The trading journal funded-account traders actually need.

You can — and many traders start there. The gap shows up around trade 50: filtering becomes painful, mistake patterns disappear in the noise, you can't easily ask "what's my win rate on NQ Mondays before 10am at emotion ≥ 4?" A purpose-built journal makes those queries one-click. For funded traders the spreadsheet breaks down faster, because you're not tracking one account — you're tracking several with different daily loss limits and drawdown types, and a formula error on the wrong cell can hide how close you are to breaching. Drawdown distance, challenge-vs-funded comparisons, and emotion logging all have to be built and maintained by hand, and they rarely survive a bad week when you least feel like updating a sheet. A dedicated journal keeps those views live automatically, so the analysis is there when you actually need it — during the debrief, not three months later when the account is already gone.

Hetzner servers in Frankfurt (Germany) and Supabase EU region. GDPR-compliant, row-level security per user (nobody but you reads your trades — not even us). Trade data exports as JSON/CSV anytime. For funded traders this matters more than usual: your journal holds a full record of how you trade across every prop firm, which strategies work under which rules, and where your discipline slips — the kind of history you don't want sitting in a random cloud tool with unclear ownership. Storing it in the EU under row-level security means each account's data is isolated at the database level, not just hidden behind a login. Because you can export the whole thing to JSON or CSV whenever you want, you're never locked in: if a prop firm shuts down or you switch tools, your multi-account history stays portable and yours, ready to carry into your next challenge or a fresh analysis somewhere else.

Yes — GridTrade is a PWA that installs on iOS and Android with full feature parity. Logging a trade while the emotion is still raw (within 5 minutes of close) is the single highest-value journaling habit. We optimized the mobile flow for that. This matters most on funded accounts, where the trades that breach rules are usually the emotional ones — the revenge entry after a stop-out, the oversized size-up when you feel behind on the payout target. If you wait until evening to log, that feeling has faded and you'll write a sanitized version that hides the real cause. Capturing the emotion score and a one-line note on your phone, at the desk, right after close, is what turns the journal into an early-warning system. Over weeks it shows you which emotional states precede your worst days on funded capital, so you can flatten or walk away before you hand the drawdown line back to the prop firm.

Currently manual — by design, the migration is a review pass on each trade (which is valuable). CSV import is on the roadmap for traders with 500+ historical trades. For funded traders the manual pass is worth more than it sounds: as you re-enter each trade you tag which account and rule set it belonged to, and you'll notice patterns that a bulk import would flatten — for instance that your challenge trades were disciplined but your funded ones drifted once payout money was live. That labeling is exactly the multi-account context GridTrade is built to analyze, so doing it by hand once seeds a cleaner journal than a raw dump ever would. If you're carrying hundreds of trades and don't need per-trade review, wait for the CSV import rather than grinding it out. See also our honest comparisons: vs Tradervue, vs Edgewonk, vs Tradezella.

Your trade data stays in your GridTrade account regardless — keeping the historical journal is one of the best ways to debrief and apply lessons to your next prop firm. Prop firms come and go, change their rules, or freeze payouts, and none of that touches the record of how you actually traded. Because each firm is just a separate account in your journal, a shutdown doesn't corrupt anything — you keep the full history of setups, emotion scores, and where you sat against that firm's drawdown line right up to the end. That's exactly the material you want when you start a new challenge somewhere else: you already know which strategies held up under pressure, which emotional states cost you, and what your real numbers look like across accounts. And since you can export everything to JSON or CSV at any time, your journal outlives any single firm — the data is yours to carry forward, not theirs to take offline.