The Apex Trader Funding journal that tracks all your Evals.

No — and it shouldn't, because GridTrade is a journal, not a risk-management gateway sitting between you and the market. Enforcement is Apex's job: their platform tracks the trailing threshold in real time and will flatten or lock the account if you breach it. What GridTrade does is make the approach visible before you get there. We surface the data that actually predicts a breach — account balance, daily PnL on the calendar, and the emotion-driven patterns that show up right before the trades that blow evals. If you can see that your worst days cluster after a big win, or that you keep pushing size when you're already near the buffer, you fix the behaviour instead of relying on the hard stop to save you. Think of it as the record that keeps you honest, while Apex holds the actual line.

Yes, easily. There's no artificial cap on account count, so 8 is fine, and so is 15 or all 20 if you're really running the full Apex allowance. Each eval keeps its own balance, equity curve, and trade list, and the account-switcher moves between them in one click without you reloading or losing your place. At 8 accounts the real value isn't the switching, though — it's the unified analytics that sit on top. When you're spread that thin, the danger is that a losing setup hides in plain sight because no single account looks bad enough to notice. The combined view rolls every trade together so you can see a pattern that's quietly bleeding you across the whole book: one session time, one instrument, one setup that only reveals itself in aggregate. That cross-account picture is exactly what a spreadsheet-per-eval approach can never give you.

The calendar view and the daily PnL distribution make your consistency visible at a glance: you can immediately see whether your profit is spread across many days or leaning on one or two outlier sessions. That distribution is exactly what Apex looks at when it gates a payout — the rule is designed to stop a single lucky day from carrying an otherwise mediocre account, so a profit that's too concentrated can hold up your withdrawal even when the total looks great. Seeing your own spread in the journal before you submit is the point. If one Tuesday is doing all the work, you know to keep trading normally and let the other days catch up rather than requesting the payout early and getting knocked back. GridTrade doesn't calculate Apex's exact consistency percentage for you, but it puts the raw daily shape right in front of you so nothing about your request surprises you.

Yes, with all of them. GridTrade is platform-agnostic and manual-entry by design, so it sits alongside whatever execution platform your Apex account uses — Rithmic, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, or anything else on their supported list — without any connection, API key, or broker login to set up. That's a deliberate choice, not a limitation: manual entry forces a few seconds of reflection on every trade, which is where the emotion tags and setup notes that make a journal useful actually come from. A trade you had to type is a trade you had to think about. For traders who want to move a back-catalogue across in one go rather than re-enter it, a CSV and statement import is on the roadmap. Until then, most Apex traders start logging from today forward, since the point of the journal is changing the next hundred trades, not archiving the last thousand.

Yes, and this is one of the strongest reasons to journal outside the prop firm's own dashboard. Just add separate accounts for each firm — an Apex eval here, an FTMO challenge there, a Topstep combine alongside — and each keeps its own balance, rules-of-thumb, and equity curve while the unified analytics still let you compare how you actually trade across all of them. That comparison is genuinely useful, because the same trader is often consistent under one firm's drawdown model and reckless under another's, and you only see it when the accounts live side by side in one place. Each firm's rules differ, though, so treat the trailing-drawdown and consistency logic per account rather than assuming Apex's terms carry over — Topstep's trailing behaviour and FTMO's daily-loss limit work nothing like Apex's, and mixing them up in your head is how a good account gets breached. See also: FTMO journal, Topstep journal, funded-account journal.