Importing Your Trades

Rather than retyping trades, you bring them in from a CSV your broker already gives you. Trading Journal AI reads that export and turns it into one normalized trade format that the journal, charts, calendar, and reports all use.

How importing works

Behind the scenes, your file goes through a short pipeline so broker-specific quirks don't leak into the rest of the app:

Inspect the file to see its source and shape.
Normalize it with an adapter for that broker.
Preview the result with diagnostics and a confidence level.
Persist the trades and executions once the shape looks right.

In practice you export a CSV, point Import at it, and review the grouped trades — the fills for one position are grouped into a single trade with its executions tucked underneath, so you're not staring at a wall of rows.

Which brokers work

ThinkorSwim / Schwab — the strongest path. Use the account statement export, especially the Account Trade History section. These imports preserve fill-level executions, match them into round-trip trades, attach fees where the statement exposes them, and dedupe repeated imports.
DAS-style and TraderVue-style trade-summary CSVs — supported, and useful for review. They're treated as medium-confidence because they usually summarize a trade rather than exposing every underlying fill.
Other brokers — your export may not work immediately. Broker CSVs differ in column names, timestamps, side labels, and fee fields, so a new broker usually needs a small adapter that maps its format into the app's shared trade format.

Fills, trades, and days

It helps to know the three levels you'll move between:

Fill — a single execution (a partial buy or sell).
Trade — all the fills for one position, grouped with your note and tags.
Day — every trade for a session, with your recap on top.

A note on charts

Your broker CSV supplies the execution markers (symbol, time, side, shares, price). The candles behind them come from a separate market-data source, so charts fill in once that's configured during install. Reviewing your trades, P&L, and notes works regardless.

Tips for clean imports

Export a consistent date range (a day or a week at a time) so nothing overlaps.
Keep the original CSVs until you've confirmed the import looks right.
If numbers look off, check the timezone and currency your broker exported in.