How to Track Your Topstep Account

One of the longest-running futures funding programs.

Topstep is one of the best-known futures prop firms, funding traders who pass its evaluation and then trade a funded account under a set of risk rules. Because the model separates an evaluation phase from a funded phase — each with its own balance, drawdown, and payout terms — it is exactly the kind of setup that gets confusing to track in a spreadsheet, and clean to track in a dedicated journal.

What Topstep is known for

• A staged evaluation (the Trading Combine) before a funded account
• Futures-only: index, energy, metals, and micro contracts
• An established brand with a large trader community

Tracking your Topstep evaluation & funded account

Topstep uses a futuresfunding model, so the accounts you run map cleanly onto FundedView's account types:

• Prop Eval (Trading Combine)
• Prop Funded

Add each account once, then log trades against it. FundedView keeps every account's balance, win rate, average R, drawdown, eval fees paid, and payouts collected separate — then rolls them into one Total Capital view so you always know your real profit after Topstep's costs.

Why a journal matters more on a funded account

On a funded account, a losing trade you took on-plan and a losing trade you took after breaking your rules are two completely different problems — but a raw P&L number hides that. FundedView logs whether you followed your rules on every trade and categorizes rule breaks (revenge trading, moving a stop, oversizing), so the habit that's quietly threatening your Topstep account becomes visible before it costs you the account.