Trade data and reconciliation

Understand fees, partial exits, account currency, and the scope of a journal record.

• Why does a trade appear on different dates in Local and Broker time?

  Understand calendar boundaries and timezone filters before comparing daily MT5 journal results.

• Can I add results from trading accounts with different currencies?

  Keep account denominations, cent units and currency conversion separate when reviewing multiple MT5 hubs.

• Why does the initial stop differ from the stop shown at exit?

  Keep original risk separate from later stop changes when reviewing an MT5 trade and its R multiple.

• Why can a profitable MT5 trade show a negative net result?

  Work through profit, commission and swap with their recorded signs before comparing trading-journal totals.

• Why do older trades disappear when I change my journal view?

  Check history entitlement, archive state and filters before treating an absent trade as deleted data.

• How should a journal count partial closes in MT5?

  Distinguish execution events from completed trade records so partial exits do not inflate count or P&L.

• Why does cumulative journal P&L differ from my broker balance?

  Distinguish realised closed-trade results from account cash flows, floating P&L and live equity.

• How do I reconcile a trading journal with an MT5 statement?

  Use a small known sample and matching scope to locate disagreements between broker history and journal results.