Importing trades

Bring trades in from Tradovate, TopstepX or MetaTrader 5, or log them by hand.

  1. Import from TradovateBring your Tradovate fills into Ink with the Performance report (recommended) or the Orders export.
  2. Import from TopstepXImport your TopstepX trades export — each row becomes one trade, with its fees and commissions.
  3. How fills become tradesPartial fills, scaling in and out, flips and open positions — how Ink builds round-trip trades and their P&L.
  4. Import from MetaTrader 5Import your MT5 History report into a CFD & Forex account, with MT5's own profit, commission and swap.
  5. Time zones: how Ink reads your file's clockInk keeps every trade in New York time. Here's how it converts Tradovate and TopstepX times, and why it matters.
  6. Duplicates and re-importingImport the same file twice and nothing doubles. Growing files, mixed formats, possible duplicates, and undoing an import.
  7. Log a trade by handEnter a trade that isn't in a broker file — as a result (fast) or with its exact fills — then the journal notes, with Log trade.
  8. Log one trade to several accountsTrading the same idea on several prop accounts? Log it once and Ink saves a copy on each — with each account's own size. Pro.