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Import your Tradovate CSV

Updated September 23, 2026

The file you need is the Performance report from Tradovate Account Reports, downloaded as CSV: completed paired trades for one account.

Export from Tradovate

  • Step 1. Log in at trader.tradovate.com.
  • Step 2. Open Account Reports: click your account name at the top right and choose it, or use the gear icon beside the account on the Accounts tab, or the Reports icon in the side toolbar.
  • Step 3. Open the Performance tab. That is the one with completed paired trades and their P&L.
  • Step 4. Check that the correct account is selected. One export covers one account.
  • Step 5. Set the date range with the preset chips or the From and To fields.
  • Step 6. Click Go. The report does not refresh without it.
  • Step 7. Click Download CSV. The button sometimes reads Download Report; choose CSV, not PDF.

Import into Propfy

  • Step 1. Open the Import page in Propfy and pick the Tradovate card.
  • Step 2. Choose which account these trades belong to. Optional, but one export is one account.
  • Step 3. Drop the CSV on the upload box, or click to browse. Maximum 4MB and 10,000 rows.
  • Step 4. Read the preview, then click Import trades.

Troubleshooting

  • Rows skipped for an unreadable trade direction: this export has no Side column. Propfy reads direction from which leg filled first, so bought before sold is a long and sold before bought is a short. A row whose timestamps are missing, identical, or no longer real dates has no direction signal and is skipped rather than guessed. Re-saving the file in a spreadsheet is the usual cause.
  • Fees are blank after import: P&L here is gross. Commissions and fees live in the separate Cash History export, so Propfy leaves fees unknown instead of writing a false zero.
  • Losses written as $(160.00): the parentheses form reads as a negative. Leave it exactly as exported.
  • Times look wrong: this report carries no timezone. Tradovate writes the times in whatever timezone your platform displays, usually your own local time and never UTC. Pick that timezone in the selector on the import screen before you import, rather than editing the file.
  • An empty report: you changed the date range but did not click Go.

Columns Propfy reads

symbol, qty, buyPrice, sellPrice, pnl, boughtTimestamp, soldTimestamp. buyFillId, sellFillId, duration and the _priceFormat columns are ignored. On a short, boughtTimestamp is the later of the two because the buy leg is the close, so Propfy maps the sell leg as the entry. Partial fills arrive already paired, so one row is one trade.

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Risk Disclosure

Futures and forex trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one's financial security or lifestyle. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Hypothetical Performance Disclosure

Hypothetical performance results have many inherent limitations, some of which are described below. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown; in fact, there are frequently sharp differences between hypothetical performance results and the actual results subsequently achieved by any particular trading program. One of the limitations of hypothetical performance results is that they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. In addition, hypothetical trading does not involve financial risk, and no hypothetical trading record can completely account for the impact of financial risk of actual trading. For example, the ability to withstand losses or to adhere to a particular trading program in spite of trading losses are material points which can also adversely affect actual trading results. There are numerous other factors related to the markets in general or to the implementation of any specific trading program which cannot be fully accounted for in the preparation of hypothetical performance results and all of which can adversely affect trading results.

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