How to combine MT5 trade history from several brokers and accounts

Symbols, clocks, currencies and balance rows: what to line up first and what is better left separate.

Many traders end up with more than one MetaTrader 5 account: a main broker and a second one for a different instrument, a prop firm account next to a personal one, or an old broker kept for a few open positions. Each terminal login shows only its own history, so the question “how am I doing overall?” has no built-in answer. This page explains what is different between brokers, how to combine histories without double counting or mixing currencies, and how to keep one honest view of your results.

Why combining is harder than it looks

Two histories rarely line up cleanly. Symbols can carry different names or suffixes at different brokers, the servers use different clocks, the account currencies may differ, contract sizes can vary and commission is charged in different ways. If you simply paste two exports under each other, you will get a table that looks complete and misleads. The work is in making the rows comparable first.

Difference	What goes wrong if ignored	Fix
Symbol names (EURUSD, EURUSD.m, EURUSDpro)	One instrument shows up as three	Map every name to one base symbol; see symbol suffixes
Server clock	Trades land on the wrong day or hour	Convert to one zone; see MT5 server time
Account currency	Profit totals mix dollars and euros	Keep each account in its own currency or convert at a stated rate
Netting vs hedging	Trade counts are not comparable	See hedging vs netting
Balance rows	Deposits counted as profit	Remove them; see balance rows

A safe method in a spreadsheet

Export each account separately for the same date range and keep the files unchanged as your source of truth.
Add an Account column and a Currency column to each copy before you merge anything.
Convert the close time to one time zone in a new column; leave the original column intact.
Map symbols to a base name in a lookup table, and keep the table so you can audit it later.
Remove non-trade rows such as deposits and corrections, then total net profit per account first and only afterwards compare accounts.
If you need one combined number, convert each account’s result with a fixed, written-down rate and label it as approximate.

What should and should not be combined

Percentages and rates travel better than money. Win rate, average winner to average loser and profit factor can be calculated per account and compared side by side, which is usually more informative than a merged dollar figure. Account sizes may differ ten-fold, and a prop firm account has rules a personal account does not. Combining them into one equity curve rarely tells you anything true. Keep the accounts separate for analysis and combine only for a simple overview, such as total monthly result in one currency.

A worked example (hypothetical)

A trader has a personal account in dollars and a second account in euros at another broker. Over a month the first shows 40 closed positions and a net result of 310.00 USD; the second shows 22 closed positions and 95.00 EUR. The symbol on the second broker is XAUUSD.pro while the first uses XAUUSD, so a naive merge splits gold into two rows. After mapping both to one base symbol, the trader can see that gold made up 31 of the 62 trades. For the monthly overview the trader writes down a rate of, say, 1.08 for the month, converts 95.00 EUR to about 102.60 USD and notes that the sum is approximate. The numbers and the rate are invented.

Doing it without the manual work

AI Trading Journal is a Windows app for MetaTrader 5 only. It supports several accounts: you switch between accounts in the app, and each account has its own journal entries, dashboard and P&L calendar. That keeps results comparable instead of blended, and the Export Report to Excel function gives you a workbook per account when you want to build your own overview. It reads closed trades from the terminal on your PC, adds new ones every 5 minutes, one entry per closed position, and the journal is a file on your own computer. It is read-only and never places or modifies a trade. The license covers one device at a time. For more on the idea, see the multi-account trading journal page.

Limits and cautions

The app does not convert currencies or merge accounts into a single figure; that is a choice you make in your own spreadsheet.
Different brokers can calculate commission and swap differently; compare net results with that in mind, as MT5 trading costs in history explains.
A prop firm account’s results follow that firm’s rules; do not mix them with a personal account without labelling them.
All example numbers are hypothetical and not advice.

A monthly checklist for a multi-account trader

Once you run more than one account, a short routine beats an occasional big cleanup. Pick a fixed day each month, export every account for the same calendar range and save the originals untouched in a folder named for the month. Work only on copies. This way, if a figure looks wrong later, you can go back to the raw export and see whether the mistake was in the data or in your handling of it.

Check that every account’s export starts and ends on the same dates, allowing for the different server clocks.
Write the conversion rate you used, and the date you looked it up, into a notes cell so the figure can be reproduced.
Compare the number of closed positions with what each terminal shows; a mismatch usually means a partial close or a balance row slipped in.
Note any rule that applies to one account only, such as a daily loss limit on a prop account, so it is not mistaken for your own behaviour.
Record one sentence per account about what you would do differently next month; that sentence is worth more than the merged total.

If you notice that one account consistently does better than another, resist the urge to conclude that the broker is the cause. Differences in instruments, time of day, position size and even the mood you trade in can explain a gap far more often than the platform does. Use the combined view to ask questions, and use each account’s own journal to answer them.

Frequently asked questions

Can MT5 show history from two brokers at once?

No. Each login shows only its own account. You have to export or journal each one and combine them yourself.

How do I avoid double counting?

Export the same date range from each account, remove balance rows and keep an Account column on every row.

Should I merge accounts in different currencies?

Compare rates and ratios first. Merge money only with a stated, fixed conversion rate and mark it approximate.

Why do the same symbols look different at different brokers?

Brokers add suffixes or use their own names. Map them to a base symbol before totalling.

Does the journal app merge accounts?

No, it keeps each MT5 account separate and lets you switch between them.

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