For prop traders

Trading Journal and Risk Review for Prop Traders

Import your history, watch your daily-loss and max-loss buffers, track consistency and target progress, and review the behavior that breaks rules — before the next trade does.

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Any firm’s rules
Daily & max-loss buffers
No execution, no signals

Map.Trade does not provide buy/sell signals, execute trades, or manage funds. It helps traders review historical performance, risk, and behavior.

Passing an evaluation is mostly a risk and discipline problem, not a strategy one. Map.Trade gives prop traders the two things that decide most outcomes: clear rule buffers, and an honest view of the behaviour that erodes them.

Key takeaways

Most failed prop evaluations end on the daily-loss or max-loss rule, not on a missed profit target.
Map.Trade tracks daily-loss, max-loss, consistency, and minimum-day buffers from your imported history against your firm's rules.
Per-trade risk should be bounded by the smaller of the remaining daily and max-loss buffers.
Mistake tags and a discipline score make the behaviour that breaks rules measurable.
Map.Trade reviews and monitors — it never executes trades or sends signals.

What prop traders get

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Daily-loss buffer

How close today is to the limit, before it’s too late.

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Max-loss buffer

Remaining room before the rule that ends the account.

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Target & consistency

Pace toward the target without one outsized day.

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Mistake review

Tag oversizing, no-stop, revenge, wrong-session trades.

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Discipline score

A measurable read on behaviour, not a vanity metric.

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Multi-account

Apply the same discipline across several rulesets.

A weekly prop workflow

1
Import the account
Bring your trading history in — read-only, no broker password.
2
Set the rules once
Daily loss, max loss, target, consistency, minimum days.
3
Check before sessions
Glance at remaining daily room before you trade.
4
Review after
Tag mistakes and watch your discipline score move.

The prop trader’s real problem

It’s rarely the setup. Evaluations break on one oversized day, a revenge sequence after a loss, or losing track of how close the account already is to a limit. Discipline and visibility matter more than another strategy.

Daily-loss and max-loss pressure

Seeing both budgets — the daily-loss limit and the account’s max drawdown, used and remaining — at the same time means neither rule sneaks up on you. The most you should risk next is the smaller of the two remaining buffers.

Consistency and target progress

Targets and consistency rules are progress measures, not breaches. Pace toward the profit target over several sessions instead of forcing it in one risky day.

Behavior review

Example

Two traders end the week green. One did it with steady 0.8% risk; the other with a 4% revenge day that happened to win. The P&L looks similar — the behavior review shows which one is likely to keep the account.

The Mind Layer for discipline

A discipline score plus revenge/overtrading detection turns vague “be disciplined” advice into specific, reviewable signals from your own trading — so you can actually change the behaviour that costs you.

Review your trading vs. follow signals

	Map.Trade	Signals / copy-trading
Source of edge	Your own reviewed process	Someone else’s calls
Rule awareness	Daily/max buffers in view	Usually ignored
After a loss	Discipline data to learn from	Pressure to follow more calls
Advice / execution	None — review only	Often implied