Plus500 has no CSV export. Here is the workaround

Plus500 does not give you a spreadsheet of your trades. Its Reports screen shows your activity as a web page in the browser or emails it as a PDF. To journal it, open the report in the browser, copy the closed positions table into a spreadsheet, save it as CSV, and import it. The journal has detection for Plus500's instrument, action and P&L headers, so a clean copy maps itself.

Where the report is

In the WebTrader, open Menu, then Tools, then Reports. On the mobile app it is More > Account > Reports. Pick a time frame, then choose between two buttons:

• Show Report opens it in the browser as a web page. This is the one you want.
• Send by Email sends a PDF to your registered address. Fine for records, no use for import.

There is also an annual report option. Plus500's help describes these reports as covering closed positions and your profit and loss. We could not find any official mention of a CSV or Excel download, and Plus500 does not offer MetaTrader, so there is no live sync route.

Turning the report into a CSV

1. Open the report with Show Report on a desktop browser. Phones make this harder than it needs to be.
2. Find the closed positions table. Click just before the first header cell, then shift-click after the last cell of the last row.
3. Copy and paste into Google Sheets or Excel. Most browsers paste HTML tables as proper columns.
4. Delete any rows above the header and any totals rows below the data. The header must be the first row.
5. Save or download as CSV. Keep the original header names; the journal looks for them.

What the columns mean

Plus500 does not publish the exact report layout, so names can shift a little. The journal's Plus500 detection looks for an Instrument column, an Action column (buy or sell), and a P&L column, then maps these:

One cleanup matters: Plus500 instrument names have spaces, such as "US 500". The journal keeps a symbol up to its first space, so in our test "US 500" was stored as "US". Replace names with one-word codes (US500, OIL, GOLD) before saving the CSV.

If your copy does not have an Instrument and Action header, the column mapper opens and you tag the columns by hand. It needs at least Symbol, Open date and Net P&L, and it remembers the mapping for next month.

Plus500 charges to keep in mind

Plus500 describes overnight funding added to or taken from your account for positions held past the cut-off, and dividend adjustments on the ex-date for share and index positions. Its help pages do not say how these appear in the report, so check whether your P&L column already includes them. A quick test: pick one trade you held overnight and compare its P&L with the account balance change that night.

Importing and reviewing

Once your trades are in, start with these:

• Average winner against average loser. Plus500's guaranteed stops and trailing stops make it easy to cut winners early. If your average loser is bigger than your average winner, your win rate has to carry everything.
• Trades per day. A one-tap app invites overtrading. Look at your P&L on days with more than five trades against days with fewer.
• R once you add stops. The report has no stop column. Add the stop to the trades you want to study and read them in R with the R-multiple calculator logic.