How to Export Your Tradovate CSV (and See Your Stats in 10 Seconds)

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.

Step-by-step: exporting from Tradovate

In the Tradovate web or desktop platform: (1) open the Reports section from the main menu. (2) Choose the Orders report (or Fills — both work, see below). (3) Pick your date range — a month, a quarter, or your whole account history. (4) Click the download/export button to save the report as a CSV file. That's the entire export: one file with one row per order, including timestamps, contract, side, quantity, fill price, and — in the Orders report — your stop and limit prices.

Orders CSV vs Fills CSV — which one?

Use the Orders CSV if you can. It includes your stop prices, which lets a journal compute the R-multiple of each trade automatically (how much you made or lost as a multiple of what you risked). The Fills CSV is slightly cleaner but carries no stops, so R has to come from a default-risk setting instead. If you have both, import Orders — you get better analytics for the same drag-and-drop.

What happens when you drop the file below

The drop-zone on this page runs the same importer as the Aurafy journal: it auto-detects the Tradovate format, pairs your buy/sell executions into closed trades with a FIFO stack (partial fills and scale-outs handled), parses Tradovate's accounting-format fees like $(8.50) correctly, and computes win rate, total P&L, average R, and your equity curve — client-side preview, free, no signup. If you like what you see, one click moves the parsed trades into a free account; if not, the file is discarded.

Common export problems

File too big? Export a shorter date range and drop it again: the preview takes files up to 2 MB. Opened it in Excel first? That is fine, Aurafy normalizes the timestamps Excel rewrites (like 6/1/26 9:35) so trades still pair correctly. Unusual columns? Send us the file and we will add the format.

After the import: actually journaling

Stats are the hook; the habit is the payoff. Once your Tradovate history is in, tag each trade with a setup and an emotion (three seconds per trade), check the per-tag R expectancy weekly, and use the futures P&L calculator when planning size. The how-to-journal guide covers the minimal workflow that survives real trading.