We were all trading independently without knowing each other. All three of us overtraded the NFP release and blew our weekly risk limits in the same hour. We didn't know it yet, but we were already working on the same problem.
Mid 2024
The spreadsheet breaks.
After 18 months of logging trades in Google Sheets, Chamindu's spreadsheet hit 4,000 rows and became too slow to open. That was the moment we stopped asking "why doesn't something like this exist" and started asking "how do we build it?"
Late 2024
The decision that changed everything.
We could have taken the startup route — raised money, hired fast, optimised for growth. We chose not to. We structured the company so our mandate is the community, not shareholders. It was the most important decision we made — and we made it in a WhatsApp chat at 2am.
June 2026
Launch day.
The Trading Journal goes live. Not perfect — no launch ever is — but real, useful, and built by people who use it themselves. Everything we learned from two years of bad trades goes into the thing we're handing you.
What We Stand For
The principles we won't compromise on
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Community First
Every product decision is informed by traders in our community. We don't build in a vacuum — we build in a group chat where you're also a member.
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Reinvestment First
Most subscription revenue goes back into development, broker support, data quality, and community-requested features. The product gets better because members fund the roadmap directly.
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Full Transparency
We publish our financials. We explain every pricing decision. If we raise prices, you'll know why two months before it happens — not two minutes.
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Built by Traders
We use every tool we ship. If something annoys us at 9am on a Monday when NFP drops, it gets fixed before the next release. User feedback isn't a ticket — it's a WhatsApp message to one of us.
Ready to trade with clarity?
The journal launches June 6th. Be there from day one.
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