Add an account you're already trading

You don't have to start a fresh account to use Ink. If you've been trading one already, tell Ink where it stands today, and the difference from the starting balance counts as prior P&L.

#Set it up

On the last step (Details), under Balance, choose Already trading:

• Current balance — the account's balance now. Ink keeps it between the fail level and the target.
• Current max-loss floor (trailing and end-of-day plans) — the floor your firm's dashboard shows. Ink works out the peak the account reached from it, so the floor is exact from day one. Blank: Ink takes today's balance as the peak, and marks the drawdown an estimate.
• Days traded so far — trading days you've already done. On an evaluation they count toward the min days. On a funded account, payout days still count from today.

An existing account: edit it and set Opening balance (optional) — the balance when you started logging it in Ink. Raising it never lowers the peak Ink stored.

Example (made-up numbers). A 50K evaluation with a $3,000 target, now at $52,500 → prior P&L +$2,500, $500 left to the target. With a $2,000 end-of-day max loss and the floor at $51,000 on the firm's dashboard: peak $53,000, room to max loss $1,500. If the plan's floor stops at $50,100, a $51,000 floor is past that lock: locked at $50,100, room $2,400.

#What prior P&L counts toward

• Your balance and profit target: yes — it's real progress on the account.
• Drawdown: from the floor you entered; without one, Ink takes your balance when you joined as the peak and marks trailing and end-of-day results an estimate. A static floor isn't affected. An intraday floor stays an estimate either way — it moves with open profit Ink can't see.
• Consistency: no — Ink doesn't know how that profit split across days, so it measures only the trades you've logged.
• Daily loss: no — it comes from the trades you've logged.

Importing past trades that already include this profit? Choose New instead, so it isn't counted twice.

See Drawdown and Consistency.