What a fill file needs

The importer does not need a template. It looks at your header row and finds the five things it needs, whatever your platform calls them.

The five columns

• A time. An ISO timestamp, a plain epoch, or a date and time in either day-first or month-first order.
• A symbol. The contract as your platform writes it, so NQZ6 rather than NQ, which is matched back to the instrument on your plan.
• A side. Buy or sell, in any of the usual spellings.
• A quantity.
• A price. Thousands separators, currency symbols and bracketed negatives are all handled.

Quoted fields with commas inside them are read correctly, and any row that cannot be read is counted and reported rather than silently dropped.

What happens to them

Fills are paired per contract, in time order, into completed trades. Scaling in and out is one trade, with the entry and the exit size weighted. A fill that reverses you from long to short closes one trade and opens the next. A position still open at the end of the file is not a completed trade and is not imported.

The subjective layer is always yours to type. Plans, reviews, notes and screenshots never come from a file.

If your export leaves commissions out, realised R is unaffected. R is measured against your planned risk in points, so what a trade cost you in fees changes the money, not the multiple.