A trading journal that knows your prop firm’s rules
A funded account is not lost by trading badly. It is lost by breaching a rule you were not tracking closely enough — usually a drawdown line that moved while you were focused on the trade in front of you.
The three drawdowns are not the same rule
Prop firms use the word "drawdown" for three different mechanics, and a journal that treats them alike will tell you that you are fine right up until you are not.
Trailing drawdown
The floor follows your highest balance — or in some firms your highest unrealised equity, which is stricter and catches people out. Take an account into profit intraday and give it back, and your limit has moved up even though your balance has not.
End-of-day drawdown
The floor is fixed and re-set only at the daily close. What happens inside the day does not move it, which makes the arithmetic simpler and the intraday room larger.
Static drawdown
One line from the starting balance that never moves. Rarest, and easiest to live with.
Evidence models all three and shows the one your firm actually uses, with the distance to it in your account currency — not as a percentage you still have to convert under pressure.
The consistency rule catches people at payout
Most firms cap how much of your total profit may come from a single day, typically 20 to 50 per cent. It is checked when you request a payout, which is the worst possible moment to learn about it: the account is passed, the money is earned, and one outsized green day makes it unpayable.
Evidence computes your best day as a share of total profit continuously, so the number is visible for weeks before it matters — while you can still fix it by trading normally rather than by not trading at all.
Prop mode: tell it your firm once
Pick your firm, the programme, the account size and the phase you are in — five short steps. From then on the whole app measures that account with your firm’s rules: a bar under the navigation with the distance to the floor and the room left today, the challenge on top of the overview, a warning on the trade card when a stop would eat most of today’s room, and the stop screen when a limit is reached. The daily limit is counted on the firm’s own clock — Topstep’s day starts at 5 pm Chicago time, FTMO’s at midnight in Prague — not on yours.
When every condition is met, Evidence says so. When a rule breaks, it says which one and on which day. With Pro it also moves you on to the next phase with that phase’s target, keeps the history, and on a funded account shows when the next payout opens — waiting period, winning days, consistency or buffer, depending on the firm.
Guardrails, before the breach
Rules that stop the day, not that grade it afterwards:
- A personal stop below the firm's daily limit — half of it unless you choose otherwise — because hitting the firm's is already too late.
- Trade cap. High trade counts erode results more reliably than any single bad setup.
- Cooldown after a loss — a timer, not a suggestion.
- Revenge detection. Two losses followed by a fast re-entry is a pattern with a name and a cost, and Evidence tells you while you are in it.
These are free, and so is the Prop mode for one challenge. Losing an account to overtrading is not a premium problem.
Several challenges at once
Most funded traders run more than one account — a live account, one or two challenges, a demo for testing. In Evidence each has its own drawdown state and its own statistics, and you can overlay their equity curves to see which one actually carries your edge. Mixed into one pile, that question has no answer.
Running several challenges at the same time is part of Pro, together with a ledger of what every challenge cost and paid, and an analysis of what ended the ones that failed — the rule, the day, the setups and the size you traded that day.
Getting the trades in
Statement import covers FTMO, Topstep, Apex and 90+ other brokers, including the platforms prop firms hand you — NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, DXtrade, Match-Trader, TradeLocker. If the account runs on cTrader, MT5 or TopstepX, it can sync by itself instead — see the Topstep trading journal.
Evidence is not affiliated with any prop firm. Rule models are configurable because firms change their terms — always check yours against your own contract.