Interactive Brokers Trading Journal

Interactive Brokers is the institutional-grade brokerage that serious traders use for global market access. You can trade US equities, European futures, Asian forex, options on anything, and bonds -- all from one account. The platform is powerful but the export format reflects that complexity. IBKR CSVs contain multiple sections with repeated header rows, signed quantities, and more columns than most traders know what to do with.

That complexity makes manual journaling from IBKR data painful. Copying IBKR trades into a spreadsheet means parsing multi-section CSVs, figuring out which rows are trades versus adjustments, and mapping signed quantities to buy/sell directions. Most traders either give up on journaling entirely or do it so inconsistently that the data is useless.

Vigil handles the IBKR format complexity automatically. Upload your Flex Query CSV or standard trade report, and Vigil parses the multi-section format, extracts the trade rows, maps signed quantities to directions, and normalizes everything into a standard trade format. Then the AI audit engine checks every trade against your personal rules. Position sizing, daily loss limits, restricted instruments, timing rules -- whatever your plan requires. For IBKR traders who have been avoiding journaling because the export is too messy to deal with, Vigil eliminates that friction entirely.