Trading journal for prop firm traders
The futures trading journal built around your prop firm’s rules
PassTraq is a futures trading journal for prop firm traders: trades sync from Rithmic or import from six platforms, each day gets a plan and a review, and at 17:00 CT the day is graded on the rules you set, never on money made. Free on Starter, forever.
Journal: Starter (free)Analyst & reports: Trader and upReplay: Pro and up
Starter is free forever. No card, no trial.
One trading day · Starter
One trading day in your futures trading journal
The journal follows the CME trading day, 17:00 CT to 17:00 CT: a plan, the trades, the reviews, then a grade at the roll on your rules. One day, moment by moment:
Trading day · 17:00 CT
Tue, Oct 20, 2026
50K evaluation · times in UTC
Net+$112.50
Trades4
Win rate50%
Rules kept4 / 6
Equity
Pre-market plan07:30 CT
- Bias
- Long
- Max trades
- 3
- Risk per trade
- $125.00 · 1R
- Setups
- Opening range pullbackVWAP reclaim
TradesTradovate CSV
| Entry | Side | Result | Net | R | Playbook |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:47 | L | Win | +$212.50 | +1.7R | Opening range pullback |
| 14:58 | L | Loss | −$125.00 | −1.0R | VWAP reclaim |
| 15:40 | L | Win | +$150.00 | +1.2R | Opening range pullback |
| 17:12 | S | Loss | −$125.00 | −1.0R | — |
Trade reviewES short · 17:12 UTC
- Rating
- 1 / 5
- R from the bracket
- −1.0R
- Mistake
- Ignored Plan
- Felt
- Frustrated
- Replay
- Pro and up
Session review15:10 CT
Three trades were the plan. The fourth chased the VWAP loss back, over the max. Skip it next time.
Rule check4 / 6
Graded at the 17:00 CT roll, never on money
- Inside the daily loss limit50K evaluation: +$112.50 of a $1,000.00 limit
- Drawdown below CAUTIONPeak 6% used (50K evaluation) · threshold 50%
- A stop on every tradeEvery trade had a stop
- Playbook setups only1 of 4 not linked to a playbook
- No more trades than planned50K evaluation: 4 trades, 3 planned
- Review written before the resetReview saved before 17:00 CT
Analyst · by playbookTrader and up
| Playbook | n | Win rate | 95% range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening range pullback | 23 | 61% | 41–78% |
| VWAP reclaim | 14 | 50% | 27–73% |
| No playbook | 4 | 25% | 5–70% |
n = 41 · groups under 5 not compared
07:30 CT
Write the plan before the open
Set your bias, max trades and risk per trade. The 17:00 CT grade counts your trades against that max.
08:47 CT
Your trades arrive on their own
Rithmic fills sync; anything else imports from a CSV. R comes from the stop on record; with none, it reads “—”.
12:12 CTReplay · Pro and up
Review the trade that broke the plan
Rate it, tag it, name the mistake and how you felt, and tick its playbook's checklist. On Pro and up, Replay opens it in bar replay at the entry.
15:10 CT
Close the session with a review
Grade the session A to F, say whether you kept to the plan, and name one thing to cut tomorrow. Save it before 17:00 CT, or the review rule reads as broken.
17:00 CT
The day is graded on your rules
At the roll the day is checked against your rules, never money made. This day finished +$112.50 and kept 4 of 6: it broke “Playbook setups only” and “No more trades than planned”.
Across your daysAnalyst · Trader and up
See the pattern, with its sample size
The P&L calendar and equity curve are on Starter. On Trader and up, ask which playbook pays: the answer shows the trades behind each number and each win rate's 95% range.
All of it is on Starter, free.
Start your journal freeTrades in, trades out
How trades get into your trading journal
Three ways in, on every plan: Rithmic sync, CSV import, or a trade logged by hand. Everything goes back out as a CSV export, also on every plan.
Rithmic sync
Connect your firm's Rithmic login and fills land as trades, paired entry to exit. Apex Trader Funding and AMP Futures sync today.
CSV import
Tradovate, Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader, MetaTrader 4/5, TradeStation and TopstepX exports are recognised from the header; others import when their columns are recognisable. A bad row is refused with its reason, never imported as $0; duplicates are skipped.
Manual entry
Symbol, side, prices, size, times and commission. Add the risk amount and R is worked out from it.
Rithmic beta: Lucid Trading, Tradeify, Bulenox, Earn2Trade, Legends Trading Group, The Trading Pit, GOAT Funded Futures, DayTraders.com, BluSky Trading, Take Profit Trader, Elite Trader Funding, Phidias Propfirm, UProfit and Leeloo Trading; the first login shows whether Rithmic has enabled PassTraq. Not connectable yet: Topstep, MyFundedFutures, FTMO, The5%ers, E8 Markets, TradeDay and Funded Futures. Every firm's rulebook: prop firm rules.
No account yet? Eval Autopsy replays a broker export through every firm's evaluation rules.
Plan and review · Starter
The daily journal: a plan, a review, and playbooks
Each account gets one entry per trading day, with its trades under it: a plan before the open, a review after the close. Playbooks turn setups into checklists you tick per trade.
Pre-market plan
Bias, max trades, risk per trade and the plan, beside the account's daily loss left and progress to target. Templates: Pre-market plan, Post-session review, Weekly review and Weekly report card.
Session review
What happened, a session grade from A to F, and whether you followed the plan. Saved before 17:00 CT, it keeps the day's review rule.
Trade review
A half-star rating, tags, mistakes (nine ready to pick, or your own) and how you felt. Unreviewed trades wait in a queue.
Playbooks
A rule checklist in four groups (Context, Entry, Exit and Risk), written by you or started from three templates. On Trader and up, each rule shows its follow rate and your net kept against broken.
Discipline · Starter
Graded at 17:00 CT on the rules you keep, never on money
At 17:00 CT, when the trading day closes, PassTraq checks it against the rules you switched on; six are on to start. A green day can break them. A red day inside every rule is a kept day.
| Rule | What it checks | To start |
|---|---|---|
| Inside the daily loss limit | Each account's day net stays above its daily loss limit | On |
| Drawdown below CAUTION | Drawdown used stays under the threshold % of the max drawdown | On · 50% |
| A stop on every trade | Every trade has a bracket stop or a stop you typed | On |
| Playbook setups only | Every trade is linked to one of your playbooks | On |
| No more trades than planned | Trades per account stay within the journal's max trades | On |
| Review written before the reset | A session review is saved before 17:00 CT | On |
| No trade before your start time | The first trade is at or after your start time (Chicago) | Off · 08:30 CT |
A rule that can't be judged that day, such as max trades with nothing planned, leaves the score instead of failing it. Kept days in a row make your streak. Your firm's own limits are tracked live by the prop firm rules tracker.
Analytics, AI, replay, mentors
Journal analytics, your own Claude, and replay
The basics are on Starter, reports on Trader and up, deeper cuts on Pro and up. Every view filters by account, dates, playbook and tag, and can be saved.
Net P&L, win rate, average R, cumulative and daily P&L, a yearly P&L calendar, and results by symbol, hour and weekday.
Reports by weekday, hour, hold time, size, R, playbook, tag and mistake, and a weekly or monthly recap.
Cross-analysis, compare, exit analysis, the drawdown curve, R distribution and MFE/MAE.
The Analyst · Trader and up
Ask which playbook pays. Answers give n per group and a 95% win-rate range; groups under 5 trades aren't compared, and under 30 trades it is “not a finding”.
Your own Claude · Trader and up
Connect it over the PassTraq MCP connector, no API key. It asks under the same rules and drafts your day's review for you to edit. PassTraq runs no AI model of its own, and no connected app can place an order.
Replay and mentors
On Pro and up, a trade opens in bar replay on your broker's history, in the futures trading platform, and a mentor you invite reads the journal and comments (3 on Pro, unlimited on Quant).
Pricing
A free trading journal: what Starter includes
Starter is the journal, free forever, with no card and no trial, on one account. Paid plans add reports, the Analyst, replay and more accounts.
| Feature | Plan |
|---|---|
| Accounts | 1 on Starter, 5 on Trader, unlimited on Pro and Quant |
| Trade journal and trade reviews | Starter (free) |
| Daily plan and session review | Starter (free) |
| Discipline grading at 17:00 CT | Starter (free) |
| Rithmic fill sync | Starter (free) |
| CSV import and CSV export | Starter (free) |
| Base analytics and filters | Starter (free) |
| Reports and recap | Trader and up |
| Mistake patterns, playbook follow rates | Trader and up |
| The Analyst, and your own Claude over MCP | Trader and up |
| Trade replay | Pro and up |
| Advanced analytics and compare | Pro and up |
| Trade screenshots | Pro and up |
| Mentor spaces | Pro and up |
Paid plans are monthly (Trader $19, Pro $49 and Quant $79), started only at Stripe checkout. Cancel any time and keep everything on Starter.
Questions
Trading journal: questions traders ask
Is there a free trading journal for prop firm traders?
Yes. Starter is free forever, no card, no trial: 1 account, journal and playbooks, challenge rules dashboard, CSV import and export, base analytics, payout readiness and report. Reports start on Trader and up ($19 a month). What each plan adds.
Which platforms can I import trades from?
Tradovate, Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader, MetaTrader 4/5, TradeStation and TopstepX, detected from the CSV header. Other exports import when their columns are recognisable.
Does the journal sync with my prop firm automatically?
On Rithmic, yes: Apex Trader Funding and AMP Futures sync today on every plan, and 14 more prop firms connect in beta. Firms such as Topstep and MyFundedFutures import their CSV.
How does the 17:00 CT discipline grade work?
At 17:00 CT the day is checked against the rules you switched on, such as inside the daily loss limit and drawdown below caution. It is kept when every judged rule passed. Money made does not count.
Can I export my trades?
Yes, as CSV, on every plan, Starter included.
Can I ask AI about my trades?
On Trader and up, connect your own Claude over the PassTraq MCP connector, no API key. PassTraq runs no AI model of its own, and no connected app can place an order.
Does the journal include trade replay?
On Pro and up, bar by bar on your own broker's history, so your broker must be connected.
Can a mentor see my trading journal?
Only one you invite, on Pro and up: read-only, with comments on trades and days, never your email, billing or payouts.
Start with the free plan
Starter is free forever: no card, no trial. Paid plans start only when you choose one, and you can cancel any time and keep your data on Starter.