For prop firm & live-account futures traders

The trade journal that actually runs on your computer.

A desktop trade journal built for futures traders — whether you're running a prop firm eval, a funded account, or your own live capital. Works offline. Analyzes your edge. Lives on your machine.

$0
per month, ever
100%
Runs offline
23
Futures instruments
Trades & accounts
Prism Journal dashboard with P&L stats, recent trades, win rate
Calendar view with daily P&L colored green for wins, red for losses
Statistics page with Trader Profile spider chart and Prism Score 73.9
The problem

You're paying too much for tools that aren't yours to keep.

Chart feed, news feed, data feed, eval fee, journal fee. Every month you pay people to hold a read-only mirror of decisions you already made. Prism Journal is the mirror you own.

The spreadsheet

Your Notion doc

Free — until it's not
  • ? Every new metric means rewriting formulas
  • ? No screenshots, equity curve, or calendar view
  • ? Breaks the moment you switch firms or go live
  • ? Abandoned by month three. You know this.
The subscription

Other Trade Journals

$30–$50 / month, forever
  • × Your data lives on their servers
  • × Built for stocks, retrofitted for futures
  • × Payment lapses = locked out of your own data
  • × 12 months in, you've already overpaid for life
The answer

Prism Journal

$39.99 once, yours forever
  • Installs on your machine. Works offline.
  • Built for prop firm & live-account futures
  • Your data is a file on your drive
  • Every feature earns its place
Who it's for

Built for the way you trade.

Whether you're running a prop firm evaluation, day trading NQ futures from your funded account, or swinging ES contracts overnight — Prism Journal is the trade journal that keeps your edge visible without a monthly bill.

Prop firm traders

Running an Apex Trader Funding eval, a TopstepX combine, an MFFU account, or any other prop firm evaluation? Prism Journal tracks every trade against your daily loss limit and shows your buffer in real-time. Imports trade history directly from TopstepX (ProjectX) — works offline so connectivity issues never fail you mid-evaluation.

Day traders

Scalping NQ, ES, MNQ, MES, CL, or GC? Prism categorizes every trade by continuation or reversal model, calculates your R-multiple per setup, and surfaces patterns across hundreds of trades. The day trade journal that keeps your edge visible — locally, on your computer, without a subscription.

Swing traders

Multi-day positions with chart screenshots attached and tagged for review. Equity curves segmented by model type so you know which playbook is working and which is decaying. Your swing trading journal — offline, owned, no cloud lock-in.

Funded futures traders

Bulk-import every trade from your Tradovate, Rithmic R|Trader, or Quantower account. Run unlimited accounts in one journal — eval, funded, live capital — without paying $40/month per seat to a cloud journal that locks your data behind a paywall.

Switching from another trade journal?

Same insights, no monthly fee, no cloud sync. Pay $39.99 once and own your trade journal forever. Import your existing CSV history, keep your trade record, lose the $30-50/month subscription. The trade journal alternative built for futures traders specifically.

Offline-first traders

Want a trade journal that works without internet? Prism contacts our servers exactly once — when you first activate a new install. After that, every trade you log, every screenshot you attach, every analysis you run lives entirely on your computer. No cloud sync, no broker API, no surveillance. Your journal, your data, your decisions.

Supports 23 futures instruments across CME, COMEX, NYMEX, and CBOT exchanges — NQ, MNQ, ES, MES, YM, MYM, RTY, M2K, EMD, NKD, VX, GC, MGC, SI, SIL, CL, MCL, NG, ZN, ZB, ZT, ZF, ZC, ZS, ZW, 6E, 6J, 6B, 6A, BTC, ETH and more. CSV import works with TopstepX (ProjectX), Tradovate, Rithmic R|Trader, Quantower, plus any custom CSV format from NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart, Interactive Brokers, or other futures platforms.

What's inside

Every feature a futures trader actually uses.

Risk management, R-multiple tracking, model separation, pattern recognition. Done properly — whether you're on an eval, a funded account, or trading your own capital.

Track trades across unlimited accounts

Run three evals, a funded account, and your personal live capital all at once. Prism Journal keeps every account separate and switches between them instantly.

Toggle Combined View to see your full performance across every account — or drill into just one. Same data, different lenses.

Active account Topstep 50K · Funded
Apex 100K · Eval +$3,240
Topstep 50K · Funded +$22,741
Live · Personal +$8,412
Combined +$34,393

In-depth statistical insights

Win rate, profit factor, expectancy, max drawdown, Sharpe ratio, R-multiple splits, per-model performance. Every metric a serious trader needs, computed correctly.

Avg Win RR
+3.20R
Avg Loss RR
−0.98R

Prism Score — see where you excel, where you don't

A 0–100 composite rating across Win Rate, Risk/Reward, Consistency, Profitability, and Recovery.

The spider chart shows your strongest and weakest axes at a glance — so you know exactly what to work on before your next session.

Win Rate Risk/Reward Consistency Profitability Recovery 78 B+ GRADE

Clean P&L calendar

Every trading day colored by outcome. Spot winning streaks, tilt-Fridays, and the Mondays you should have stayed in bed — all at a glance.

April +$22,741
+820
+1.2K
−420
+2.1K
+480
+1.8K
+3.2K
+620
−510
+1.1K
+4.3K
+880
+2.6K
+920
+3.8K

Your tags, saved forever

Prism Journal remembers every tag you've ever used. Sort and filter every trade by common themes, setups, and confluences — across every account, across every month.

A+ setup revenge patient entry news driven trend day morning session

Screenshots with every trade

Drop in your entry chart, exit chart, and any setup screenshots. Stored locally, thumbnailed in the trade list, full-size on click. Your review sessions finally have visual context — the one thing a spreadsheet can never give you.

Import from your broker — or anywhere

Bulk-import trade history straight from your broker's CSV export. TopstepX (ProjectX), Tradovate, Rithmic R|Trader, Quantower — and any other broker via flexible custom mapping.

Already have data from another journal? Every account, every trade, every screenshot, every tag — all portable in a single .prism file. Back it up to Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, a USB stick. Your data, your choice, your control.

Broker CSV Import
TopstepX · Tradovate · Rithmic · Quantower
Auto-detects format · skips duplicates
Backup Export
prism_backup_2026.prism
247 trades · 4 accounts · 82 screenshots
Pricing

One price. No upsells, no limits, no expirations.

Every feature unlocked. Unlimited trades. Free updates throughout v1.x. Founding price holds for 60 days — after that it goes up, but not for you.

Founding Price · Limited

Pay once. Own it forever.

No feature gets moved behind a paywall later. No subscription will ever appear. If you buy at the founding price, you keep it at that price — permanently.

  • Every feature, unlocked. No tiers.
  • Unlimited trades and unlimited accounts
  • Free updates throughout v1.x
  • 7-day money-back guarantee
$ 39 .99

One-time payment. $69.99 after launch

Get Prism Journal

Windows only at launch · Mac & Linux coming soon

Compare: $40/mo × 12 months × forever.

Answers

The questions you're actually asking.

No marketing fluff. If you're reading this, you've already seen a dozen pitches like ours. Here's what matters.

Does this work for live-account traders too, or is it just for prop firms?
Both. The daily loss limit feature is built around prop firm rules, but it works just as well as a self-imposed cap for live-account traders managing their own risk. Multi-account support handles any mix of evals, funded accounts, and personal live accounts.
Is this really a one-time payment?
Really one-time. The founding price goes up to $69.99 after the launch window — but if you bought at $39.99, you keep the app at that price forever. No subscription will ever appear. No feature gets moved behind a paywall later.
Is my trade data safe if it's stored locally?
Your data is safer locally. It's a file on your drive, protected by your OS's disk encryption if you have it enabled. No cloud company can lose, leak, or be breached out of it. Automatic timestamped backups run in the background every time you make a change.
Does it work on Mac or Linux?
Windows only at launch. Mac and Linux builds are planned for v1.5+ once the Windows release validates. Most futures traders use Windows because the major prop firm and trading platforms (NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart, Apex, TopstepX) are Windows-only — many Mac users in this niche already run Parallels or VMware to host a Windows trading environment, and Prism Journal works there too. If you're a Mac user who'd buy on day one of a native Mac release, email [email protected] with the subject "Mac version interest" — that's the signal that bumps it up the roadmap.
Does it connect to my broker?
No. And that's intentional. Broker API integrations add dependencies and security surface area that justify a subscription. Prism Journal is a journaling tool — log trades as you take them. Takes 20 seconds per trade and puts you back in contact with your own decisions.
Who built this?
A futures trader who got tired of other trade journals charging for features nobody touches and tracking metrics that don't matter for futures. Built for futures traders, by a futures trader. Every feature in Prism Journal exists because a real trader needed it on Monday morning.
What if I buy it and it's not for me?
Email for a full refund within 7 days. No forms, no friction, no "tell us why." You keep your trade data as a .prism file you can open in any text editor. You never lose your work.
What futures instruments are supported?
NQ, MNQ, ES, MES, YM, MYM, RTY, M2K, CL, MCL, NG, GC, MGC, SI, SIL, ZN, ZB, ZT, ZF, ZC, ZS, ZW, 6E, 6J, 6B — 23 instruments with correct point values out of the box. Additional instruments can be added in minutes.

Stop renting. Start keeping.

One payment. One file. One journal that survives every broker change, every subscription cancellation, every internet outage. Your trades, on your machine, under your control.

Get Prism Journal — $39.99
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