for funded futures traders

Eats the tape.
Not your account.

Your prop firm's rules on screen as live distances, the day's structure from CME data, and a scorecard that grades you against your own fills.

Describes conditions. Reflects your own arithmetic. Never tells you to trade.

altimeter

Distance to every rule

Topstep XFA · 50K · example
To max loss limitfloor −$1,000
$1,550
trails end-of-day · locks at $0 after +$2,000
To daily loss limittoday −$450
$550
$1,000 DLL · flattens, not a violation
Contractscap 2 at EOD $1,000
2 / 2
next step: 3 lots above $1,500 · next session
Flat by 3:10 PM CT14:40
30 min
consistency 34% of cycle · 2 of 5 winning days
positive gammainside the wallsmiddle-third entries reach a wall 1% of the time
fills synced 09:41:12 · ProjectXevery number is yours; nothing here is advice
three panels, one screen

Made for the account you're trying to keep.

the rules
Altimeter

Height above the floor. Trailing drawdown, daily loss limit, contract cap, consistency and the flat-by clock, as live distances, for your firm's exact plan.

Topstep · Apex · Tradeify · Alpha Futures · TPTpresets, checked against the firm's published rules
the tape
Levels

Dealer walls, gamma flip, expected move and the regime flag from CME futures options. Every level carries its distance in ATR and the odds it gets reached today.

wall inside 0.5 EM → reached 67% of days345 sessions, 2024–2026, ES
the record
Blackbox

Your fills, stamped with the market state at entry and exit. Expectancy, MAE, win rate by regime, session and trade-number-of-the-week. Are you improving, or lucky?

R-multiples, not dollarsdollars measure sizing, not skill
the state · trader and pro plans

Everything that moved the needle in three years of dialing it in. Nothing that didn't.

One screen, read top to bottom in under a minute before the open: what regime you are in, where the levels are and whether they are in reach, how the tape is leaning, what is on the calendar, how fast you are trading, and how you are doing. Signals, not a data dump.

Dealer gamma
Positive
+5bn · building 8 d/d · dip-buy regime strengthening
Liquidity
Expanding
NL 5,917B · 20d +124B · TGA 818B injecting
Session phase
Pre-open
RTH in 41 min · witching week · 4-day week
Read
Fade dips
pinned book, EM tight (1.2 ATR): expect a band tag, not a trend
LevelsES · 06:30 CT · distance in ATR · reach odds
7,728+1 EM+0.6 EM · tag 65%
7,715Call wall · 5.0bn+0.4 EM · reach 67%
7,713240m EMAfalling −3 / 3 sess
7,694Pocket R7,676–7,694
7,673Spot0.5 ATR under the EMA
7,657Pocket Sin the buy zone
7,618−1 EMtag 25%
7,540Put wall · 0.7bn−2.9 EM · reach 1%

Gamma flip 7,130 · between the walls a middle-third entry reaches a wall 1% of days · NDX book positive, flip 27,696.

TapeES · pit and 240m
240m EMA slopefalling −3.03 sessions60m EMA sloperising +10RTHPit EMA 15/30m7,665 / 7,656price below3/10 divergencein linestretch +0.2 ATRDaily patternNR7contraction → expansionRange expansion↑7,711 / ↓7,624100% of Fri 29p5-day ATR58pRTHPinball 2ROC77 ↑overbought, risingEM / ATR1.2band-tag day
Breadth & flow09:52 CT · live
SPX put/call0.85call-heavy · z −2.4 spikeVOLD+1.8Bup-volume leading · 68th pctSector breadth8 / 11 greentech, discretionary leadVehicle strengthQQQ 53 › GLD 42 › ES 39 › IWM 20RMISemis · Mag-7560.3 · 69.2SMH · MAGS10y · vol4.94 · 18.9TNX · VXXCluster phasepost-dipA-leg odds 39.5% vs 29.8Drift gate0 downno drift edge
Calendarwhat can move you
Wed 05:30Retail SalesHIGH
Wed 11:00FOMC decisionBAN DAY
Sep 15TGA: quarterly taxes inDRAIN
Sep 24COST earningsVOL
This weekWitching · 4-day weekFLAGS
Seasonal (STA)57 · neutralMonAlmanac lenses55 / 50 / 53composite 52Setup densitySep richwk2 mid · ~1/wk
Trade pacedescriptive, never a block
4this week · your ceiling 2–3
week
4 / 2–3 · OVER
month
7 / 10–12
after 10:30
2 · −0.40R avg

Your fourth trade of the week averages −0.12R. Your first three average +0.55R. The line is yours; we only draw it.

Pilotopt-in · Apple Watch / Oura
Heart rate
103
HRV
37 ms
Room
37 dB

Elevated, top decile of your own baseline. On days like this your MAE runs 1.4× normal. Know it before you click.

altimeter

The rule lives in a PDF. The breach happens on screen.

One trailing-drawdown touch ends a funded account. Tapeworm keeps every rule as a number that moves with your open P&L, so "how much room do I have" is never a calculation you do in your head at 2:58.

  • Trailing max loss, end-of-day or intraday, exactly as your firm computes it
  • Daily loss limit, contract scaling by balance, consistency ratio
  • Minutes to flat-by, counted down
Topstep XFA 50K  2026-09-12  14:40 CT
balance now       $550     (EOD peak $1,000)
max loss floor    −$1,000  room $1,550
daily loss limit  −$1,000  room $550   today −$450
contracts         2 / 2    at cap      next step $1,500
consistency       34%      target ≤ 40%
winning days      2 / 5    ($150+ each)
flat by           15:10    30 min
ES · 06:30 CT · positive gamma
call wall   7,715   +0.4 EM   reach today 67%
+1 EM       7,728   +0.6 EM   tag odds   65%  (EM 1.2 ATR)
240m EMA    7,713
spot        7,673   0.5 ATR under the EMA
−1 EM       7,618
put wall    7,540   −2.9 EM   reach today 1%
between the walls: a middle-third entry reaches a wall before returning to entry 1% of days
levels

A level is only a level if it's in reach.

Most published walls sit two or three expected moves away and never print. We measured it: every level shows its distance and the historical odds it gets touched today, so you know which ones are targets and which ones are decoration.

  • Futures-native: gamma from ES, NQ, RTY options, not an SPX proxy
  • Regime flag: gamma sign × liquidity × session phase
  • Nothing here says buy or sell. It says where, and how often.
blackbox

Grades you against you.

Every fill is stamped with what the screen showed at the moment you clicked. After thirty trades you can see which conditions you actually make money in, and which ones you only think you do.

  • Read-only sync from ProjectX, Tradovate, Rithmic, NinjaTrader export, CSV
  • Expectancy and MAE by regime, session, gate, trade number of the week
  • Cells under 30 trades are not reported. Small samples lie.
last 60 trades · R-multiples
positive gamma   n=38   +0.42R   win 58%   MAE 0.6R
negative gamma   n=22   −0.31R   win 36%   MAE 1.1R
first 3 trades / wk n=27  +0.55R
trade 4+ / wk     n=33   −0.12R
after 10:30 CT    n=19   −0.40R
pace this week: 4 trades · your norm 5
blackbox · free and paid

Most traders don't journal. Fine. Sync it and we'll journal you.

Prop account or your own. Every fill lands stamped with the state of the screen at the click, so the scorecard writes itself. Your data stays yours: export it any time, in a format Tradervue and a spreadsheet both read.

Bring your fillsread-only · never routes
TopstepX ProjectX
Tradovate API
NinjaTrader export
Rithmic API
Tradovate CSV
IBKR Flex
Tradervue import
CSV any

Own account, no prop firm? Connect the broker or drop a CSV. The Altimeter simply shows your limits instead of a firm's.

export CSVexport Tradervueexport JSONdelete everything
Septembernet R by day · click a day for the fills
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Month+6.8R11 days · 7 greenWorst day−2.1R · Sep 83 trades after 10:30, negative gammaConsistency34%largest day / cycle
By regimelast 60 · R
positive gamma+0.42Rn 38 · win 58%negative gamma−0.31Rn 22 · win 36%inside the walls−0.18Rn 29at a level+0.61Rn 31
By timesession · R
06:30–08:00+0.48Rn 3408:00–10:30+0.09Rn 17after 10:30−0.40Rn 19Mon · Fri+0.2 · −0.3n 11 · 12
ExcursionMAE / MFE
median MAE0.6Rwinners 0.3Rmedian MFE1.4Ryou bank 0.7R of itstop hit then target22%stop too tight?notes · tags · shotson every fill

Cells under 30 trades are hidden. Small samples flatter everyone.

pricing

Less than one reset fee.

free
$0
  • Levels, 15-minute delayed
  • Journal and scorecard
  • One broker connection
Start free
trader
$49/month
  • Real-time levels and regime
  • Altimeter with your firm's rules
  • Full scorecard by regime and session
  • Alerts on buffer thresholds
Apply for early access
pro
$99/month
  • Everything in Trader
  • Level history and archive queries
  • Multiple accounts and firms
Apply for early access

Firm seats are priced per trader, annually, bundled with funded accounts. Talk to us.

for prop firms

Every breach is a ticket, a dispute and a churned trader.

Tapeworm puts your rules in front of your traders as live distances, next to the market context that explains why today is a day to size down. Fewer breaches, fewer support hours, better retention.

  • 01
    Not an affiliate.We do not send traders to firms for a bounty. You license a risk tool; your affiliate exposure does not change.
  • 02
    Your plan, exactly.Trailing mechanics, scaling, consistency and payout rules modeled from your published terms and checked against real statements.
  • 03
    Aggregate insight.Where your traders breach, by regime and session, anonymised. The view nobody else can give you.

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early access

Thirty seats. Blown accounts welcome.

The first version goes to thirty funded or recently unfunded futures traders who will use it daily and tell us where it is wrong. Free while it's rough. Tell us what happened.

We read every application. No autoresponder.

Your fills stay yours. Encrypted at rest, deleted on request, never shared with a firm.