MetaTrader 4 Trading Journal

MetaTrader 4 remains the default platform for forex and CFD prop firm evaluations. FTMO, FundedNext, Blue Guardian, and dozens of other firms run their challenges on MT4. If you trade forex with a prop firm, you almost certainly have an MT4 account.

MT4 gives you execution. It shows your open trades, your account history, your equity curve. What it does not give you is accountability. It will not tell you that you exceeded your 5% daily loss limit at 14:23 GMT, that your lot size on GBPUSD was 2x your maximum plan, or that you held through NFP when your rules said to flatten. These are the violations that blow funded accounts, and MT4 has zero interest in catching them for you.

Vigil connects directly to your MT4 account through MetaAPI and pulls your trades automatically. No CSV exports, no copy-pasting, no forgetting to journal. Every trade lands in Vigil and gets checked against your personal trading rules and your prop firm constraints. The AI audit flags exactly where you deviated from your plan, how much those deviations cost you, and what patterns keep repeating. If you are running an FTMO challenge on MT4, Vigil tracks your compliance against their exact daily loss and drawdown limits in real-time. It is the compliance layer that MT4 was never built to provide.