Pass the eval. Survive the cycle. Keep the funded account.
See how much drawdown room each synced prop account has left, how close you are to the profit target and the next payout — and review every trade in R. The trading journal built around how prop-firm traders actually run their accounts.
Built for prop-firm survival
The three things that decide whether you keep the account.
Know how close you are to liquidation
Your drawdown floor and the room left above it, from your broker's own risk settings (cash balance — open P&L isn't included), and an email when an account's room drops under 25%. Stop finding out you got cut after the fact.
Trade your cycle, not just your day
Eval, funded, blown, cashed out — tracked per account. Profit target, minimum trading days, the consistency rule and the days until your next payout window, from your firm's published rules — filled in by themselves for synced Lucid, Tradeify and Topstep Combine accounts. Badges when you hit a target or string green days together.
All your prop accounts on one page
Five Apex evals plus a personal account isn't a portfolio in most journals. Here it is: the combined cash balance and P&L of your synced prop accounts, this year's payouts in one number, how many are in eval or funded, and each account's drawdown room.
What's inside
Built for the trader who wants the truth.
Drawdown, not surprise
For accounts synced from Tradovate, your firm's drawdown rule comes straight from the broker and sits under your equity curve. Watch the floor rise with each new high and your room shrink with each closed loss — and know your room before the next trade. Based on the cash balance; open P&L isn't included.
- ▸Drawdown floor and remaining room from your cash balance (open P&L not included)
- ▸Equity curve with your firm's liquidation line drawn underneath
- ▸Day by day: how much of your drawdown each session used
- ▸An email when an account’s remaining drawdown drops under 25% — once per session
Every account, its own story
Prop traders run five accounts; your journal should know it. One list shows every account with its balance, P&L against the starting balance and drawdown status — filter by prop firm or personal, edit any account right from the list, and open one for its own equity curve, daily P&L and summary.
- ▸Evals, funded and personal accounts in one view — Apex, Lucid, Tradeify, Topstep and other prop firms
- ▸Every prop account — synced or manual — shows its cycle: profit target, trading days, consistency rule and next payout window, with milestone badges. Log payouts on the account page
- ▸Per-account equity curve, daily P&L bars, heatmap, summary
- ▸Account filter persists across pages — pick once, scope every view
- ▸Finished an eval? Archive it — its history stays and the slot on your plan is free again
Trade entry that doesn't fight you
Log a trade in seconds from the keyboard. Press N anywhere — account, symbol and size come from your last trade.
- ▸Suggests the setup, tags and broken rules from your playbook as you type — on every plan
- ▸R-multiple and net P&L preview as you type
- ▸Symbol picker covering NQ / ES / MNQ / MES / GC / MGC, plus a free-text fallback for any other contract
- ▸A confluence checklist per setup, ticked as you log — and a dashboard view of whether more ticks meant better trades
- ▸Mood / energy emoji buttons — one tap each
- ▸Save & new to log a run of past trades in a row
Your own chart, on every trade
Paste the chart you traded from — a screenshot or a TradingView snapshot link — and it sits on the trade page where you review the trade. Your indicators, your levels, your drawings: the chart you actually saw.
- ▸Paste anywhere on the trade page (Cmd/Ctrl+V), drop a file, or paste a TradingView snapshot link
- ▸Up to six screenshots per trade — entry, management, exit, the higher timeframe
- ▸In the trade form the AI reads a pasted screenshot and fills in symbol, side, size, prices and times for you to check — 20 readings a month on Free
- ▸Shown only to you; deleting a trade deletes its screenshots
A coach that works from your numbers
A morning brief by email before the session, a review of every closed trade and an end-of-day review — all built from your own trades. On Free the coach writes by rules; on Trader and Pro the AI writes it.
- ▸Morning brief at a time you pick (default 7:30 New York): yesterday, this week’s patterns and a question for the day
- ▸Post-trade review: verdict, score, lesson, behavioral flags
- ▸End-of-day review: the day’s result and one pattern to work on tomorrow
- ▸Privacy mode, on by default: your stats go to the AI in R and percentages, without dollar amounts
- ▸Never blocked: if the AI is unavailable or the month’s AI budget is used, you get the rule-based version
Analytics that find the leak
One dashboard, from today’s numbers to the deep dive: P&L by weekday and hour, how your R-multiples spread, how you trade after a loss, whether bigger size pays, and what holding to a fixed R would have made.
- ▸Equity curve with your max drawdown, its longest stretch and your deepest drawdowns
- ▸Expectancy in R per setup, shown once there are enough trades to mean something
- ▸P&L calendar, how often winners came back to break-even, and which contract pays you
- ▸Rules with an adherence rate — across all your accounts or per account
- ▸Annualised Sharpe ratio on the dashboard and per account — risk-adjusted performance you can compare across periods
- ▸Click a setup, a calendar day or a symbol to see the trades behind it
Connected to your broker, not your spreadsheet
Connect Tradovate once and your trades arrive by themselves — today's within minutes, older ones from any date you pick. NinjaTrader prop accounts at Apex, Lucid, Tradeify and other firms connect the same way, each login on its own. Trading at Topstep? Connect TopstepX with your API key and your Combine and Express Funded trades sync the same way. Anything else: upload a Tradovate or TopstepX export, or a CSV / Excel file in our template.
- ▸Closed trades sync within minutes, with commissions and your initial stop — no manual export
- ▸Several prop-firm logins, each kept separate
- ▸R from your original stop — even if you dragged it to break-even (Tradovate sync)
- ▸Log a trade by hand mid-session; when the broker copy arrives, they become one trade
- ▸File upload for Tradovate and TopstepX exports, and TradingView alerts straight into your journal
Integrations
Works with your trading platforms, not against them.
Connect Tradovate, NinjaTrader prop accounts and TopstepX, or upload exports from Tradovate and TopstepX.
LiveSign in once — trades, accounts and your firm's drawdown rules sync by themselves. Works for Tradovate accounts and NinjaTrader prop accounts at Apex, Lucid, Tradeify and other firms.
Automatic sync and file upload — available today
Prop: synced · Brokerage: CSVNinjaTrader prop accounts at Apex, Lucid, Tradeify and other firms sync automatically — connect them under Tradovate. NinjaTrader Brokerage accounts: upload your trades as a CSV in our template for now; direct sync is planned.
Official NinjaTrader vendor
Prop accounts: automatic sync · Brokerage accounts: CSV upload
TopstepX
LiveConnect your Topstep login with a TopstepX API key — trades from your Combines, Express Funded and Practice accounts sync by themselves, and each Combine gets Topstep's rules from its account name. Live Funded accounts: upload the TopstepX export.
Automatic sync and file upload — the API key needs TopstepX API access, billed by ProjectX
CSV / Excel
LiveUpload a Tradovate or TopstepX export, or any trades in our CSV template. The format is recognised automatically, and importing the same file twice won't double your trades.
LiveSend TradingView alerts into your journal as open trades — add the exit when you're done. No broker connection needed.
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