The FTMO trading journal that keeps challenge accounts alive.

No — and that's by design. FTMO doesn't run a journal-partnership or certification program, and we don't claim any official affiliation. GridTrade is built independently with the FTMO trader's workflow in mind: multi-account support for parallel challenges, daily-loss tracking via the calendar view, emotion logging on every trade, and R-multiple per position. That matters because FTMO evaluations live or die on discipline, not just win rate — the 5% daily loss and 10% maximum loss limits punish the trades you take on tilt, not the ones from your plan. A journal that shows you which emotional states and setups precede your worst drawdown days is doing the real work. GridTrade fits FTMO's manual review process rather than trying to replace it, so nothing here interferes with how the firm evaluates you. It's compatible with how FTMO actually works, without pretending to be something it isn't.

No — GridTrade is a journal, not a risk-management gateway sitting between you and your broker. FTMO's own platform enforces the actual daily-loss rule and closes you out if you breach it, so we don't duplicate that. What GridTrade does is surface the data that keeps you from getting close to the line in the first place: daily PnL laid out on the calendar, drawdown patterns broken down by emotion and setup, and the time-of-day or weekday clusters where you tend to lose control. FTMO's 5% daily and 10% maximum loss limits are unforgiving, and most blown challenges come from a single revenge-trading session, not slow bleed. Seeing those sessions plotted against how you felt is what changes behaviour before the platform has to. You still make every call — the journal just makes the pattern impossible to ignore, so you stop the day before FTMO stops it for you.

Yes. GridTrade is asset-agnostic with built-in presets for the instruments FTMO traders actually use — major and minor FX pairs, indices like NQ and ES via CFD, Gold, and BTC. If you trade something more exotic, custom ticker support lets you define your own contract, and PnL and R-multiple auto-calculate from the tick value and tick size you enter, so you're not doing pip math by hand at 2am. This matters for FTMO evaluations because your risk per trade has to stay consistent across very different instruments — a two-point move on an index and a 20-pip move on a pair can carry wildly different dollar risk. Getting R right per instrument is what lets you compare setups honestly and keep position sizing inside the daily-loss buffer. Whether you scalp indices, swing FX, or mix both across accounts, the journal normalises everything to R so your analytics stay apples-to-apples.

Direct broker import: not yet. You can manually re-log the most recent 30-50 trades — and honestly, that manual re-touch is the most valuable part of a post-mortem. Typing each trade back in forces you to relive the decision: tag the emotion you remember, mark whether it was a valid setup or an impulse, note where you sized up out of frustration. That's where the real lesson lives. Most FTMO challenges aren't lost to a bad strategy; they're lost to three or four tilt trades that broke the daily-loss limit, and those trades share a pattern you can only see once they're side by side. Re-logging 40 trades takes maybe half an hour and usually reveals the exact emotional trigger that ended the account. CSV import is on the roadmap for traders with 500+ historical trades who need bulk analysis, but for a single blown challenge, doing it by hand is the point, not a limitation.

Same setup — just add additional accounts. GridTrade was built for traders running multiple prop firms in parallel, and it's normal to have an FTMO 50k, an Apex evaluation, and a Topstep combine all live at once. Each account keeps its own balance, equity curve, and trade list, but the analytics unify across all of them, so you can finally see whether you actually trade better under one firm's rules than another's. That's a genuinely useful comparison: FTMO's 5% daily and 10% max loss discipline may suit your style far better than a trailing-drawdown firm, or the reverse, and the only way to know is to log both against the same emotion and setup tags. Switching between accounts is one click, and nothing bleeds between them. Running four challenges without a single source of truth is how traders lose track of which rule set they're even breaking. See also: Apex journal, Topstep journal, funded-account journal.

No — despite the name, GridTrade has nothing to do with grid trading. GridTrade is a manual trading journal: the 'grid' refers to the calendar and stats grid you review your trades in, not a grid of pending orders. If you searched 'FTMO grid trading', you're probably asking one of two things. First: does FTMO allow grid strategies? FTMO restricts certain automated and high-frequency approaches, and grid/martingale-style EAs sit in a grey zone — check FTMO's current terms directly before running one, because a rule breach ends the account regardless of profit. Second: can you journal grid-strategy trades here? Yes — GridTrade is strategy-agnostic, so grid, ORB, ICT, or plain discretionary trades all log the same way, with R-multiple, emotion, and drawdown tracking per trade. The journal doesn't place or manage orders; it measures what your strategy actually does.