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. DuskAnalyst 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. DuskAnalyst'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 DuskAnalyst 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.