# TakeJournal

> TakeJournal is a trading journal for futures, prop-firm and copy traders. It reads your fills from your broker or prop firm and builds your trades from them: one trade across every account a copier copied it to, with what it did on each account. Each account is checked against its prop firm's rules (the drawdown and how it trails, the daily loss limit, consistency, payouts), and the copier is checked for missed and late fills. It only reads: it never places, changes or cancels an order.

Stocks, options, crypto and forex work too. Live sync with TopstepX, the NinjaTrader 8 add-on, the Quantower plugin, MetaTrader 4/5, cTrader, TradeLocker, DXtrade, Match-Trader, IG, Capital.com, OANDA, Interactive Brokers, Trading 212 and 22 crypto exchanges. Rithmic accounts sync live through the NinjaTrader 8 add-on or the Quantower plugin today; a direct Rithmic connection and tastytrade are coming soon, not live yet. The exports of Tradovate, NinjaTrader, R|Trader Pro, Bookmap, Interactive Brokers and the crypto exchanges import as files, and any other broker's statement through the AI import. TakeJournal is a web app (https://app.takejournal.com) that installs on a phone from the browser; there is no app in the App Store or Google Play. The web site and the guide are in 14 languages.

Plans, in US dollars without VAT, monthly or yearly (a year costs 25 % less). Every new account starts on Free and can switch on a 7-day trial of Pro once.

- Free: $0, no card and no time limit; trying the journal on one account: trades typed in or a file imported a day; no live sync, no AI.
- Trader: $29 a month or $261 a year; 5 accounts, 2 broker logins; one trader: live sync, the trade chart in 1-minute bars, the AI chat and the week's AI review.
- Pro: $49 a month or $441 a year; 20 accounts, 5 broker logins; several prop firms: the copy tools, the chance of passing, the day's AI review, the finest chart data.
- Fleet: $99 a month or $891 a year; unlimited accounts and broker logins; no limit of accounts, everything new first (Spotter, the sync while the app is open), priority e-mail support.

## Main pages

- [Home](https://takejournal.com/): what TakeJournal does, with screenshots of the demo.
- [Pricing](https://takejournal.com/pricing/): Four plans by the accounts you trade and how deep you go; the paid plans in US dollars, monthly or yearly with three months free.
- [Brokers and imports](https://takejournal.com/brokers/): Sync your trades from TopstepX, NinjaTrader 8, MetaTrader 4/5, cTrader, TradeLocker, IG, OANDA and more, or import any broker's statement with AI.
- [Prop firms](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/): every prop firm TakeJournal knows, with its account types and the rules it checks on them; each firm has its own page (below).
- [TakeJournal compared](https://takejournal.com/compare/): TakeJournal next to TradeZella, TradesViz and Tanto, row by row: prices, accounts, Rithmic, copied trades, prop firm rules, replay and AI.
- [TradeZella alternative for prop traders](https://takejournal.com/compare/tradezella/): TakeJournal and TradeZella side by side: prices, accounts, Rithmic and Tradovate, copied trades, prop firm rules, replay and AI.
- [TradesViz alternative for prop traders](https://takejournal.com/compare/tradesviz/): TakeJournal and TradesViz side by side: prices, accounts, Rithmic, Tradovate and TopstepX, copied trades, prop firm rules, replay and AI.
- [Tanto alternative for prop traders](https://takejournal.com/compare/tanto/): TakeJournal and Tanto side by side: prices, accounts, Rithmic and ProjectX, copied trades and what a copier needs on top.
- [Questions and answers](https://takejournal.com/docs/faq/): What TakeJournal does and does not do, the plans and the trial, brokers and imports, trades and analytics, prop firms and copy trading, security, billing and support.
- [Demo](https://app.takejournal.com/demo): the whole journal on sample data, read-only, without an account: a futures master with its followers, prop accounts in evaluation and funded, stocks and options, crypto and forex.

## Guide

- [Your first ten minutes](https://takejournal.com/docs/getting-started/first-steps/): Look at the demo, sign up, pick where your trades come from on the first screen, and find your way around.
- [Master and followers: one trade on many accounts](https://takejournal.com/docs/trades/logical-trades/): Journal a trade copier's trades once: one decision on many accounts is one trade, the master's, with the followers attached and a copy audit.
- [Copy quality over time](https://takejournal.com/docs/analytics/copy-quality/): Every follower against its master, per period: missed fills, sizes off the multiplier, late fills, latency and slippage at the entry and the exit, and the spread between what each copy made and what it should have.
- [Firm rules — daily loss, consistency, payouts](https://takejournal.com/docs/prop/firm-rules/): Track your prop firm's rules on every account: daily loss, consistency, trading days and payouts, prefilled for Apex, Topstep, FTMO, FundedNext and more.
- [TopstepX: connect through the ProjectX API](https://takejournal.com/docs/connections/topstepx/): Journal your TopstepX Combine, XFA and Practice accounts automatically, read-only through the ProjectX API, with fees, 1-second bars and MFE/MAE.
- [NinjaTrader 8: the add-on](https://takejournal.com/docs/connections/ninjatrader/): Journal every NinjaTrader 8 trade automatically: TakeJournal's add-on sends each execution and your chart's bars as they happen, on any connection.
- [Any broker's export: a statement mapped by AI](https://takejournal.com/docs/imports/any-export/): Import any broker's statement into your journal: CSV, XLSX, HTML or PDF, its columns mapped by AI, checked in a preview, remembered for next time.
- [Charts, MFE and MAE](https://takejournal.com/docs/analytics/charts-mfe-mae/): Every trade on the bars of its broker with the fills and the trade box; the best and worst price during the trade computed from the market data.
- [Spotter, the coach that speaks up](https://takejournal.com/docs/analytics/spotter/): Spotter reads your journal as your trades come in and says a short word before, during and after your session, from your own trades and rules, never what to trade.

## API and AI assistants

- [API keys: your journal in your own scripts](https://takejournal.com/docs/account/api/): Read your accounts, trades, fills and statistics from your own scripts, spreadsheets and coding tools with a personal key: what a key reads, the calls, the limits, revoking it.
- [OpenAPI description](https://app.takejournal.com/api/v1/openapi.json): the API's calls and answers, readable without a key; the calls need a personal API key of a Pro or Fleet account.
- [AI assistants: ask about your journal over MCP](https://takejournal.com/docs/account/ai-assistants/): Connect Claude Code, Cursor and other AI tools to your journal through TakeJournal's MCP server: adding it with a key, what the assistant reads, privacy, limits.
- [MCP server](https://app.takejournal.com/mcp): streamable HTTP; Claude and ChatGPT connect with OAuth, other clients with an API key. Its card: https://takejournal.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json, listed in https://takejournal.com/.well-known/ard.json (and ai-catalog.json); the API in https://takejournal.com/.well-known/api-catalog.
- [Pricing in Markdown](https://takejournal.com/pricing.md): the plans' prices, limits and features as one table.

## Articles

- [Consistency rules explained, firm by firm](https://takejournal.com/blog/consistency-rules-prop-firms/): What a prop firm's consistency rule (the best-day rule) measures, how one big day raises your target or holds a payout, and which futures and forex firms use which share.
- [How to journal copied trades across many prop accounts](https://takejournal.com/blog/journal-copied-trades-across-prop-accounts/): A copier turns one decision into twenty trades. How to keep one journal entry per decision, count your results once, and still see what every account did.
- [Trailing drawdown vs end-of-day drawdown, firm by firm](https://takejournal.com/blog/trailing-vs-end-of-day-drawdown/): Intraday trailing, end-of-day trailing and static drawdowns: what each does to your room on a 50K account, where the trailing stops, and which futures prop firms use which.

## Prop firms

- [Alpha Capital Group](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/alpha-capital/): 113 account types and their rules.
- [Alpha Futures](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/alpha-futures/): 22 account types and their rules.
- [Apex Trader Funding](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/apex/): 28 account types and their rules.
- [Blue Guardian](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/blueguardian/): 107 account types and their rules.
- [BrightFunded](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/brightfunded/): 48 account types and their rules.
- [Bulenox](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/bulenox/): 40 account types and their rules.
- [E8 Markets](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/e8markets/): 40 account types and their rules.
- [E8 Markets Futures](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/e8-futures/): 24 account types and their rules.
- [Earn2Trade](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/earn2trade/): 22 account types and their rules.
- [Elite Trader Funding](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/etf/): 25 account types and their rules.
- [Fintokei](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/fintokei/): 46 account types and their rules.
- [FTMO](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/ftmo/): 30 account types and their rules.
- [FTMO Futures](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/ftmo-futures/): 12 account types and their rules.
- [Funded Trading Plus](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/fundedtradingplus/): 27 account types and their rules.
- [FundedNext](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/fundednext/): 46 account types and their rules.
- [FundedNext Futures](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/fundednext-futures/): 19 account types and their rules.
- [FunderPro](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/funderpro/): 61 account types and their rules.
- [FundingPips](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/fundingpips/): 64 account types and their rules.
- [FXIFY](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/fxify/): 132 account types and their rules.
- [Lucid Trading](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/lucid/): 32 account types and their rules.
- [Maven Trading](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/maven/): 96 account types and their rules.
- [MyFundedFutures](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/mffu/): 26 account types and their rules.
- [Phidias Propfirm](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/phidias/): 20 account types and their rules.
- [Take Profit Trader](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/tpt/): 15 account types and their rules.
- [The5ers](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/the5ers/): 38 account types and their rules.
- [The5ers Futures](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/the5ers-futures/): 8 account types and their rules.
- [Top One Futures](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/topone/): 28 account types and their rules.
- [Topstep](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/topstep/): 9 account types and their rules.
- [TradeDay](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/tradeday/): 20 account types and their rules.
- [Tradeify](https://takejournal.com/prop-firms/tradeify/): 24 account types and their rules.

## Optional

- [Guide](https://takejournal.com/docs/): How to use TakeJournal, one short article per screen and per source of trades, with screenshots from the demo.
- [Roadmap](https://takejournal.com/roadmap/): What TakeJournal is building next and what shipped lately, from our issue tracker.
- [Terms of Service](https://takejournal.com/terms/): The terms for using TakeJournal.
- [Privacy Policy](https://takejournal.com/privacy/): How TakeJournal handles personal data.
- [Status](https://status.takejournal.com/): whether the app and the site are up.