Jinne Vinkesteijn. Founder of Vink, trading since 2021.

Why Vink exists

I have traded since 2021, mostly forex, both on prop-firm accounts and my own capital. I built Vink because the journal I actually wanted did not exist. I was keeping trades in a spreadsheet, retyping every field off a chart I had just been staring at, and skipping the entries that mattered most on the days I least felt like typing. The record always had a hole in it exactly where the interesting trades were.

So Vink starts from the screenshot you already have and fills the ticket in from it, keeps the mental side of a trade next to the prices instead of in a separate diary nobody rereads, and measures everything in R so trades of different sizes actually compare. It is a trading journal for prop-firm and retail traders, and it tries to stay honest about what it can and cannot measure rather than overclaiming.

On this blog I write about the things that changed how I trade: keeping a journal you will actually maintain, understanding the drawdown rule your prop firm scores you on, and turning a pile of past trades into one change a week. No signals, no hype, just the working method.

Writing

• What to actually write in a trading journal (and what to leave out) · 12 Oct 2026
• The daily loss limit, and why setting it is not the hard part · 5 Oct 2026
• How to pass a prop firm challenge without blowing it on day three · 28 Sep 2026
• Rotating trades across prop accounts: the same losses, without losing the account · 7 Sep 2026
• How to use Vink: from your first trade to your weekly review · 31 Aug 2026
• How to keep a trading journal (and actually use it) · 31 Aug 2026
• Static or trailing? The drawdown rule that decides how you size every trade · 18 Aug 2026