TradeLocker Export Imported Nothing: Which File to Take Instead

Aurafy is a young, independent trading journal. It earns trust by keeping the local app usable without an account, making desktop data exportable, and being clear about which features are free and which require Pro.

Page updated September 2026

Which of the three files do you have?

Read the first line of your CSV. If it starts Time, Balance before, Balance after, Realized PnL you have the balance history. It records what your account balance did after each event, not what you traded, so entries and exits cannot be rebuilt from it. If it starts Symbol, Side, Quantity, Avg fill price, Take profit, Stop loss, Last price, Unrealized PnL you have your open positions. Those trades have not finished yet, so there is nothing closed to journal. If it starts Symbol, Side, Type, Quantity, Limit price, Stop price, Fill price, Status, Commission, Placing time, Closing time, Order ID you have the order history, and that is the one you want.

What the order history gives you

That file carries one row per order with the price it filled at, the time it was placed and the time it closed, the commission you actually paid, and an order id. Everything needed to pair your buys against your sells into closed round trips is in it. Because it states commission per row, your fees are the real ones rather than an estimate, which is the difference between a journal that matches your broker to the cent and one that is quietly off by a few percent. Export it for whatever date range you want and drop it in the box on this page to see the parsed result before creating anything.

The size trap, and why some rows are now refused

TradeLocker states position size in units of the underlying. Most other platforms, MetaTrader included, state it in lots. Nothing in the file says which convention it is using, and the two differ by a factor of 100,000 on a currency pair. Read as lots, a quantity of 50 on EURUSD turns a half cent scratch into a 550 dollar loss, and we have seen two real fills become a 66 million dollar loss in someone's journal. The file does carry the answer: the opening fill states Leverage and Margin, and margin multiplied by leverage and divided by price gives the true unit count. Aurafy now works that out per symbol before pairing anything, and where the two readings disagree by more than a factor of ten it refuses the rows and tells you rather than importing at a size the file never stated.

Prop firm accounts on TradeLocker

Several futures and CFD prop firms run their evaluations on TradeLocker, and the export path is the same. Two things worth doing once the trades are in. Keep each funded account and each evaluation as a separate account in the journal, so a blown eval does not contaminate the stats of the account you are actually being judged on. And set the real commission rate per account, because prop sim commissions are typically far above a retail default. An unset rate is the most common reason a prop trader's journal shows a profit their firm does not.

What to do if you already imported the wrong file

Nothing bad happened. A balance history and a positions export both produce zero trades, so there is nothing to clean up: just export the order history and import that. If you imported an order history and the sizes look wrong, delete those trades and re-import, because the size fix is applied at import time rather than retroactively. If you are unsure whether your existing numbers were affected, sort your trade log by profit and look at the extremes. An implausible number is the cheapest detector there is, and a real trading account does not produce one.