How To Import TradingView Paper Trades Into Tradervue: A Clear Step‑By‑Step Guide

Connecting TradingView paper trades with Tradervue lets you backtest strategies in a realistic way and then review them with detailed analytics. The catch: TradingView’s paper trading isn’t directly integrated with Tradervue, so you have to use an indirect workflow.

This guide walks through how importing works, realistic ways to do it, and what changes depending on your tools, account, and trading style.

How TradingView Paper Trades and Tradervue Work Together

To understand importing, it helps to know what each platform is actually doing:

• TradingView Paper Trading

  • Simulates orders on TradingView charts
  • Lets you place market, limit, stop, and sometimes more advanced order types depending on your broker integration
  • Keeps a paper trading history (entries, exits, size, P&L)
  • Doesn’t export directly to Tradervue

• Tradervue

  • A trade journaling and analytics platform
  • Accepts import files or broker connections to pull in trades
  • Parses fields like symbol, side (buy/sell), quantity, price, date/time, fees
  • Supports a long list of brokers and platforms, but no native TradingView paper account integration

So importing TradingView paper trades into Tradervue usually means:

1. Get the trade history out of TradingView (or log trades while you place them).
2. Convert that data into a broker/platform format Tradervue understands.
3. Upload the file to Tradervue via its import feature.

The idea is simple, but the exact steps depend heavily on how you’re paper trading and what tools you’re willing to use.

Common Ways to Move TradingView Paper Trades Into Tradervue

There are three main patterns people use:

1. Manual Export (or Copy) From TradingView + Manual Import to Tradervue

For many traders, the most straightforward method is a manual workflow.

Typical process:

1. Open your paper trading history in TradingView

   • In TradingView, open the Trading Panel.
   • Select Paper Trading.
   • Look for the History or Account History tab that shows closed trades.

2. Get your data out

   • Some users copy rows from the history table into a spreadsheet.
   • Depending on the version and browser, you might:
     • Select rows and use copy/paste into Excel/Google Sheets.
     • Or, if available, use any Export / Download / Save as file option in the paper trading history.

3. Clean up the data in a spreadsheet

   • Make sure you have at least:
     • Date/time of execution
     • Symbol
     • Side (buy/sell or long/short)
     • Quantity
     • Price
     • Commission/fees (optional but helpful)
   • Put these into separate columns with clear headers.

4. Format the file for Tradervue

   • Tradervue supports various import formats (e.g., specific broker CSV layouts).
   • You can adapt your spreadsheet to match one of the supported CSV templates Tradervue documents:
     • Columns in the right order
     • Correct header names or no headers, depending on format
   • Then save as CSV (comma‑separated values).

5. Import into Tradervue

   • In Tradervue, go to the Import Trades section.
   • Choose the matching broker/platform format you used as your template.
   • Upload your CSV and let Tradervue parse it.

This method works well if you:

• Don’t mind spending a few minutes cleaning a file
• Don’t have many trades per day
• Want control over exactly what gets logged

It’s more tedious if you day trade heavily or need to sync trades multiple times per day.

2. Use a Real Broker in TradingView, Then Import Broker Data to Tradervue

TradingView can connect to supported brokers so that your orders go to a real broker account, not just the paper engine. Some traders do this but use small position sizes or a sandbox/test account where available to mimic paper trading.

In that case:

1. TradingView sends orders to your broker.
2. Your broker keeps the official trade history.
3. You import from the broker directly into Tradervue using one of Tradervue’s existing broker integrations.

This avoids the paper trading limitation, because Tradervue never needs to read TradingView’s paper logs—it just reads the broker’s fills.

Useful if:

• Your broker is supported by both TradingView and Tradervue.
• You’re comfortable that trades are going to a live or test account instead of TradingView’s pure paper engine.
• You want a mostly automated pipeline.

Not ideal if:

• You strictly want zero live risk.
• Your current broker isn’t supported by one or both platforms.

3. Semi‑Automated Scripts or Tools to Log While You Trade

More technical users sometimes build a custom logging layer:

• Use custom alerts or webhooks from TradingView when orders fill.
• Send those alerts to a small app, Google Sheet, or script.
• Structure the data in a format that can be regularly exported as CSV.
• Import that CSV to Tradervue with a consistent broker-like format.

This approach:

• Cuts down on manual copying from TradingView’s paper history.
• Still requires you to design a CSV format that Tradervue can read.
• Often needs coding skills (e.g., using APIs, webhooks, or automation platforms).

This is attractive if you:

• Trade frequently
• Enjoy automating workflows
• Want repeatable imports with minimal manual work

It’s overkill if you only place a few paper trades here and there.

What You Need to Import Correctly: Key Data Fields

Regardless of method, Tradervue needs enough information to reconstruct each trade. These fields matter most:

If your paper account in TradingView doesn’t expose one of these neatly (e.g., fees), you can:

• Approximate commissions in your spreadsheet.
• Or set generic commission rules inside Tradervue if supported.

The better your field mapping, the more accurate Tradervue’s win rate, R‑multiples, and risk stats will be.

Variables That Change How You Should Import

The “best” method for bringing TradingView paper trades into Tradervue depends on several factors:

1. How Actively You Trade

• Low frequency (a few trades per week)

  • Manual copy‑paste to spreadsheet and CSV upload is usually fine.
  • You can even edit notes or tags as you go.

• High frequency (many intraday trades)

  • Manual workflows get painful quickly.
  • A broker integration or some automation becomes more attractive.

2. Your Existing Broker Setup

• Broker supported by both platforms
  • You can often trade via TradingView directly into that broker.
  • Then simply use the broker’s standard Tradervue import.
• No overlap in supported brokers
  • You’re more reliant on paper trading logs and manual or scripted CSV creation.

3. Asset Classes You Trade

Different asset types can change formatting needs:

• Stocks and ETFs
  • Usually easiest; common formats are well documented in Tradervue.
• Futures, forex, or crypto
  • Sometimes need special treatment:
    • Symbols might need a particular format.
    • Contract multipliers and tick sizes can affect how P&L calculates.
  • You may need to adjust how instruments are named in your CSV so Tradervue recognizes them.

4. Time Zone and Session Handling

If TradingView and Tradervue interpret time zones differently:

• Your trades might show at odd times or on the wrong day.
• It can affect session grouping (e.g., overnight positions).

You may need to:

• Set consistent time zone preferences in both tools.
• Convert timestamps in your spreadsheet if needed.

5. Your Comfort With Spreadsheets or Coding

• Spreadsheet‑comfortable, non‑coder
  • Manual CSV creation using a sample Tradervue template works well.
• Comfortable with scripting or APIs
  • A background script or automation can capture and format trade details as you go.
  • Over time, you may barely touch the raw TradingView paper history.

Different User Profiles, Different Import Flows

Here’s how the overall process can look for different kinds of traders:

Casual Strategy Tester

• Profile: Tests a few ideas per week, mostly swing trades.
• Likely workflow:
  • Occasionally copy paper trade history from TradingView.
  • Clean it in a spreadsheet.
  • Import to Tradervue weekly or monthly.
• Trade‑off: Minimal setup, but a little manual effort each time.

High‑Frequency Day Trader (Paper)

• Profile: Dozens of intraday paper trades for practice.
• Likely workflow:
  • Manual export becomes overwhelming.
  • More likely to:
    • Use a broker integration with small real sizes, or
    • Build a script/automation around TradingView alerts.
• Trade‑off: More initial setup and technical work, smoother ongoing imports.

Multi‑Asset Swing Trader

• Profile: Mix of stocks, ETFs, maybe some futures or crypto.
• Likely workflow:
  • Needs careful symbol and contract formatting in CSV.
  • May use one approach for equities (manual) and another for futures (broker link or custom template).
• Trade‑off: Slightly more complex mapping, but once set, can reuse the same templates.

Data‑Driven Journaler

• Profile: Cares deeply about stats, tags, and notes.
• Likely workflow:
  • Uses a spreadsheet as a staging area, adding:
    • Setup tags
    • Timeframe
    • Screenshots or links to charts (as text URLs)
  • Then regularly imports enriched CSVs into Tradervue.
• Trade‑off: More manual editing, but much richer analysis once in Tradervue.

Why Your Exact Setup Is the Missing Piece

The mechanics of importing TradingView paper trades into Tradervue are straightforward: you either convert paper trading history into a Tradervue‑friendly format or you route orders through a broker that Tradervue already understands.

What changes everything is your own situation:

• How often you trade, and how many fills you generate each day
• Whether your broker is supported by both platforms, one, or neither
• Which asset classes you trade and how they’re named
• How precise you need your P&L and commission data to be
• Whether you’re comfortable spending a bit of time in spreadsheets, or prefer to script things

Once you’re clear on those details, the “right” way to move TradingView paper trades into Tradervue tends to become obvious for your specific workflow.