Pepperstone on five platforms, one honest journal

Pepperstone lets you trade the same Razor account through MT4, MT5, cTrader, TradingView or its own platform. For a journal, that choice decides everything. MT4, MT5 and cTrader sync live with RBSync. TradingView and the Pepperstone platform have no live route, so you bring in a file. Pick one platform per account if you can: it keeps your history in one place.

Platform by platform

Read that middle and right column together. The same EURUSD lot can cost a different amount depending on where you click buy. If you switch platforms halfway through a month, your journal's fee stats will move for reasons that have nothing to do with how you trade.

Exporting from each platform

MT4 and MT5

MT4: Terminal > Account History, right-click, choose the period, then Save as Report. MT5: Toolbox > History, switch to Positions, right-click > Report > HTML or Excel. The journal reads both.

cTrader

In the History tab, use Statement to open an HTML or Excel statement and save it. cTrader's history has separate Swap and Commissions columns and a Net (USD) column. The journal uses the net figure as your P&L, not the gross.

Pepperstone platform

Pepperstone's help also describes Portfolio > Account Statements, where you set From and To dates and press Generate Statement. It shows a financial summary, orders and positions on screen. Pepperstone does not document a file format for either view, so if you cannot download a CSV, copy the trade table into a spreadsheet, save it as CSV, and use the column mapper.

TradingView

Our TradingView guide covers the Trading Panel export. One Pepperstone-specific note: Pepperstone says TradingView only displays the swap charge after it has been applied, so a trade closed before rollover will never show one.

Archived accounts

If an old MT4 account has been archived, its history is gone from the terminal. Pepperstone says reactivation is only available for generating trading statements on request, through support. Ask for the full history as an MT4 statement and import the HTML. Do this before you start comparing this year with last year.

Time zones

Pepperstone sets server time to GMT+3 while US daylight saving is in place and GMT+2 the rest of the year, so the daily candle closes with New York. File imports keep the server timestamps. Live sync converts them to UTC using the offset the EA sends. If you mix both routes on one account, check a trade that came by file against the same trade on your chart.

What to review once it is in

• Fees by platform. Tag trades with the platform you used and compare commission per lot.
• Financing on swing trades. Pepperstone charges financing on positions held past 5 PM New York time. Look at net against gross on anything held overnight.
• R, not dollars. MT and cTrader history keep your stop, so R works right away. Check one with the R-multiple calculator.

Before you change platforms

If you are about to move from MT4 to cTrader or TradingView, export a full MT4 report first and import it, so the journal has your complete history on one account. Then point the new platform's route at the same journal account, or start a new one if you want a clean comparison. The second option is often more useful: it shows whether the move changed your results, not just your fees.