Importing trades from Tradovate

No need to type your trades in by hand. Export your orders from Tradovate as a CSV file, upload it to your trading account, and your journal builds the trades for you — with entry, exit, size, P&L and the individual fills.

This also works if you trade with a prop firm that uses Tradovate (such as MyFundedFutures), and if you place your orders from TradingView with Tradovate as the connected broker: those orders are simply in your Tradovate export.

Step 1: create a trading account

Every import belongs to an account in your journal. If you already have one for this Tradovate account, skip this step.

1. Go to Trading → Accounts.

2. Click New account.

3. Give it a recognisable name (for example the name of your evaluation account), choose Tradovate as the Broker and click Create.

Step 2: export your orders from Tradovate

1. Log in to Tradovate (web or desktop).

2. Open Account Reports and choose the Orders tab.

3. Select the account and the period you want to import.

4. Download the report as CSV.

The file needs at least the columns B/S, Contract, Product, Status, Fill Time, Filled Qty and Avg Fill Price. Only orders with status Filled count; cancelled and rejected orders are skipped.

How to recognise the right file: the first line starts with orderId,Account,Order ID,B/S,Contract,Product.

Mind your time zone

Tradovate writes the times in the export without a time zone: it is the platform's clock time. The journal reads those times as Amsterdam time (Europe/Amsterdam). If your Tradovate is set to a different time zone, switch it to Amsterdam before exporting — otherwise your trades shift by an hour or more, and sometimes land on the wrong day.

Step 3: upload the file

1. Go back to Trading → Accounts.

2. Click Import on the right account.

3. Choose the CSV file and click Import.

You'll immediately see how many trades were imported and how many were skipped because they were already in your journal.

What the import does with your orders

• Fills become trades. Tradovate exports individual fills, not trades. The journal follows your position from open to flat: adding to a position and scaling out become one trade.

• Open positions are not imported (yet). A position that is still open at the end of the file is skipped. Import again once it's closed.

• We calculate the P&L using the instrument's point value. Commission is an estimate per contract, because the export doesn't list costs; if yours differs, adjust the trade.

• The individual fills are kept with the trade (executions). The import doesn't take over your stop-loss and take-profit (yet), even though those orders are in the export: add them to the trade yourself if you want to see your R-multiple.

• Importing twice does no harm. If you upload the same file (or an overlapping period) again, trades that are already there are skipped.

An example: a trading day with 35 orders, 20 of them filled, becomes 10 trades. Each trade is an entry and an exit; the 15 cancelled take-profit and stop orders drop out.

Unknown symbols

The journal knows the common futures, such as NQ, MNQ, ES, MES, YM, MYM, RTY, M2K, GC, MGC, SI, CL and NG. If you trade an instrument that isn't on the list, the import tells you. The P&L of such a trade may be wrong — check it and correct it by hand if needed, or let us know through support so we can add the instrument.

Undoing an import

Under Trading → Accounts you'll find the Import log tab: one line per upload, even when nothing came out of it. From the menu on a line, choose Revert import — the trades from that file are removed, together with their notes and tags. This can't be undone.

Not working?

• "No trades found": check that you downloaded the Orders report (not another report) and that positions were closed in the chosen period.

• "This file could not be read": download the report again and upload it without opening it in a spreadsheet first.

• Times are off: set the time zone in Tradovate to Amsterdam, revert the import from the import log and import again.

Still stuck? Send us a message through support and attach the CSV file.