Until October 2026, a trade you logged yourself could appear a second time when your broker sync brought in the same trade. The two rows were labelled Manual and Sync, and the synced one usually showed a different time.
What was wrong
- The time. The sync stored the broker's timestamp as it arrived, in UTC, instead of converting it to your Trade Timezone. A fill at the 9:30 New York open was filed at 13:30, four hours late (five in winter).
- The match. The sync only recognised trades it had brought in itself. A trade you entered by hand looked new to it, so it added a copy.
- Trades that closed later. A trade synced while it was still open didn't update when you closed it at the broker. It stayed open in your journal.
What happens now
- Synced times are converted to your Trade Timezone.
- Trades synced before the fix are moved to the right time on the next sync. A time you changed yourself is left alone.
- When a synced trade matches exactly one trade you logged (same symbol, side and size, entry price within a few cents, entry date within a day), it's merged into yours. Your trade keeps its notes, stop, target and setup, and takes the broker's prices, time and fees. If it could be more than one of your trades, it waits for you to choose. See Review synced trades before they're added.
- An open synced trade updates when the broker closes it.
Pairs that are already in your journal
You don't need to do anything. On the next sync, a Sync copy that matches exactly one trade you logged is folded into yours: your trade keeps its notes, stop, target and setup, takes anything the copy had that yours didn't (notes, a rating, an alert), and gets the broker's prices, time and fees. The copy is then removed. A copy that could be more than one of your trades is left as it is.
If you already deleted the Sync copy
Deleting a synced trade also excludes it from sync, so it can't be merged into yours afterwards. Your own trade keeps the price and time you typed. To let the next sync merge it, use Reset & re-import excluded trades in Settings → Data, then sync. That resets every exclusion: other synced trades you deleted come back too, unless they match a trade you logged.