A TopStep trading journal that keeps your Combine and XFA rules visible.

In a TopStep Combine you manage both a trailing drawdown and a daily loss limit, so you need to know your current drawdown before every trade, not after a red day. Dusk Analyst computes current drawdown and max drawdown from your closed trades, so you can see exactly how much room is left in the account. Win rate, profit factor and daily P&L are calculated automatically, and weekly reports show where the drawdown actually came from. In our 2026 audit we checked 356 brokers and prop firms one by one against their own sites, and the brokers table on our home page shows the evidence for each one.

Yes. The journal calculates your daily P&L for every trading day and flags days that approach or breach your configured daily loss limit, so a red morning doesn't silently turn into a blown Combine. You set the limit to match your account, and the same tracking carries into the XFA once you are funded. The journal is a record of your own numbers: it never places orders, changes charts or touches your indicators, and it never sees your broker password or login credentials. Data is stored on Cloudflare, identity is handled by Auth0, billing by Stripe, and the AI that answers your insight questions runs on DeepSeek.

Consistency is repeatable, rule-following execution rather than one giant winning day. A journal makes that measurable: win rate, profit factor, daily P&L distribution and your rule tags show whether results come from a repeatable process or from a few lucky trades. Dusk Analyst's AI insights let you ask questions of your own trade history, like which sessions or setups produce your losses, and weekly reports keep the pattern visible. Free covers two accounts with manual entry and CSV import at $0; Pro at $25 per month adds unlimited accounts, auto-sync, AI insights and full export.

It helps you know exactly where you stand, which removes a big part of evaluation failure: trading blind. The journal tracks drawdown, daily loss, profit factor, win rate and progress toward your profit target, so you can see when you are too close to a limit to keep trading. It does not guarantee passing an evaluation — no journal can — and Dusk Analyst is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by TopstepTrader. You still own the execution and the risk decisions; the journal just makes them visible.

On Free, log trades manually or import them from your platform via CSV — that is enough to track a full evaluation, and it costs $0 with no card required. If your TopStep accounts run on a supported terminal such as MT4, MT5 or cTrader, Pro at $25 per month auto-syncs every closed trade with unlimited accounts, AI insights and full export. Either way, only your closed trades and the account nickname leave the terminal. Data is stored on Cloudflare, identity is handled by Auth0, billing by Stripe, and the AI that answers your insight questions runs on DeepSeek.

Yes. The free tier costs $0 forever and includes two accounts, manual trade entry and CSV import - enough to journal a live account properly, with win rate, expectancy, drawdown and equity curve all calculated for you. There is no credit card required to start. Pro ($25/month flat) adds unlimited accounts, MT4/MT5/cTrader auto-sync, AI insights on your trading (1,000 trade-analyses a month), monthly reports and full export, and has a free trial of up to 30 days (card required). The pricing is deliberately simple: one plan, one price, no per-feature upsells.

Yes. Dusk Analyst Pro has a free trial of up to 30 days: 30 days if you start it within an hour of signing up, 15 days within 24 hours. A card is required to start it, nothing is charged on the day it starts, and when the trial ends Pro is $25/month unless you cancel. We email you a reminder before the trial ends. You can cancel anytime from Billing in the app; cancelling during the trial ends it straight away, nothing is charged, and your account goes back to the Free plan with every trade kept. There is one trial per account. The trial includes everything in Pro: MT4, MT5 and cTrader auto-sync, monthly reports, unlimited account books, 1,000 AI credits a month for AI Insights and CSV export. Start it in the app at app.duskanalyst.com, where it is offered whenever you open a Pro feature such as Connectors, and from the plan card in the sidebar. The Free plan is separate: it needs no card and stays free forever.

Yes - CSV import is available on every plan, including free. If you've been tracking trades in a spreadsheet, broker export or another journal, export the CSV from wherever it lives and import it into Dusk Analyst; the journal matches it against your accounts and keeps your history continuous. Import is also the fallback for platforms that don't run MT4, MT5 or cTrader. For MT4/MT5/cTrader terminals, Pro auto-syncs going forward and the EA backfills any trades your terminal missed while it was off. Any platform that exports a CSV of your trade history works. Dusk Analyst recognises TradingView, Tradovate, cTrader, MT4 and MT5 exports on sight; for anything else you map your columns once and that parser is saved for next time. Comma, semicolon and tab files are all handled, day-first and month-first dates are detected from the file itself, and any row that cannot be read is listed for you rather than dropped quietly.

Pro includes 1,000 AI trade-analyses every month. One credit covers one trade, so asking a question about a 40-trade week costs 40 credits and you can keep asking. The allowance resets on the 1st of each month and the counter sits in the top bar of the app, so you always know where you stand. Narrowing a question to one account or a shorter date range makes the same allowance go much further. Free accounts get a small number of AI credits to try AI Insights, alongside the full journal, analytics and weekly reports, and Pro's free trial (up to 30 days) includes the full monthly allowance.