Interactive Brokers Trading Journal

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We are happy to announce that our trading journal now supports files from Interactive Broker. To import your trades, visit the import page and follow the instructions below:



There are three options to import:

Best option: Auto Import

Must have an active pro subscription.

Second option

Tradelog format


  • Go to your Interactive Brokers account

  • Choose Reports

  • Click Activity

  • Click Third-Party Downloads.

  • Select the time period, and choose the TradeLog format.

  • Upload the file that was downloaded (.tlg extension) file


Duplicates for this broker will be skipped for this option.

Here is a sample line that you can save to a notepad file to test:

STOCK_TRANSACTIONS
STK_TRD|4949494|BABA|ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING-SP ADR|NYSE|BUYTOOPEN|O|20190907|10:35:28|USD|50.00|1.00|140.20|8160.00|-1.00|1.00

If you can't find this file, please wait until later in the day or next day. It's not always available during market hours.

Third option

Flex Query

  • Go to your account management area.

  • Click reports, then flex queries.

  • Create a new query and name it Trademetria.

  • Under sections, select trade confirmation, then choose all columns.

  • On the same screen, make sure you change executions to orders.

  • Click continue, then click create.

  • Now, click run, choose CSV, your timeframe, and hit the run button.


Duplicates will be skipped automatically.

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