Move your journal from TradeZella to VEXA

What this does

Gets your existing trade history into VEXA, so your scores and metrics start from what you have actually done rather than from today.

Do the import on the web. VEXA AI Import reads a CSV it has never seen before, works out which column is which, and shows you a preview before anything is written.

Before you start

Do not cancel TradeZella first. Nothing about importing requires it, and running both for a couple of weeks is the only honest way to compare them on your own trades. Your VEXA trial is long enough to do exactly that.

Import from your broker if you can. A broker export contains individual executions, which is what VEXA rebuilds trades from, and it is the more accurate source. A journal export is usually one row per finished trade. Use the broker file as your main import, and use the TradeZella export to fill in history your broker will not give you any more. See the broker articles for how far back each broker’s export reaches.

Know your timezone. VEXA asks two questions during the import: what timezone the times in the file are recorded in, and what timezone you want to read your trades in. Getting the first one wrong shifts every trade onto the wrong day.

Steps

What you should see

Four counters above the preview while VEXA reads the file: Total, Parsed, Rejected and Symbols. A small number of rejected rows is normal if the export has summary or header rows in it. A large number means the file is not what VEXA expected, and the reason is printed against each row.

After confirming, an Import Complete panel shows Trades Created, Open Positions Updated and Duplicates Skipped.

Then open your trades list and check the oldest and the newest trade against your TradeZella records. If both ends match, the middle almost always does.

If it doesn’t work

“We couldn’t parse this file yet.” VEXA could not make sense of the layout. The message offers a support request that sends the file to the team so a parser can be added. That is the fastest route for an unusual export.

Every row was rejected. Check that you exported CSV rather than XLSX, and that you did not open and re-save the file in a spreadsheet with a different date format.

Your P&L does not match TradeZella’s. Check whether the export is gross or net. VEXA works from net figures where the file provides them, and a gross export will read higher.

Duplicates. Re-uploading the same file is safe. VEXA matches on the facts of each execution and skips what it already holds, so an import that reports everything as a duplicate has not lost anything.