Prop-firm trading journalYour firm’s rules, modelled — and the ones that are not.
Most journals let you write your firm’s rules on a tag and call it prop-firm support. Vink models them: a profit target with real progress, a drawdown floor measured the way the firm measures it, a daily loss limit, and phase chains across as many accounts as you are running. Below is every rule it models, and the four it does not — before you sign up, not after.
The rulebookRead your own rules back.
Left, the rule as a firm writes it. Right, what Vink does with it. Every rule below is modelled — computed against your account’s own numbers, not written on a tag you filter by. What it does not model is stated straight after, before you sign up.
Your account fails if the balance falls more than X% below where it started.
Stated by every firm, and measured two incompatible ways.
Vink models the static rule — the floor sits at your starting balance minus the limit and does not move when the account makes money, which is the FTMO-style evaluation this was built around. Every screen that reports how much room you have left computes it from that fixed floor.
Reach +X% to clear the phase.
Usually 8–10% on a challenge, less on verification.
Progress is your net P&L against the target, on the dashboard and on the account itself. Clearing it is detected rather than announced by you: the account is marked passed and carries that mark into the next phase.
Lose more than X in one day and the account is gone, even if the overall drawdown is fine.
The rule that ends most evaluations.
Set the limit and Vink tracks the day against it, keeps a discipline streak, and can let a peer you choose see whether you kept to it.
It cannot stop you trading and does not pretend to. A journal is not your broker. When you hit the limit it says so and stays out of the way — including letting you log the loss that just hit it, which is the moment a journal is most worth having.
Challenge → Verification → Funded, each with its own target and limits.
Balances and rules change at every step.
Each phase is its own account, chained to the one it continues from. Passing archives the previous phase and carries the chain forward, so a funded account still knows the evaluation it came out of — and your stats read the whole chain or one link of it.
Not a rule — the normal situation. Two challenges, a verification and a funded account, side by side.
Each with different sizes, currencies and limits.
Accounts are first-class, not a filter bolted on: their own currencies, their own limits, an explicit rotation telling you which one the next trade belongs to, and every statistic scopable to one account or all of them.
Know what you were holding when high-impact news landed.
Restricted outright by some firms, merely fatal at others.
A week view with impact and currency filters, high-impact events matched against each trade’s whole lifetime — before entry, during, after exit — plus a news-day filter and a “by news” cut in your stats.
Not in any rulebook — the only question that matters.
Everything above is scorekeeping for this one.
Vink puts the trades you have already taken on that account through 100,000 simulated runs against its own target and drawdown, and reports how often it passes, fails, or is still open at the end. Not a generic model — your history, those rules. An estimate, and labelled as one wherever it appears. Illustrative
Still to comeTwo rules it doesn’t compute yet.
Both are wanted and neither is built. They are here rather than buried because the first one decides whether Vink fits your account today — and finding that out after forty logged trades is worse than knowing now.
The floor that follows your highest point
Common on futures evaluations. Vink doesn’t model a trailing floor yet, so on a trailing account it understates your risk today — by more the better the account is doing. It is a real gap rather than a decision on principle, and it is on the list. Until it lands, the rest of the journal still serves you; keep your firm’s dashboard as the authority on how much room is left. The difference, in full.
No single day worth more than X% of total profit
Not tracked as a rule yet. The P&L calendar and your daily figures already show the shape of the profit clearly enough to eyeball — what is missing is Vink telling you, unprompted, that one day is carrying the account.
Everything above runs on trades you logged in seconds, because Vink reads them off a TradingView screenshot rather than asking you to type them. How the capture works.
Free while it is in betaNo card, no trial clock, no trade cap.
There is no billing in Vink today and no plan to charge during the beta. Three things are already written into the terms: notice before anything is ever charged, an export that works today, and a delete that really deletes. The pricing page says the rest out loud.
Not on a prop account? Everything above except the phase chains works the same on your own capital — the targets and limits are just numbers you set, and most of Vink was built for the trader trying to find out what actually works.