Import your MT5 history instead of retyping it
MetaTrader 5 already stores every trade you have taken. That is a record, not a journal — it knows your entry, your exit and your P&L, and nothing about why you pressed the button.
The Gold Plan imports what MT5 has, so the manual part is only the part MT5 cannot know.
Export from MT5 first
- Open Toolbox → History in MetaTrader 5.
- Right-click inside the history list → Report → choose XLSX (or HTML).
- Pick the date range. One account at a time — do not merge accounts into one file.
- Save the file. That is the file you upload.
Then import
- Open Import in the journal.
- Select the account the file belongs to. This is the step people skip, and it is the one that makes per-account statistics wrong.
- Upload the file. The parser reads open time, symbol, direction, volume, entry, exit and profit.
- Review the preview before you commit. Duplicates are the usual surprise.
What the import cannot fill in
| Comes from MT5 | You add afterwards |
|---|---|
| Open/close time, symbol, direction | Session label, if you use custom ones |
| Volume, entry, exit, profit | Setup name |
| Ticket, commission, swap | Emotion before and after the trade |
| — | Notes: what you saw, what you ignored |
That second column is the entire reason to keep a journal at all. A file full of imported rows with empty emotion fields is a spreadsheet with extra steps.
After the import, look at three things
- Session scoreboard. Gold in the London–NY overlap is a different instrument from gold in Asia. Your win rate will not be the same, and the gap is usually bigger than you expect.
- Emotion vs net P&L. Calm days tend to print. Revenge days tend to donate. If the bar chart shows what you suspect, you now have a number instead of a feeling.
- Best and worst trade. The worst trade is rarely the biggest loss. It is usually the one that broke your own size rule.
Does it work with other platforms?
The parser is built around the MT5 Excel/HTML report, which most MT4-to-MT5 brokers and prop firms produce. If your broker's export looks different, manual entry and the Quick Log API both still work — the API exists so an iOS Shortcut can post a trade in one tap.
If you have a year of gold trades sitting in MT5 unexamined, importing them takes about a minute and answers questions you have been guessing at.