Best trading journal for prop firm traders. Track your results, analyze your performance, and test your strategies on TradingView charts with our backtesting tool.
Stack all your funded accounts together
Keep every evaluation and funded account separate, follow performance per account, and archive passed or suspended challenges without losing their trades or journal history.
Compatible with 200+ prop firms
How journaling with Tradespad helps prop firm traderspass more challenges and stay consistent
Prop firm trading is a rules game. Daily loss limits, max drawdown, consistency rules, and news restrictions decide whether you pass or pay for another reset. A trading journal built for prop firm traders makes those constraints visible in your process, not only in your P&L after the fact.
With Tradespad, you keep every evaluation and funded account separate, review the trades that broke risk rules, and tag mistakes like revenge trading, size creep, and weak sessions. That feedback loop is what turns random challenge attempts into a repeatable path to funding.
Journaling also supports consistency after you get funded. Filter performance by symbol, session, and strategy, spot patterns that threaten drawdown, and practice setups on TradingView charts before the next evaluation fee. The result is clearer decisions, fewer repeated errors, and a better chance of passing more challenges over time.
Journaling
An easy way to journal your trades.Connect your account or add trades manually.
Journal every metric of your trades
Automatic broker sync or manual import, add screenshots, notes, strategy confluences, risk-reward, and tags to journal every trade.
P&L Calendar to track your trading results
A visual and intuitive P&L calendar to check your daily, weekly, and monthly trading results, spot winning streaks, and review performance without opening a spreadsheet.
Analytics
Analytics to understand what works.You can't improve or fix what you don't measure.
From basic to advanced analytics
Filtered analytics to understand what your trades have to say. Not long reports or spreadsheets, analytics shown in a visual, easy to understand way.
Your trading results displayed month by month, year by year
The most visual way to analyze your trading results, yearly view, monthly, daily and candle by candle with our TradingView chart widget journal.
Turn challenge data into filtered insightsSee which symbols, sessions, and strategies threaten daily loss and drawdown
Backtesting
Go back in time with TradingView charts.Backtesting for forex, futures, stocks & crypto traders
NAS100Nasdaq Inc.4.745 days29,103.08
SP500S&P 500 Index4.745 days7,640.06
XAU/USDGold vs Dollar7.304 days4,342.79
BTC/USDBitcoin vs Dollar7.304 days77,401
GBP/USDPound vs Dollar7.304 days1.3514
EUR/USDEuro vs Dollar7.304 days1.1588
Backtest forex, crypto, indices, commodities and more.
Test your trading strategies across 30+ assets, analyze your results, and find out which setups actually have an edge.
Go to button
Automatically go to the next day/session or create custom values.
+24 years of market data available.
Replay historical markets, test your trading strategies, and see how they perform across different market conditions.
View moreThe best way to replay any marketReplay your favorite asset bar by bar
Backtest your sessions with a familiar workflowUse tools that you already use when you trade
Start for free
Draggable Stop Loss, Take Profit and Order Limit
The smoother experience to place and manage your backtesting trades, no more numbers and calculations.
Custom indicators
Use the pre-created indicators or create your own custom one
Customizable charts
You can select your preferred chart color, candles, lines and more. You can customize every inch, save layouts and use them again.
Journal your backtesting trades.Review your mistakes to refine your edge.
Start for freeIn-chart journaling workflow
Journal your trades without leaving the chart, then review them when the backtesting session is finished
The most intuitive way to journal your backtesting trades
Journal when the trade is opened or after closing it, then review it whenever you want in the backtesting journal.
Review your trades post-session
Access the backtesting journal to review your trades
Automatically generated entry and exit point
A visual way to remember your trades. Get automatically the real entry and exit point of your backtesting trades in a TradingView chart.
Integrations
Connect the platforms prop traders actually use Import or sync from stacks like MT5, Tradovate, TradeLocker, cTrader, and more on applicable plans. Always confirm your firm allows the connection method first.
What you need to pass, get funded, and stay consistent
A clean journal plus analytics and chart practice, without paying suite prices while you are still buying evaluations.
Journal every trade across every account
Notes, screenshots, strategy tags, and a review loop you can finish after a live challenge or funded session.
See risk and performance by account
P&L calendars, win rate, expectancy, and filters so you can diagnose the evaluation that is actually failing, not an averaged mess.
Practice inside prop-style constraints
Replay markets on TradingView charts, place simulated trades, and build confidence before you sit another evaluation.
Multi-account from day one
Stack challenges and funded accounts as your desk grows. Archive passed or suspended ones without deleting data. Free to start; upgrade when you need more slots or auto-sync.
How prop traders use Tradespad
A simple loop from practice to funded review, built for how prop traders actually work.
1. Practice before spending money on a challenge
Use TradingView Charts backtesting on the free plan to rehearse setups, execution, and risk habits before you pay for another evaluation.
2. Stack all your trading accounts in one place
Keep every evaluation and funded account separate in the Accounts Center, so challenge P&L never blurs with funded or personal results.
3. Keep track of your results and performance
Review P&L, win rate, and filtered analytics by symbol, session, and strategy to see what actually helps you pass and what keeps costing resets.
4. Keep the habit to get consistent results
Journal each session, tag process mistakes like revenge trades or size creep, and build the review loop that keeps you consistent after you get funded.
Pricing
Fair and flexible pricing plans
for every need
A real free plan with no credit card needed. Paid plans unlock auto-sync, more account slots, longer backtesting sessions, and more
Free
$0/mo
No credit card needed
Journaling
- Up to 1 trading account
- Manual journaling
- Up to 1 strategy
- Limited Automatic Analytics
- Automatic journaling (+650 brokers)
Backtesting
- Up to 3 backtesting sessions
- Unlimited trades per session
- Up to 1 year of history
- Limited backtesting journaling
Basic
$19/mo
$0 billed every 6 months
Journaling
- Up to 3 trading accounts
- Manual journaling
- Automatic journaling (+650 brokers)
- Unlimited Automatic Analytics
- Up to 3 strategies
Backtesting
- Up to 5 backtesting sessions
- Unlimited trades per session
- Up to 10 years of history
- Backtesting Journal
Pro
$29/mo
$0 billed every 6 months
Journaling
- Unlimited trading accounts
- Manual journaling
- Automatic journaling (+650 brokers)
- Unlimited Automatic Analytics
- Unlimited strategies
Backtesting
- Unlimited backtesting sessions
- Unlimited trades per session
- Up to 23 years of history
- Backtesting Journal
Unlock the full Tradespad experience with our Pro plan and access every advanced feature. See full comparison
Why traders journal and backtestGuess less. Prove more. Improve faster.
Why journal your trades
A journal turns every session into feedback you can actually use.
- See which setups, sessions, and habits make you money — and which ones don't.
- Review decisions with notes, screenshots, and tags instead of relying on memory.
- Spot emotional patterns early and stay consistent when the market gets loud.
Why backtest your strategy
Backtesting lets you validate an edge before you risk real capital.
- Replay historical markets and test entries, exits, and risk rules bar by bar.
- Build confidence with data across different conditions, not a few lucky trades.
- Refine your strategy faster by learning from hundreds of simulated trades.
Tradespad vs other journals for prop firm tradersSee why prop traders switch to Tradespad
Comparing several prop journals?
See Tradespad next to TradeZella, TraderSync, TradesViz, and more for multi-account prop workflows, pricing, and who each tool fits.
Best 8 journals for prop tradersFrequently asked questions. Straight answers for prop firm traders choosing a journal.
Look for multi-account tracking, a review habit you will keep, sync with the platforms your firm uses, and a price that makes sense while you pay for evaluations. Tradespad fits that path with journaling, analytics, and TradingView Charts backtesting, including a free plan.
Yes. Keep each evaluation or funded account separate so results do not blur across firms or stages. Confirm account limits on free vs paid plans.
Only if your firm allows it. Many firms restrict third-party tools or prefer read-only credentials. Verify the rules before connecting, then journal manually or via CSV if sync is not allowed.
Yes. Tradespad has a real free forever plan with journaling and limited TradingView Charts backtesting. Upgrade when you need more accounts, auto-sync, or longer sessions.
A journal cannot guarantee a pass. It makes the mistakes that breach daily loss, drawdown, and consistency rules measurable so you stop repeating them across resets.
This page is about Tradespad as the best journal for prop firm traders. The Best 8 guide compares multiple platforms side by side for the same use case.
Yes. TradingView Charts backtesting is available on the free plan so you can practice setups and risk habits before paying for another evaluation. Confirm current session limits on pricing.
Tradespad supports stacks prop traders commonly use, including MT5, Tradovate, TradeLocker, and cTrader on applicable plans. Always verify whether your firm allows third-party sync before connecting.
Yes. Archive passed, failed, or suspended challenge accounts to keep your active list clean. Archiving does not delete the account: trades, journal entries, and history stay available under Archived for later review. Archived accounts still count toward your plan account limit.
Journal the path from challenge to fundedMulti-account tracking, analytics, and chart practice from $0.
Tradespad is not affiliated with any prop firm. Features, pricing, and firm rules can change. Confirm live plans and whether your firm allows third-party tools before connecting an account. Educational content only, not financial advice.