Rithmic Trading Journal

Rithmic is not a trading platform in the way NinjaTrader or Tradovate are. It is the order routing and market data infrastructure that sits underneath them. When TopStep, Apex, Bulenox, or Leeloo give you a funded account, the orders often flow through Rithmic servers. R|Trader Pro is the direct Rithmic front-end, but most traders use NinjaTrader or other platforms connected to Rithmic feeds.

This matters for journaling because Rithmic captures the raw execution data. Every fill, every partial, every timestamp down to the millisecond. It is the most granular record of what actually happened in your account. But granularity without analysis is just noise. A list of fills does not tell you whether you followed your rules. It does not flag that your third entry on ES violated your scaling plan, that your total risk exposure exceeded the daily limit, or that you were still in a position when the Rithmic session closed.

Vigil takes your Rithmic fill data -- exported as CSV from R|Trader Pro or any Rithmic-connected platform -- and runs a full compliance audit. The AI engine pairs entries with exits, calculates realized P&L, and checks every trade against your prop firm rules. It handles the Rithmic B/S abbreviations, multi-account exports, and missing date columns that make Rithmic CSVs tricky to parse manually.