How to Export the Sierra Chart Trade Activity Log (No Plugin Needed)

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Step-by-step: exporting from Sierra Chart

In Sierra Chart: (1) open the Trade menu → Trade Activity Log. (2) Set the date range you want to journal. (3) Use the log's export option to write the activity to a file — Sierra emits a delimited file with columns like Trade Type, Trade Quantity, Entry DateTime, Exit DateTime, and Entry/Exit Price. (4) Save it as .csv or .txt — the importer reads both.

Auto-detected on drop

The importer fingerprints Sierra's header shape — the Entry DateTime / Exit DateTime pair plus the Trade Type + Trade Quantity + Entry/Exit Price column set — so there is no manual column mapping for the standard export. Detection is whitespace-insensitive, so Entry DateTime and Entry Date Time both work.

Edited the file in Excel first? Still fine.

A lot of traders open the export in Excel to redact an account number before sharing or importing — and Excel silently rewrites timestamps into single-digit-hour forms like 5/13/2026 9:35 that naively parse as invalid dates. The importer zero-pads and normalizes these before pairing, so your trades still sort chronologically and longs/shorts pair correctly. This exact failure mode came from real traders' files; it's handled.

What you get from the preview

Win rate, total P&L, average R (when the export carries enough to derive risk, or from your default risk), your biggest losing day, and a trade-by-trade equity curve — computed from your file, free, before any account exists. From there, one click moves the parsed trades into a free journal where the full review stack applies: per-setup R expectancy, time-of-day breakdowns, playbook, and psychology tags.