Import NinjaTrader 8 trades into your journal

NinjaTrader's Trade Performance report exports a clean CSV, and TradeHelp recognizes it on sight. Two minutes from platform to journaled, verified trades.

Export from NinjaTrader 8

1. In the Control Center, open New → Trade Performance.
2. Pick your account and date range, then run the report and switch the display to the Trades tab (the grid of individual trades).
3. Set the display unit to Currency ($). That is the toolbar dropdown that toggles Points / Ticks / Currency. The export follows whatever is displayed, and you want P&L in dollars.
4. Right-click the trades grid and choose Export…, saving as CSV.

Import into TradeHelp

1. Open the Journal tab and click Import CSV.
2. Drop the file in. TradeHelp detects the NinjaTrader export automatically, so you'll see "NinjaTrader 8 export recognized" with every column pre-mapped.
3. Check the preview and click Import.

What TradeHelp handles for you

• Direction from the Market pos. column (Long / Short).
• Symbols cleaned up. "MNQ MAR24" becomes MNQ, so contract months don't fragment your stats.
• Commission netted into P&L and tracked separately, with total fees shown on your dashboard.
• Entry and exit times parsed, powering the hour-by-day performance heat map.
• Duplicates skipped. Re-export next month and only the new trades import.
• Rating turns Verified. Broker-imported trades upgrade your trader rating from "Self-reported".

Trading through Tradovate or TopstepX instead? See the Tradovate guide or the TopstepX guide. Any other platform's CSV works too, because the generic mapper guesses columns from headers and lets you fix any it misses.