Pass the eval. Survive the cycle. Keep the funded account.
Real-time drawdown cushion, 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.
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Built for prop-firm survival
The three things that decide whether you keep the account.
Know exactly how close you are to liquidation
Live trailing-DD floor and remaining cushion, refreshed every minute straight from your broker. 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 net liq 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 computed live from your broker and overlaid on your equity curve. See the floor moving with your peak, the cushion shrinking with every loss — before the firm liquidates, not after.
- ▸Trailing-DD floor + remaining cushion, refreshed every minute
- ▸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 live 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 — Elite adds sub-minute (1s)
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?
- ▸Hourly cron refreshes — sub-500ms warm load
Connected to your broker, not your spreadsheet
OAuth into Tradovate once and trades flow in automatically — near real-time for today's fills, full history on demand. Each prop-firm login is its own connection; map sub-accounts to local journals exactly how you think about them. CSV and Excel imports stay as fallback for any broker without an API.
- ▸Tradovate 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 — Reporting API under the hood
- ▸CSV / Excel / TradingView webhook still work for anything else
Integrations
Works with your trading platforms, not against them.
Bring your fills in via CSV today, or wait for the one-click integrations we're building out with our integrated platforms.
LiveDirect connect via OAuth — fills, accounts, drawdown rules and prop-firm payouts all sync automatically.
OAuth auto-import + CSV export — both available today
CSV today, native comingExport your NinjaTrader trade history to CSV and import via the generic-format mapper. Native one-click sync is on the roadmap alongside the Rithmic integration.
Official NinjaTrader vendor
CSV import (generic format) available today; native NinjaTrader parser is in progress
CSV / Excel
LiveDrop any platform export — Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TraderEvolution, or a generic format. Auto-detected and deduplicated on re-import.
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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