Tradovate's built-in journal is a flat list of fills — no chart context, no R-multiples, no prop-firm rule tracking. Here's how to import your Tradovate trades into a journal that shows you what actually happened on each setup.
Tradovate is a great execution platform — fast DOM, web-native, $0.25/contract default for prop accounts, and it's the platform Topstep, Apex, MyFundedFutures, and most futures prop firms route through. But the "Notes" and "Trade History" tabs are a flat list of fills, not a journal:
Aurafy reads Tradovate's standard CSV export — no API keys, no OAuth, no read-only login. Two minutes:
In Tradovate, go to Account → History → Performance (or Reports in the desktop client). Pick a date range and click Export CSV. You'll get a file with fills, fees, contract, side, price, and timestamps.
Open app.aurafy.dev, go to Imports → Tradovate, and drop the file. Aurafy auto-pairs entry and exit fills into round-turn trades, applies the correct tick value per contract (ES, NQ, MES, MNQ, CL, GC, ZB, 6E, MBT — 30+ presets), and computes net P&L after exchange + clearing + Tradovate commissions.
Every fill plots on the chart with entry/stop/exit arrows. R-multiples compute automatically from the stop you set in the trade. The first time you see a week of fills laid over the 5-minute, you'll notice patterns you couldn't see in a fill list.
Re-exporting daily is fine for most prop-firm traders. If you trade enough volume to want auto-sync, Aurafy supports a daily Tradovate CSV ingest via email-to-inbox or watched-folder upload (pro tier).
~85% of Tradovate's active retail accounts are prop-firm funded or eval accounts (Tradovate is the default Topstep/Apex/MFFU platform). That's the audience this journal is built for. Aurafy tracks:
Tradovate is the broker. Aurafy is the journal that knows you're trading on Tradovate, on a $50K Topstep XFA, with a 30% consistency rule that decides your next payout. Free tier covers the last 30 days of trades — no card, no trial-with-charge. Pro is $49/mo, or $19/mo locked for life as one of the first 50 founders.
Try Aurafy free → See pricingThis is the part most Tradovate users don't know exists. Aurafy can record your trading session — DOM, chart, news feed, Discord, all of it — and attach the recording to the trades that fired during that window. When you review the day, you don't just see the fills; you see the setup you were watching, the news pop you ignored, the hesitation before entry.
Every futures journal on the market — TradeZella, TraderSync, Tradervue, TradesViz, EdgeWonk — can show you the fills. None of them record the session. For prop-firm traders, where most blowups are behavioral (oversizing, revenge trades, freeze on news), this is the missing review layer. Full breakdown: trade replay vs screen recording →
These work whether or not you sign up — single-page tools, no login, mobile-friendly. Preloaded with the prop-firm presets and the exact tick values for the contracts you actually trade on Tradovate (ES, NQ, MES, MNQ, CL, MCL, GC, MGC, etc).
Topstep + Apex 4.0 + MFFU presets. Intraday + EOD trail modeled separately. See your exact floor and headroom.
Open →Drop in entry / exit / stop on any of 30+ futures contracts. Get ticks, points, gross + net P&L (after Tradovate commissions), $ risk, R-multiple.
Open →Prop-firm-aware sizing — checks both your risk-per-trade and the trail-DD floor. Tells you how many losses in a row to blow the account.
Open →Topstep 50%, Apex 4.0 30%, MFFU 40%. Drop in your daily P&L list — get max-allowed-best-day and the extra profit needed to qualify for payout.
Open →No. Aurafy reads the CSV file you export from Tradovate. There is no API connection, no read-only login, no credentials shared. The CSV-only model is intentional — it's the lowest-risk import path and works identically across every Tradovate account type (eval, funded, personal).
Yes — that's the primary use case. ~85% of Tradovate's retail volume is prop-firm accounts. Aurafy's prop-firm rule tracking (trail-DD, DLL, consistency) is preset for the major firms and applies to whichever Tradovate account you imported. If you trade two accounts (a personal one + a funded), import both — Aurafy keeps them separate.
Same flow, different export. Aurafy imports CSV from NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart, and Rithmic (R|Trader Pro statements) too. The rule-tracking + chart overlay + screen recording work identically — the only thing that changes is which export button you click.
It's a real free tier — last 30 days of trades, 1 account, 3 playbooks, no card. For a single Topstep XFA or Apex evaluation you're actively running, 30 days of history is more than enough to see whether the rule tracking + chart overlay is useful before you pay anything. There's no trial-with-charge — if you don't upgrade, nothing happens.
First 50 paying customers get $19/mo locked for life instead of $49/mo. After 50, the price goes to $49 for everyone new — but existing $19 seats stay $19 forever. That's the whole offer; no upsell, no trial, no rate-rise clause. If you cancel and come back, the founder price is gone.
Yes — net P&L is computed after the actual fee schedule on the CSV (exchange + clearing + Tradovate's per-side commission). If you're on a prop-firm-discounted commission tier, the export reflects the discounted rate and Aurafy uses it directly. The futures P&L calculator above lets you sanity-check the math for any single trade.
Yes — screen recording is a Pro-tier feature. Free includes the journal, imports, and chart overlays but not the recorder. If the recording layer is the part you want, the $19 founder seat is the cheapest way to get it; the next-closest stack (TradeZella + Loom or OBS) runs $49 + $15 = $64/mo and still doesn't tag recordings to specific trades.