TradeStation

TradeStation allows you to download your stock and option trade data from their web client center through the Tax Center.

Exporting from TradeStation

TradeStation’s trade file comes from the Tax Center of the web client, not from the trading platform.

1. Sign in to the TradeStation web client and open Accounts → Equities Accounts → Tax Center.
2. In Download Tax Activity, set the file format to Microsoft Excel CSV and choose the period.
3. Tick Exclude Broken/Canceled Trades and download.

Six months per file: TradeStation limits each download to six months. For a longer history, download consecutive periods and import each file; Trandence skips executions it already has.

Import To Trandence

1. Open Trandence and go to the Trades page.
2. Click Import Trades and select Upload CSV/TXT.
3. Choose TradeStation as the broker.
4. Set CSV Timezone to the timezone used by the broker export. For most US equities workflows, this is America/New_York.
5. Optionally apply an import preset if you use saved defaults for this account.
6. Select or drop the exported CSV file.
7. Review the parsed trades before saving. Confirm symbols, side, open/close times, quantity, prices, commissions, and the session date range.
8. Use Batch Tags to label the import, for example TradeStation Main or TS June.
9. Click Import & Review Summary to save the import and open the post-import summary.

For the full import workflow, including presets, preview validation, multi-session progress, and conflict review, see Importing Trades.

What Trandence Reads

Trandence reads activity rows with Transaction, Quantity, Symbol, Price, Commission, and Activity Time. Export trades/activity rows, not a portfolio summary.

Trandence keeps supported US equity symbols, including common share-class formats such as BRK.A and BRK.B, and organizes the imported executions into completed trades for review.

• Stocks and ETFs: Buy and Sell trade rows (TradeInd = T).
• Stock and index options: rows with CallPut, UnderlyingSymbol, ExpireDate and StrikePrice, for example NIO221104C12 (NIO, 4 Nov 2022, 12 call). The trade is filed under the underlying and priced at 100 shares per contract. TradeStation counts option quantity in shares (one contract is 100); Trandence checks it against Amount and imports the number of contracts.
• Fees: Commission is imported as the commission.

The activity export lists trades, not expirations, assignments or exercises. An option that expired or was assigned stays open after its expiry date, and Trandence lists it under Expired options to resolve on the Trades page, where you choose what happened.

Conflict Handling

If imported rows overlap with trades already in Trandence, use Review Conflicts to compare them before saving. The safest default is Keep Existing, which preserves the trade already in your account.

If you need to replace existing data, delete or correct the existing trades first, then import the file again intentionally. You can review completed imports from Import History.

Sample file: Download a sample TradeStation CSV file to see the expected format.

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Need Help?

If your file cannot be uploaded, or if the broker has recently changed its export format, contact us at help@trandence.com. We will help you get the data imported smoothly.