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Everything about keeping a trading journal. Prop-firm rules, the habits, and what changed in Vink.
Each post opens on its answer. The prose under it is the proof.
28 Sep 2026 · Jinne Vinkesteijn · 8 min read
How to pass a prop firm challenge without blowing it on day three
A prop firm challenge can end in one bad afternoon, even when your strategy is working. Size every trade so your worst realistic day stays well inside the daily loss limit, set your own daily limit at half of it, decide in advance when you walk away, and review every week to find what costs you most.
- The rule you can break in a day
- The daily loss limit
- Size for
- Your worst losing streak, not your average day
- Your own daily limit
- Half the firm's
- The target
- Reached by staying in the challenge, not by rushing
7 Sep 2026 · Jinne Vinkesteijn · 7 min read
Rotating trades across prop accounts: the same losses, without losing the account
Prop firms measure you per account, and a breach is permanent. Rotate your trades across several accounts and a five-loss day lands as two, two and one instead of five in a row. The losses are identical. Only one version of them ends an account.
- What rotation is
- Each trade goes to the next account in a set, in turn
- What it changes
- Which threshold absorbs which loss, never the total
- What it costs
- Every account moves toward its target more slowly
- Vink models
- Named rotations, a next-up pointer, advancing on the trade
31 Aug 2026 · Jinne Vinkesteijn · 8 min read
How to use Vink: from your first trade to your weekly review
Vink turns your trades into feedback you can act on, in two worlds: a Simple one for logging in seconds, and a Detailed one for the full picture. This guide walks the whole loop, task by task, from setting up your accounts and logging a trade off a screenshot to reading it back and running your weekly review.
- Two worlds
- Simple for fast logging, Detailed for full analysis
- The loop
- Capture every trade, read it back, change one thing
- Start here
- Set up an account, then log your first trade
- Honest by design
- It nudges and measures; it never trades for you
31 Aug 2026 · Jinne Vinkesteijn · 10 min read
How to keep a trading journal (and actually use it)
Most new traders either skip a journal or keep a lifeless log of profit and loss, and neither one teaches you anything. A real trading journal captures every trade while it is fresh, in risk terms, with the reason you took it and how it felt. Then you read it back, find the one leak costing you most, and fix that. Here is how.
- The habit
- Log every trade the same day, before the memory fades
- Three parts
- Capture it, read it back, then change one thing
- The unit
- Score in R, not just dollars, so every trade compares
- Most skipped
- The mental side. Why you took it, and how it felt
18 Aug 2026 · Jinne Vinkesteijn · 6 min read
Static or trailing? The drawdown rule that decides how you size every trade
Static drawdown measures from your starting balance and never moves. Trailing drawdown follows your highest point, so profit raises the floor underneath you. Same headline percentage, different rule — and on a trailing account a winning week can leave you with less room than you started with.
- The question
- Does my floor move when I make money?
- Static
- Floor fixed at starting balance minus the limit
- Trailing
- Floor follows the account's high-water mark
- Vink models
- Static, and trailing on closed balances
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