Most journals can’t auto-sync futures at all — they hand you a CSV export and wish you luck. Journali connects to Tradovate directly, pairs your raw fills into closed round-trips, and prices them with the real contract multiplier.
Nearly every trading journal connects to brokers through an aggregator built for stocks and crypto. Those aggregators don’t cover futures platforms, which is why the same journals that happily sync Robinhood will only offer you a CSV importer for Tradovate.
Journali runs a direct integration with Tradovate instead. You authorise it on Tradovate’s own site, so we never see your password — and the connection is read-only. Journali can read your fills. It can never place a trade, cancel an order, or move funds.
Tradovate reports fills: individual executions. Four partial fills in and three out is one trade to you and seven rows to the platform. A journal that imports those naively either shows you seven meaningless entries or nets a whole session into a single blob.
Journali FIFO-pairs your fills per contract into genuine round-trips — entry, exit, size, and duration — and calculates P&L with each contract’s real dollar-per-point value. ES at $50/point and MES at $5/point are priced correctly instead of identically, which is the difference between a journal you trust and one you quietly stop opening.
NinjaTrader accounts authorise through the same Tradovate connection, so everything on this page applies identically. One setup, both platforms — and if you also trade equities or crypto, those brokers connect separately through Journali’s standard broker sync.
Most Tradovate traders are funded traders. If your Apex, Topstep or MyFundedFutures account trades on Tradovate, it connects exactly the same way — and Prop Firm Mode tracks the challenge rules, drawdown headroom and payout progress alongside the trades as they import.
Yes — a direct, read-only integration you authorise on Tradovate’s own site. Ongoing automatic sync is included with Premier; Pro imports your full history on demand; the free plan imports a 6-trade taster.
Yes. NinjaTrader connects through the same Tradovate authorisation, so setup and behaviour are identical.
No. The connection is read-only and there is no setting that changes that. Journali can read your fills and nothing else.
It FIFO-pairs fills per contract into closed round-trips and prices them with each contract’s real dollar-per-point multiplier, so ES and MES are valued correctly rather than identically.
They’re skipped until they close, then imported automatically. Open positions never distort your win rate or P&L.
No. Apex, Topstep and MyFundedFutures accounts that trade on Tradovate connect the same way, and Prop Firm Mode tracks the rules and drawdown alongside them.