What your MT5 history reveals
- Full round-trip reconstruction: your deals are paired into complete trades with entry, exit, hold time and net result.
- Net expectancy after all costs — the dollars per trade that decides whether you compound or bleed.
- The fee floor: commissions, swaps and ticket costs per trade, and the win rate needed just to break even on costs.
- Discipline signals: loss streaks, revenge-trade cadence (trades per day after losses) and drawdown depth.
Why MT5 traders overestimate their edge
- The terminal totals gross profit but spreads the costs across deals where nobody reads them.
- Overtrading feels productive — every trade pays spread and commission whether it wins or loses.
- Swap costs on held positions quietly flip "winning" strategies to net losers over months.
- Win rate is the vanity metric; expectancy after fees is the only one that pays bills.
Check your real trading data — free
Upload your MT4, MT5 or TradingView report and get the complete stats — plus the fee floor: how much you must earn just to pay the broker. Anonymous upload, free account to see the verdict, stored privately.
Analyze my tradesHow to export your MT5 history
- Open MT5 → Toolbox → History tab → right-click → "Export to Excel" for a .xlsx deals report.
- Alternatively save the report as HTML (.htm) — both formats are parsed automatically.
- Deals are matched into round-trip trades by position, so partial closes and reversals are handled.
Practice this — risk-free
The WallStreet Billionaire simulator runs your trades against real historical charts with a virtual balance. No deposit, no real money — just your edge against the real market.
Good enough for prop?Trade the same charts as everyone else
Identical charts, identical starting balance, five trades — your P&L % is the score. Run it free and see where you land on the board.
Ready for the real market?
Practiced until your numbers are green? Open a live account with a regulated broker — and start small.
Frequently asked questions
Do you need my MT5 login?+
No — never. Export the history file yourself and upload it. No credentials, no connection to your broker, nothing shared.
Are partial closes supported?+
Yes. MT5 deal reports are reconstructed into complete round-trip trades, including partial closes and reversals.
What is the fee floor?+
The performance your trading must generate just to cover commissions, swaps and ticket fees — computed from the actual costs inside your report.
Last updated: September 2026. Written and maintained by the WallStreet Billionaire research team, the same traders and engineers who build the simulator every guide on this site points to.
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