Pass the eval. Survive the cycle. Keep the funded account.
Drawdown cushion from your broker's own risk rules, cycle-aware profit targets, payouts logged trip-by-trip — the trading journal built around how prop-firm traders actually run their accounts. Plus the trade-by-trade review every journal does, done better.
Built for prop-firm survival
The three things that decide whether you keep the account.
Know how close you are to liquidation
Trailing-DD floor and remaining cushion from your broker's risk settings, based on the cash balance (open P&L isn't included). Equity chart with the firm's enforcement line drawn underneath, drawdown-utilization heatmap by day. 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 progress, minimum trading days, payout cadence — the cycle math your prop firm uses, made visible. Milestone badges when you hit a target or stack a green streak.
All your prop accounts on one page
Five Apex evals plus a personal account isn't a portfolio in most journals. Here it is: total cash balance across every account, YTD payouts in a single number, phase breakdown, per-account cushion bars. Pick one to drill in, switch to another without losing the filter.
What's inside
Built for the trader who wants the truth.
Drawdown, not surprise
Prop-firm trailing-DD rules read from your broker and overlaid on your equity curve. See the floor moving with your peak and the cushion shrinking with every closed loss — know your room before the next trade. Based on the cash balance; open P&L isn't included.
- ▸Trailing-DD floor + remaining cushion from the cash balance (open P&L not included)
- ▸Equity curve with the firm's enforcement line drawn underneath
- ▸Drawdown-utilization heatmap — spot the blow-up patterns
- ▸Auto-liquidation history surfaced, so 'why did I get cut?' has an answer
Every account, its own story
Prop traders run five accounts; your journal should know it. One overview groups every account by broker connection with cash balance, P&L vs starting balance, and drawdown status. Drill into any account for an equity curve, daily P&L, and performance summary scoped to that capital.
- ▸Multi-account portfolio view across Apex, TopStep, FTMO and personal accounts
- ▸Prop-firm tab: log payouts, watch cycle progress (days, profit target, min trading days) and DD cushion — with milestone badges
- ▸Per-account equity curve, daily P&L bars, heatmap, summary
- ▸Account filter persists across pages — pick once, scope every view
- ▸Setup performance comparable across accounts, not just averaged into mush
Trade entry that doesn't fight you
The fastest journal entry in any product. Global keyboard shortcut, smart defaults from your last trade, futures-aware price parsing.
- ▸Smart-entry chips suggest setup, tags and rule-breaks from your playbook as you type — zero AI cost
- ▸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
- ▸Mood / energy emoji buttons — one tap each
- ▸Save & new for batch backfilling old trades
Every trade, on its own chart
Click a trade, see a real candlestick chart with your entry, stop, and exit marked. Pulled from a local backtest data store — no flaky broker iframes, no rate limits during your review session.
- ▸Auto-selects 1m / 5m / 1h based on hold time
- ▸Entry / Stop / Exit drawn as price lines
- ▸Fills marked with arrow markers, side-aware
- ▸Auto-backfills missing symbols on first view
Replay every trade, bar by bar
Flip any trade into replay mode and walk forward through the price action one bar at a time. The setup that fired, the way it broke, the moment you should have stepped aside — visible in motion, not just frozen on a chart.
- ▸Play / pause / step controls on the same chart — no second view to learn
- ▸Switch 1m → 5m → 15m → 30m → 1H → 4H mid-replay; bars resampled instantly
- ▸Entry / Stop / Exit lines stay visible; arrows appear when the cursor reaches them
- ▸Pan/zoom out to load more pre-trade context on demand
An AI coach that doesn't make things up
Morning brief in your inbox at 07:30. Post-trade review on every closed trade. Both grounded in structured facts the model can't hallucinate around — and both have deterministic heuristic fallbacks so the journal never just gives up.
- ▸Morning brief: yesterday + week patterns + question to anchor the day
- ▸Post-trade review: verdict, score, lesson, behavioral flags
- ▸End-of-session review: rolls up the day, flags patterns, surfaces tomorrow's question
- ▸Privacy mode: strips $ amounts before prompts (default on)
- ▸Per-tier monthly cap with transparent percentage display
Analytics that find the leak
Dashboard for the day-to-day, analytics page for the deep dive. Heatmap by day-of-week × hour. R-multiple distribution. After-loss vs after-win behavior. Sizing-vs-outcome scatter. The leak detection most journals don't bother with.
- ▸Equity curve with max drawdown markers
- ▸Per-setup expectancy with sample-size confidence
- ▸Annualised Sharpe ratio on dashboard + per-account — risk-adjusted performance you can compare across periods
- ▸Tilt detection: trades after losses underperforming?
- ▸Dashboards refresh automatically — open the page and it's already loaded
Connected to your broker, not your spreadsheet
OAuth into Tradovate once and trades flow in automatically — today's fills within minutes, full history on demand. NinjaTrader prop accounts (Apex, MyFundedFutures, FundedNext and other firms on the Tradovate API) use the same connection. Each prop-firm login is its own connection; map sub-accounts to local journals exactly how you think about them. CSV and Excel imports cover Tradovate and TopstepX (ProjectX) exports, plus a documented generic format.
- ▸Tradovate / NinjaTrader prop OAuth — today's trades within minutes of close, no manual export
- ▸Multi-connection: one user, many prop-firm logins, all separate
- ▸Full-history backfill from any date you pick — no upload needed
- ▸CSV / Excel imports (Tradovate, TopstepX, generic format) and the TradingView webhook
Integrations
Works with your trading platforms, not against them.
Connect Tradovate (and NinjaTrader prop accounts) live today, or upload Tradovate / TopstepX exports and CSVs in the generic format.
LiveDirect connect via OAuth — fills, accounts and the firm's drawdown settings sync automatically. The same OAuth covers NinjaTrader prop accounts (Apex, MyFundedFutures, FundedNext and other firms on the Tradovate API).
OAuth auto-import (Tradovate + NinjaTrader prop) + CSV export — all available today
Prop live · direct via CSVNinjaTrader prop accounts (Apex, MyFundedFutures, FundedNext and other firms on the Tradovate API) connect today via the Tradovate OAuth — same API under the hood. For NinjaTrader Brokerage direct accounts (non-prop), export your trades and bring them into the generic Tradelyst CSV format (columns in the import docs); a native one-click sync is on the roadmap.
Official NinjaTrader vendor
NinjaTrader prop: live today via the Tradovate connection · NinjaTrader Brokerage direct: generic CSV format today, native sync on the roadmap
CSV / Excel
LiveUpload a Tradovate (Orders, Fills or Performance) or TopstepX (ProjectX) export, or a file in the generic Tradelyst format. Auto-detected and deduplicated on re-import. (Tradovate + NinjaTrader prop accounts use the live OAuth above — no CSV needed.)
LivePersonal webhook URL receives alert payloads — log signals in real time without a broker connection.
Rithmic · IBKR
PlannedOn the roadmap, gated on the same integration track as Tradovate and NinjaTrader.
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