Prop Firm Trading Journal: Rules, Drawdown and Payouts

Rules tracked from your trades

Set your challenge up once, or apply your firm's profile on Pro. Every trade you record or import updates each rule.

Profit target: Progress to the target, as an amount or a percentage.
Drawdown: Static, end-of-day trailing or intraday trailing, including floors that lock.
Daily loss: Limits that fail the account or only pause the day.
Consistency: Your best-day share against the limit.
Trading days: Minimum days traded, or days above a profit threshold.
Payouts: The firm's payout conditions, and how much room a payout leaves above the drawdown floor.

Journalit funded phase panel: available payout and withdrawal preview beside EOD drawdown, daily loss and payout requirements

A few profiles from the full catalogue

Pro firm profiles: 12 firms · 255 accounts · catalogue updated 11 Nov 2026

Topstep
Verified 5 Nov 2026 · 16 accounts
Sizes:
25K–150K
Drawdown:
Static, EOD trailing
Consistency:
Eval + payouts
Topstep rules
Tradeify
Verified 5 Nov 2026 · 18 accounts
Sizes:
25K–300K
Drawdown:
EOD trailing
Consistency:
Eval + payouts
Tradeify rules
MyFundedFutures
Verified 3 Sep 2026 · 19 accounts
Sizes:
5K–150K
Drawdown:
Static, EOD trailing, Intraday trailing
Consistency:
Eval + payouts
MyFundedFutures rules

On Pro, pick the firm and the account and Journalit fills in that account's rules from the catalogue.

What Journalit can't see

The firm is the authority. Its dashboard and help centre decide whether an account has passed, breached or qualified for a payout.
Journalit tracks rules from the trades recorded in your journal. It does not see your broker's tick-by-tick equity, so it cannot detect a breach that happened on unrealised profit or loss inside a trade, and an intraday trailing floor is modelled from recorded trade results.
Journalit shows where you stand. It does not connect to the firm's risk system, place or block orders, or prevent a breach.
Conditions a firm decides at its discretion, or that the profile does not model, stay marked as unknown rather than counted as met.
Journalit does not monitor position limits or contract-scaling rules. Check your firm's rules and trading platform.

Which rule broke, then why

Your firm's dashboard tells you which rule you broke. Journalit tracks the same rules from your trades and keeps your trade reviews in the same journal, so you can work out why.

Trading Combine marked failed, with the end-of-day drawdown past its limit and the other rules still in progress — 1
See which rule broke
Journalit checks the modelled rules against your recorded trades, so you can see which recorded limit was breached.

Daily review listing the day's trades, with two reviewed and two waiting for review — 2
Find out why
Review that day's trades. What you wrote about each one, from your setup to what pulled you in, is what explains the loss.

Can you take a payout?

Two separate answers: what your firm's policy allows, and how much room the payout leaves above your drawdown floor.

Funded phase panel with the amount available now, a payout preview, trader share, balance after, drawdown floor and room before breach, beside payout requirements

Try it on real firm rules on the Tradeify payout check.

Is prop trading paying?

Evaluation fees next to your payouts, so the answer is a number.

Challenges view with pass rate, challenge costs, payouts and net, an economics panel with ROI, and challenge cards grouped by account type

Costs: Fees, resets and activations
Payouts: Every payout you record
Eval ROI: Net return on what you spent
Pass rate: By phase and by firm

Journalit and other prop-firm journals

The journals that come up when traders ask for prop-firm tracking, compared from their own pages. Some do more of the work for you, and several cost less.

Journalit and other prop-firm trading journals compared on price, free plan, firm rule presets, the prop rules they check and broker sync
Journal	Price	Free plan	Firm rules filled in	Rules it checks	Broker sync
JournalitObsidian plugin, data on your device	Price$19/mo or $180/yrPro; prop tracking itself is free	Free planUnlimited accounts	Firm rules12 firms on Pro	Rules it checks Tracks: Drawdown Tracks: Trailing Tracks: Daily loss Tracks: Consistency Tracks: Min days Tracks: Payouts	Broker sync5 platformsMetaTrader 4, Tradovate, Rithmic, cTrader, Hyperliquid
PropJournalpropjournal.net	Price$19/moTeam $49/mo; no yearly price printed	Free plan1 account, 50 trades/mo	Firm rules50+ firms	Rules it checks Tracks: Drawdown Tracks: Trailing Tracks: Daily loss Tracks: Consistency Not described: Min days Not described: Payouts	Broker syncMT4, MT5, cTrader
PropJournalthepropjournal.com	Price$96/yror $12/mo, or $60 every 6 months	Free plan7-day trial	Firm rules30+ firms	Rules it checks Tracks: Drawdown Not described: Trailing Tracks: Daily loss Not described: Consistency Tracks: Min days Not described: Payouts	Broker syncImport only
TrackyTradeWindows app	Price$99/yror $10/mo; licence for one machine	Free plan7-day trial	Firm rules9 firms	Rules it checks Tracks: Drawdown Not described: Trailing Tracks: Daily loss Tracks: Consistency Tracks: Min days Not described: Payouts	Broker syncNinjaTrader 8, Quantower
FreeTradeJournalWeb app (PropTracker)	Price$99.99/yror $12.99/mo	Free plan1 prop account	Firm rulesYou enter them	Rules it checks Tracks: Drawdown Not described: Trailing Tracks: Daily loss Not described: Consistency Not described: Min days Not described: Payouts	Broker syncImport only
TradeStackWeb app	PriceFreeNo paid plan	Free planEverything	Firm rulesNot described	Rules it checks Not described: Drawdown Not described: Trailing Not described: Daily loss Not described: Consistency Not described: Min days Not described: Payouts	Broker syncHourly sync
ConsistryWeb, iOS, Android and Mac	Price$169.99/yror $18.99/mo	Free planUnlimited accounts	Firm rules46 firms	Rules it checks Tracks: Drawdown Tracks: Trailing Tracks: Daily loss Tracks: Consistency Not described: Min days Not described: Payouts	Broker syncOn Premium
TradesVizWeb app	Price$29.99/moPlatinum; $22.49/mo billed yearly	Free planStocks only	Firm rules37+ firms	Rules it checks Tracks: Drawdown Tracks: Trailing Tracks: Daily loss Tracks: Consistency Tracks: Min days Tracks: Payouts	Broker syncTradovate, Rithmic and more
JournalPlusWeb app	Price$99/yror $159 lifetime	Free planNo	Firm rulesYou enter them	Rules it checks Tracks: Drawdown Tracks: Trailing Tracks: Daily loss Tracks: Consistency Not described: Min days Not described: Payouts	Broker syncCSV import

Dimmed rules: not offered by Journalit, or not described on the vendor's pages. Prices in US dollars as printed, before tax. Checked 24 Oct 2026: propjournal.net · thepropjournal.com · TrackyTrade · TrackyTrade pricing · PropTracker · FreeTradeJournal pricing · TradeStack · drawdown simulator · Consistry · Consistry pricing · TradesViz · TradesViz pricing · JournalPlus.

More manual: Journalit checks rules against the trades in your journal. It does not watch a synced account’s live equity, so it cannot warn you in the middle of a trade; Consistry says it checks synced trades every 2 minutes and propjournal.net says it alerts at 70% and 90% of a limit. On the free plan you type in your firm’s rules; firm profiles are Pro.
Firm coverage: Journalit’s profiles cover 12 firms. The firm counts the others give: PropJournal (propjournal.net) 50+, PropJournal (thepropjournal.com) 30+, TrackyTrade 9, Consistry 46 and TradesViz 37+.
Cheaper: Tracking prop challenges with rules you enter is free in Journalit, with no limit on accounts or trades. FreeTradeJournal’s free plan covers 1 prop-firm account and propjournal.net’s 1 account and 50 trades a month. Consistry’s free plan also has unlimited prop-firm accounts.
Costs more: PropJournal (thepropjournal.com) ($96/yr), TrackyTrade ($99/yr), FreeTradeJournal ($99.99/yr), Consistry ($169.99/yr) and JournalPlus ($99/yr) cost less for a year than Journalit Pro at $180/yr, and TradeStack has no paid plan.

Every rival cell was read from the vendor's own pages on 24 Oct 2026; prices are quoted as printed there and may have changed. Two different products call themselves PropJournal, so both are listed by domain. Where a vendor's page does not describe a feature, the table says so rather than guessing.

Questions

Yes. You can create prop challenges with your own phases, rules and payout policies, record payouts and costs, and see rule progress, Challenge Alerts and Eval ROI on the free plan. Pro adds maintained firm profiles that fill in a challenge for you, notices when a linked firm profile changes, and Trade Import and automatic trade sync.

No. Obsidian is a free notes app for desktop and mobile, and Journalit installs from its Community Plugins directory. An onboarding wizard creates your first trading account, so you do not need an existing Obsidian setup or any prior knowledge of it. Your journal stays on your device.

Any firm can be tracked by entering its rules yourself. For the firms listed on the prop firm rules reference, Journalit also maintains profiles with each programme, account size, rule and payout policy, which Pro users can apply in one step.

No. Journalit shows where you stand against each rule from the trades recorded in your journal, and warns you when a rule is close to its limit. It does not connect to the firm's risk system or block orders, and it cannot see unrealised profit or loss inside a trade, so an intraday trailing drawdown is modelled from recorded trade results. The firm's dashboard is the authority.

A funded phase can carry the firm's payout policy. Journalit shows each requirement and whether it is met, the amount the policy allows, and what a request would do to your balance, drawdown floor and room before a breach. Those are shown separately, because a request the policy allows can still leave very little room. Recorded payouts feed your challenge economics.

Yes. Every challenge has its own phases, rules and linked broker accounts. The Challenges view groups them by stage, shows the action each one needs next, and totals costs, payouts, pass rates and Eval ROI across them.

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