A trading journal for Quantower. Export the Trades panel, grade what is in it.
Quantower has more than forty panels, and a few of them are about your results: Account Performance, Reports and the Trades panel. They tell you what happened. None of them grade a trade, tag a mistake or check the trade against the plan you wrote before the open. Actal takes one export from the Trades panel and does that part.
Does Quantower have a trading journal?
Not a journal, but it has results panels. Account Performance collects your trades and statistics, Reports pulls statements from your broker where the connection supports it, and the Trades panel lists every execution with fee and P&L. There is no grade, no mistake tag with a cost, no rule check and no plan. The Trades panel exports to CSV from its menu, and that file is what Actal reads.
Where Quantower traders get stuck, and what a week with Actal looks like.
Account Performance shows my equity curve going sideways. It does not say why.
Every trade gets a grade and a mistake tag if there was one. The sideways month turns into three habits with a dollar cost each, and the biggest one is your focus this week.
One Quantower workspace, a Rithmic account, a CQG account and a crypto account. Everything in one Trades panel.
Futures rows import into the account you choose. Crypto and stock rows are skipped with a note. Each futures account sits side by side with its own rules.
My rule is no trades in the first five minutes. Quantower fills the 09:31 order like any other.
Rules are checked on every import, including a trading window. The 09:31 trade is a rule break on the day it happened, with what it cost.
I scalp, I take thirty trades, and by the end of the day I cannot remember which ones were planned.
A, B and C scenarios before the open, a closeout after, and a grade per trade with the keyboard. Thirty trades take about ten minutes, and the off-plan ones stand out.
Fees are in the panel but every tool I try either ignores them or counts them twice.
The Fee column is used as the commission on each execution, once. Gross and net are both shown.
I have all the stats I could want. I need someone or something to tell me what to fix.
One weekly focus, picked from the most expensive mistake first, with progress on the dashboard every morning. And friends who can see your journal and ask about Thursday.
Charts, DOM, footprint and Account Performance stay in Quantower. Actal needs one export from the Trades panel.
How to get the file out of Quantower.
Written from Quantower's own documentation and checked against real files where we have them. The same guide shows on the import page and next to any error.
The Trades panel lists each execution with side, quantity, price, gross P&L, fee and net P&L. Actal rebuilds round trips from the executions and uses Fee as the commission, so net P&L matches.
Rows whose Symbol type is not Futures, like Crypto, Stock or Forex, are skipped with a note on the preview. They are not imported wrong, they are left out.
Date/Time is written in your system format and usually carries an offset, for example 10/25/2023 3:55:47 PM -05:00. With an offset nothing is guessed. Without one, the time is read in your profile timezone.
Quantower writes sells with a negative quantity. That is expected and handled. Side and quantity still come out right.
- 1Open the Trades panel (Portfolio section) and set the date range.
- 2Open the panel's menu (right-click the panel tab) and choose Export data, the same command every Quantower table panel has.
- 3Tick all columns, choose comma separated, and click Export file.
- Fee is used as the commission for each execution; sells carry a negative Quantity, which is fine.
- Rows whose Symbol type is not Futures (Crypto, Stock, Forex) are skipped with a note; only futures are journaled today.
- Date/Time follows your Windows locale and usually carries an offset (10/25/2023 3:55:47 PM -05:00); without one it is read in your profile timezone.
- The panel layout is verified against a real export; that sample held only crypto trades, so futures rows follow the same columns.
Some connections offer broker statements in the Reports panel. Those layouts differ per broker. The Trades panel export is the same everywhere, so use that one.
If your futures account is on Rithmic, R | Trader Order History also imports, one day per file. The Quantower Trades panel is quicker for a longer range. Pick one source per account.
If a Quantower build writes different columns, the column mapper takes the file in one pass and remembers the mapping for next time.
Every trade checked against your rules, then graded.
Daily loss limit, max trades, size and cooldowns are checked the moment the file lands. Then each trade gets a grade on execution with your own setup criteria as the checklist, a mistake tag if there was one, and the chart marked up so the lesson sticks.
Five things that happen with Quantower files, and the fix.
The file had no futures rows. Check Symbol type in the export. Crypto, stock and forex rows are skipped on purpose.
You exported a different panel, or not all columns. Open the Trades panel, right-click the panel tab, Export data, tick all columns, choose comma separated and export again.
Your locale wrote times without an offset. Set your profile timezone to the one Quantower shows and import again, or change the Windows region so the export includes the offset.
The export covered several accounts. Filter the Trades panel to one account before exporting, and import each account's file into its own account in Actal.
A non-English locale can write comma decimals. Actal handles those. If a file still fails, send it to hello@actal.io and it is usually fixed within the week.
Sim, eval, funded and live, side by side.
Each Quantower account becomes an account in Actal with its own rules where they differ, and one dashboard across all of them. A habit that shows up on every account is easy to see.
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Import today's Quantower session. Grade it tonight.
One export, one minute, and the rules tell you how the day actually went. Free while in beta, no card, everything unlocked.