The Apex Trader Funding journal that tracks all your Evals.
Apex lets you run up to 20 Eval accounts at once. Most journals make managing them painful — one trade list, mixed PnL, lost context per account. GridTrade ships true multi-account support: each Eval gets its own balance, equity curve, and trade list, with unified analytics across all of them. Spot the patterns that span your portfolio. Find the leak before the trailing drawdown finds you.
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Why Apex traders specifically
1. True multi-account — for traders running 5+ Evals
Apex's whole model rewards running many accounts in parallel. GridTrade was designed around that: unlimited accounts in one journal, each with its own balance and equity curve, but unified filters and analytics across them. You can ask "what's my win rate on NQ at emotion ≥ 4 across ALL my 50k Evals?" — that's the cross-account insight that drives portfolio-level edge.
2. Daily PnL calendar — see the trailing-drawdown danger
The calendar view shows every day as a colored box: green for profit, red for loss. You spot the 3-day red streak that's eating into your trailing-drawdown buffer before it kills the account. Apex's trailing drawdown means your worst-case allowed loss shrinks as your equity grows — GridTrade's calendar makes that visual.
3. R-multiple per trade — futures-friendly
GridTrade auto-calculates R-multiple from entry, stop, and exit on every Apex contract (NQ, MNQ, ES, MES, RTY, GC, CL, etc.). Tick value and tick size are pre-loaded. Switch from micro to full-size? Same trade structure, different account, R-multiple is comparable across.
4. Emotion-per-trade as a structured field
Apex traders running many accounts face a unique problem: emotional intensity per trade is HIGHER because there's almost always one account close to failing. The emotion field (1-5) plus the filter system shows you when emotion-driven trades blow up the most: "show me my win rate on trades where I rated emotion ≥ 4 last month." Most traders see a 20-30% drop in win rate at high emotion. That's the leak.
5. Setup playbook with live expectancy
Build your playbook (Opening Range, Liquidity Sweep, FVG, Order Block, etc.). Each setup gets live win-rate and expectancy stats once you have ≥10 trades. The brutal lesson most Apex traders learn from this: 1-2 of their "favorite" setups are actually negative-expectancy. Cutting those is the fastest path to profitability.
How to journal your Apex Evals in GridTrade
5 minutes per Eval to set up. Then it scales — each new Eval is one more click.
- Step 1 — Add each Eval as a separate account. Name them clearly: "Apex Eval 50k #1", "Apex Eval 50k #2", "Apex PA 100k", etc. Starting balance + your personal max-loss threshold (Apex's trailing-drawdown rule + your buffer).
- Step 2 — Build a single shared setup playbook. The playbook lives across all accounts. You don't re-create setups per Eval. Stats per setup aggregate across all your Apex trades.
- Step 3 — Log every trade with its account. The trade form lets you pick which account it belongs to. Each trade gets entry, stop, exit, setup, valid/invalid, emotion 1-5, optional screenshot. R-multiple is auto-calculated.
- Step 4 — Daily review per account, weekly review across all. Per-account view shows current balance, drawdown distance, recent trades. Switch the filter to "all accounts" for the unified weekly review — which setup is paying you across the whole portfolio?
- Step 5 — When an Eval passes to PA — create a new account. Don't re-use the Eval account. Keep the Eval data archived; track the PA fresh. Compare the two later: was your behavior different when real payout was on the line?
FAQ — Apex & GridTrade
No — GridTrade is a journal, not a risk-management gateway. We surface the data (account balance, daily PnL, emotion-driven patterns) so you can see when you're approaching your trailing-drawdown buffer. Apex's own platform enforces the actual rule.
Yes. No artificial limit on account count. Run 8, 15, or all 20 if you really want to. The account-switcher is one click. The unified analytics across accounts is the key value-add at that scale.
The calendar view + daily PnL distribution makes consistency visible: you can see at a glance whether your profits are spread across multiple days or concentrated on 1-2 outliers. That's the data Apex uses to gate payouts — and seeing it in your journal helps you understand your own pattern before submitting a payout request.
GridTrade is platform-agnostic and manual-entry by design — works alongside any execution platform Apex supports. A CSV/statement import is on the roadmap for traders who want to bulk-import historical data.
Yes — just add separate accounts for each prop firm. See also: FTMO journal, Topstep journal, funded-account journal.
Legal & Trademark Notice
Trademarks: “Apex Trader Funding” and the Apex logo are trademarks of Apex Trader Funding LLC. GridTrade is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected to Apex Trader Funding. References to Apex are made under the right of comparative advertising (German UWG § 6 / EU Directive 2006/114/EC) and to describe compatibility with their publicly known rules.
Disclaimer: GridTrade is a journal/analytics tool. It does not provide trading signals, financial advice, or guarantees of success in any Apex program. Trading futures carries substantial risk. References to Apex rules (trailing drawdown, account sizes, consistency rule) reflect their publicly stated terms as of May 2026 — please verify current rules on apextraderfunding.com.
Last reviewed: 2026-05-22. · Operated by Fabian Lehmann (see Impressum).
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