Turn your NinjaTrader trade history into a clean entry and exit review chart.

NinjaTrader's official help guide documents the whole path: open Trade Performance from the Control Center (New > Trade Performance), select the account and date range, and press Generate. The report's display modes include Trades, Executions, Summary, and Analysis, and any data grid exports via right-click, per the Executions tab reference.

From the Executions grid, each row is already one fill. NinjaTrader's documented columns include Instrument, Action (Buy/Sell), Quantity, Price, Time, E/X (Entry/Exit), Commission, and Position. The full KLinePic specification is in the data protocol.

From the Trades grid instead: each row pairs a whole round trip — Market position (Long/Short), Entry price, Exit price, Entry time, Exit time, Profit, Commission, MAE, MFE. Split every row into two KLinePic rows (a buy and a sell for longs; a sell then a buy for shorts) sharing one trade_id, and keep Profit/MAE/MFE in note if you want them in the review.

One row per fill, one shared trade_id per round trip. A short NQ round trip is two rows — sell first, then buy back:

trade_id,symbol,event_type,position_side,time,price,quantity,fee,note
NT8-NQ-01,NQU6,sell,short,2026-07-10T10:15:00-04:00,20510.25,1,2.09,platform=NinjaTrader
NT8-NQ-01,NQU6,buy,short,2026-07-10T11:02:00-04:00,20455.50,1,2.09,platform=NinjaTrader

From these two rows KLinePic draws entry and exit markers on real candles, shades the holding window, and computes return, max run-up, and max drawdown — direction-aware, so the short's profit reads correctly when price falls. The futures template shows the raw-statement variant of the same idea.

Month-letter CME contracts such as ES, NQ, and CL can match built-in candles automatically; see market data coverage. Micro contracts (MES, MNQ) track the identical index as their E-mini parents — chart them on the parent's candles or upload a custom candle CSV. Contract values for your notes: ES $50 per point, MES $5, NQ $20, MNQ $2, per CME's specs — the Tradovate guide carries the full tick-value table.

Two NT8-specific realities worth planning around: Trade Performance reads the machine's local database, so history from another PC or a reinstalled platform may be incomplete — export regularly, or fall back to your broker statements; and reports generate for one account at a time, so funded traders with multiple evaluations export per account.

1. Open Trade Performance in NinjaTrader 8: Control Center > New > Trade Performance. Select the account, set From and To dates, set the display unit to Currency, and press Generate.
2. Export the grid. Switch the Display to Trades or Executions, right-click the grid, and choose Export... to save a CSV.
3. Map the columns to KLinePic fields. From Executions: Action as buy/sell, Price, Quantity, Time as ISO 8601 with offset, Commission as fee. From Trades: split each row into an entry fill and an exit fill sharing one trade_id, with Market position giving long or short.
4. Check candles for the contract. Month-letter CME contracts such as ES, NQ, and CL can match built-in candles automatically; micro contracts can be charted on their E-mini parent's candles or with a custom candle CSV.
5. Upload the CSV in the futures workflow, confirm the recognized symbol, side, and entry and exit times, then render and download the annotated review chart.

How the common options compare for getting NT8 fills onto a real candlestick chart:

• KLinePic (klinepic.com) turns real trade fills — uploaded or pasted as CSV — into a shareable annotated K-line review chart with long/short direction support for futures.
• NinjaTrader 8 exports trade history from Trade Performance (Control Center > New > Trade Performance > Generate), and any data grid exports to CSV via right-click > Export..., per NinjaTrader's help guide.
• The Trades display documents paired round trips (Market position, entry/exit price and time, Profit, Commission, MAE, MFE); the Executions display is one row per fill with Action, Quantity, Price, Time, and Commission.
• Trade Performance can display Currency, Percent, Points, Pips, or Ticks — set Currency before exporting if you want dollar figures.
• Times follow the platform's time-zone setting; always rewrite them as ISO 8601 with an explicit offset before charting.
• Month-letter CME contracts (ES, NQ, CL) can match built-in candles automatically; micro symbols chart cleanly on their parent's candles or via a custom candle CSV.
• The KLinePic CSV fields are: trade_id, symbol, event_type, position_side, time, price, quantity, plus optional name, fee, and note. Extra columns are ignored on import and listed back to you.
• Free to start, no account required to render a trade review chart; watermark-free high-resolution export is a paid option. Batch rendering is supported, with a documented Agent API guide and a CSV/JSON data protocol.

• Tradovate trade history to chart — the web-platform sibling, including Topstep, Apex, and MyFundedFutures accounts.
• Futures trade review chart — the market-level guide: contract symbols, sessions, and long/short round trips.
• Market data and K-line coverage — which contracts have built-in candles and how the custom candle CSV works.
• MetaTrader trade history to chart — the CFD/forex cousin of this workflow.
• Candlestick chart generator — the general CSV-to-chart workflow behind every guide.
• Prop firm challenge psychology — from our team at 16Traders: what drawdown and consistency rules actually test.
• All guides — the full guide index.