TradeLocker: the connection
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TradeLocker is the trading platform of many CFD brokers and prop firms. TakeJournal signs in to TradeLocker’s API with the e-mail, the password and the server you use in TradeLocker, and reads the accounts behind that sign-in with each sync. It only reads: it never sends, changes or cancels an order.
Add the connection
Section titled “Add the connection”Connections → Add connection, type TradeLocker, a name, and:
- Where you sign in:
demo.tradelocker.comfor demo accounts,live.tradelocker.comfor the others. If the sign-in is refused, try the other one. - Server: the server you choose when signing in to TradeLocker, usually your broker’s or prop firm’s name.
- E-mail and Password: your TradeLocker sign-in. The password is stored encrypted and used for nothing but reading; it is deleted with the connection.
The e-mail, the password and the server are the login your broker or prop firm sent you, the one TradeLocker’s sign-in page takes under Log in with Broker / Prop. A TradeLocker Profile (app.tradelocker.com, signed in with Google, Apple or an e-mail) and its own demo account have no server and cannot be connected: for a demo, open one with a broker from TradeLocker Hub, whose e-mail brings the login.
Add connection saves it and starts the first sync. Test login on the connection’s card lists the accounts TradeLocker shows for the sign-in; a refused sign-in says so on the card, with what TradeLocker answered.
What it reads
Section titled “What it reads”- Every account of the sign-in, named by its number and the server (
1234567 (BROKER-DEMO)), in its currency, with its balance and open result as TradeLocker shows them at each sync. - The order history: each order with a filled quantity is a fill, its filled lots at the average price, at the order’s last change. An order cancelled after a partial fill keeps its filled part. The first sync reads the whole history, later syncs from a week before the last fill.
- The instruments as the journal’s forex, metal and CFD contracts with the broker’s lot size and quoting currency,
named as the imports name them (
EURUSD.pro→EURUSD); a stock or an ETF as a stock. - Each account’s open positions, compared with your fills, so a close the history left out is found (A missing close).
What it leaves out
Section titled “What it leaves out”- Commissions and swaps: TradeLocker’s order history has none, so the trades’ results are before costs.
- Deposits and withdrawals: they are not in the order history, and a change of the balance is not read as one (the costs TradeLocker leaves out would look like it); add them in the account’s ledger.
Related
Section titled “Related”The AI answers from our guide: how TakeJournal works, imports, prop accounts, the plans.
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