Free Trading Journal for Prop Firm Evaluations
TradeStack is a free trading journal built for traders in a prop firm evaluation. Import your trades, watch your daily loss limit and drawdown in real time, and see whether your edge is good enough to pass an FTMO, FundedNext or futures challenge, before the firm decides for you.
Free forever. No card required.
Why most traders fail a prop firm evaluation
Evaluations are rarely lost on strategy. They are lost on risk: one oversized revenge trade after a red morning, a daily loss limit breached by a few hundred dollars, or a profit target hit on a single lucky day that fails a consistency review. Without trade tracking, none of that is visible until the account is already gone.
The three numbers that decide the outcome
- Daily loss used. How much of today's limit is already spent.
- Drawdown remaining. The distance between your equity curve and the hard floor.
- Consistency. The share of total profit that came from your single best day.
What TradeStack tracks for prop firm traders
- Daily P&L calendar so a breached daily loss limit is obvious before it happens
- Equity curve and drawdown tracking against your evaluation's maximum loss
- Consistency % so one lucky day doesn't fail your payout review
- Per-portfolio account sizes: one journal for the evaluation, one for the funded account
- Playbooks and setup tagging to prove which setup actually passes evaluations
- Trading psychology notes and a news-day tag on every trade
How to set up your evaluation journal in 5 minutes
- Create a free account, no card required.
- Create a portfolio for the evaluation and set its account size to the challenge size.
- Export a CSV from your platform and import it, or log trades by hand on the calendar.
- Check the daily P&L calendar every session against your daily loss limit.
- Review the equity curve and consistency weekly, and tag the setups that carry your edge.
Prop firm journal FAQ
How do I track FTMO evaluation progress?
Log every trade in a trading journal that stores date, symbol, size and P&L, then read three numbers daily: profit target progress, daily loss used, and total drawdown remaining. In TradeStack the daily P&L calendar shows exactly how much of your daily loss limit each session consumed, and the equity curve shows how close your account sits to the maximum drawdown line.
Is there a free trading journal for prop firm traders?
Yes. TradeStack is free forever with no card required. You get unlimited trades, CSV import from Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Rithmic, MetaTrader, TradingView and more, plus win rate, expectancy, profit factor and a daily P&L calendar built for prop firm evaluation rules.
What should a prop firm trading journal track?
Daily loss used against the limit, trailing or static drawdown remaining, progress toward the profit target, consistency (how much of your profit came from a single day), and the setup behind each trade. Trading psychology notes matter too: most evaluations are failed by revenge trades and oversized risk after a loss, not by a bad strategy.
Does TradeStack work with FTMO, FundedNext and futures firms?
Yes. TradeStack is broker and firm agnostic. If your platform exports a CSV, TradeStack imports it, so the same journal covers an FTMO MetaTrader account, a futures evaluation on Tradovate or Rithmic, and your personal live account side by side as separate portfolios.