FP Markets MT5 trading journal: automatic, saved on your PC

Trade with FP Markets on MetaTrader 5? Here is how to journal every trade automatically without giving anyone your broker login.

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Journal your FP Markets MT5 trades automatically

If you trade with FP Markets on MetaTrader 5 for Windows, AI Trading Journal can save every closed trade in your own journal on your PC (with an optional copy in your own Notion workspace) about every 5 minutes. It reads your FP Markets terminal on your PC. It does not connect to FP Markets, so you never give anyone your FP Markets login.

What FP Markets says about MT5

Facts below are from FP Markets's own pages (https://www.fpmarkets.com/en-ca/platforms/mt5/), checked on 8 October 2026. Offers change, so check the broker's site for the latest. We are not affiliated with FP Markets, and nothing here is a recommendation of it.

Its MT5 page says you can trade MT5 on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows.
It lists hedging and six pending order types.
It lists over 80 built-in technical indicators and 44 analytical objects.
It says live-account clients can install Expert Advisors and copy-trading software.

What that means for your journal

Six pending order types means many traders plan entries as orders rather than market clicks. In the journal, note the order type you intended and the planned entry, so you can see how often fills match the plan.

Journaling tips for FP Markets accounts

Write the planned entry and order type in Notes; the app records the executed price.
Tag copy-traded or EA trades so they do not blend with your manual results.
Hedging means separate positions; each closed position is one row.

How to set it up

Install the MT5 terminal on your Windows PC and log in to your FP Markets account.
Install AI Trading Journal, click Add Account and pick your logged-in account. It finds your terminal and account.
Click Create my journal. The app imports your whole history and keeps it up to date about every 5 minutes.
Optional: click Connect Notion to keep a copy of the journal in your own Notion workspace.

What each journal entry contains

For every closed position: symbol, direction, volume, open and close time, entry and exit price, stop loss, take profit and profit or loss, plus your own setup, emotion, rating, tags, notes and screenshots, which a sync never overwrites. A daily row shows the day's result, win rate and drawdown.

A weekly review for your FP Markets trades

Which symbols made or lost money this week?
Which session were most of the losses taken in?
Did lot size stay inside your plan?
How many trades would you not take again?

The weekly trading review checklist turns these into a 20-minute routine, and win rate, profit factor and expectancy explained shows how to read the numbers.

Privacy and cost compared with a cloud journal

Question	Cloud journal	AI Trading Journal
Where do your trades live?	On the vendor's servers	On your own PC; they do not pass through our servers
Does it need your broker login?	Many connect with account login and investor password, or an Expert Advisor that sends data out	No. It reads your own logged-in MT5 terminal on your PC
What if you stop paying?	Access and history can end with the subscription	Your Notion journal stays yours
Can it place trades?	Read-only access is typical, but you are trusting the vendor	It is read-only by design; it never places, changes or closes a trade

An honest note on privacy. Notion is itself a cloud service, so your trades do sit on Notion's servers, in your own workspace, under your own account and token. What AI Trading Journal removes is the extra middleman: there is no separate journal vendor holding your trades and no broker login sent to a website. No tool is risk-free, so protect your accounts, including Notion if you connect it, with a strong password and two-step verification.

Limits to know

Windows and MetaTrader 5 desktop only.
Trades sync every 5 minutes, not instantly.
One computer at a time per license.
No trade replay, backtesting or AI coach.

More: all MT5 broker notes, how it compares with TradeZella, the multi-account journal guide and the forex trading journal guide.

This page is general information, not trading or investment advice, and is not endorsed by FP Markets.

Planned entries and pending orders

The notes above mention six pending order types. Traders who place orders in advance have a journaling question that market-order traders do not: how often did the fill match the plan? For each pending order, record the order type and the price you planned. After the trade closes, the entry price MT5 recorded is the real fill, and the gap between the two is a measure of slippage, or of plans that changed. Over a month, a small table shows whether limit orders or stop orders serve you better.

Order type used (hypothetical)	Trades	Average gap, planned vs filled (pips)	Plan followed
Limit	24	0.1	92%
Stop	18	0.8	83%
Market	21	0.4	62%

In this made-up table, market orders have the lowest plan-followed rate. That is common, since market orders are often impulsive, and it is the kind of difference a journal makes visible.

Copy-trading software and Expert Advisors

The page says live-account clients can install Expert Advisors and copy-trading software. If you use either, trades you did not place by hand will show up in your account history. Tag them separately, so that your own decisions can be reviewed on their own, and so that you are not crediting or blaming yourself for the results of a program. The app does not record the magic number, so a Setup option named after the source is the simplest solution.

Indicators and objects are not data

The page lists over 80 built-in indicators and 44 analytical objects. Those are tools for finding trades. The journal records what you did with them. If you rely on several indicators, write down which ones triggered each entry in the notes, so you can later compare setups built on different tools instead of guessing which was useful.

A short weekly review for an FP Markets MT5 account

Which order type gave the best net result per trade?
Did any trade come from software rather than from you? What was its result?
Which indicator or tool was named in the notes on the best and worst trades?
Did lot size stay within the plan on every trade, including pending orders you placed earlier in the day?

The weekly trading review checklist turns these into a 20-minute routine.

Frequently asked questions

Does AI Trading Journal work with FP Markets?

Yes, if your FP Markets account runs on the MetaTrader 5 desktop terminal for Windows. The app reads your own terminal, so no connection to FP Markets is needed.

Do I need to give my FP Markets password to the app?

No. It reads the account that is already logged in to your MT5 terminal.

Can I journal a demo and a real FP Markets account?

Yes. Run the setup once per account and each gets its own Notion database. Keep demo and real results separate.

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