
How to Export MT5 Trade History (and Get It Into a Trading Journal)
MetaTrader 5 keeps every trade you have taken, but getting that history into a spreadsheet or journal is not obvious. Here is the exact path, the gotchas, and the shortcut.
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MetaTrader 5 keeps every trade you have taken, but getting that history into a spreadsheet or journal is not obvious. Here is the exact path, the gotchas, and the shortcut.

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If you still paste MT5 history into Excel, you already know where this goes. Week one is detailed. Week four is blank rows and guilt.

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