A Robinhood trading journal is a record of your Robinhood trades with what the app's history leaves out: the plan before each entry, the result in R and whether the rules were followed. Instead of typing every fill, you generate the account activity report as a CSV file and import it.
How to get the report
- In Robinhood, open Account › Reports and statements.
- Choose Account activity report, then Generate new report.
- Pick the account and the start and end dates.
- Wait for the notification. Robinhood says most reports take about 2 hours and some up to 24 hours.
- Download the CSV from Reports.
The report covers brokerage and retirement accounts. Futures and crypto activity are not in it.
What the report contains
Each line is one transaction, with Activity Date, Instrument, Trans Code, Quantity and Price. The Trans Code says what happened:
| Trans Code | Meaning in the journal |
|---|---|
| Buy | Opens or adds to a long |
| Sell | Reduces or closes a long |
| Option codes, dividends, deposits, interest and other codes | Not stock trades: left out |
Two things are missing compared with other brokers. The dates have no time of day, so trades on the same day keep the file's order. And there is no fee column, so imported trades show no costs; regulatory fees on sales are small, but add them by hand if you want net figures to the cent.
Worked example (illustrative numbers)
Illustrative numbers only. The report shows, for a made-up ticker XMPL, Buy 40 at $90.00 on 1 April, Buy 20 at $88.00 on 3 April and Sell 60 at $95.00 on 14 April. The import makes one closed long trade of 60 shares with an average entry of $89.33 and a gain of $340. With the plan's stop of $86.00 added in the journal, the average risk was $3.33 a share, so the trade made about +1.7R, and the review can check whether adding the second buy below the first was part of the plan.
After the import
An imported trade has fills and fees but no plan. For each one, add the stop you planned, the target, the setup and one line on why you took the trade. That turns the P&L into R, lets the statistics group trades by setup, and gives the review something to compare the execution with. Then set a fixed time each week to read the closed trades; see how to review your trades.
Common mistakes
- Expecting an instant download. The report has to be generated first; request it before you sit down to review.
- A period that starts mid-position. Sales whose purchase is before the start date are left out. Begin on a day with no open positions.
- Options and crypto. Option lines are skipped and crypto isn't in the report: the journal covers US stocks and ETFs.
- Stopping at the import. Add the stop and setup to each trade to see R and check the rules.
In Clear Tape
In the trade journal (Journal in the dashboard menu), Import CSV has a Robinhood preset that reads the account activity report's columns by name, takes the Buy and Sell lines for stocks and skips the rest. The file is read in your browser, only the trades are sent, and Clear Tape never connects to your Robinhood account. The preview lists the trades found, the lines left out with the reason, and trades already in the journal. The import is free on every plan; see the trade journal page. Other brokers: import trades from any broker's CSV.
To check the habits in this export before importing it, open it in the free trade history analyzer, which recognizes the Robinhood file.
For educational purposes only. Not investment advice.