How to Export Your Qtrade Account History for Tax Calculation
Qtrade Direct Investing keeps every transaction since the account was opened on its Account history screen and lets you download it as an Excel file. Follow these steps to export it and upload it to the ACB calculator, which reads the file directly.
Log In to Qtrade
Go to qtrade.ca and sign in from a computer. The Qtrade app has an Account history link under its Accounts button, but no export from the app is documented, so use the website for the download.
Open Account History
From your account summary, select Account history for your non-registered account. Qtrade describes this screen as showing every transaction on the account since inception, including buys, sells, transfers, deposits, stock splits and dividends.
Set the Date Range
Request the widest date range and press Go to refresh the list. Check the first and last exported rows against your records. The history visible online may exceed what a single download contains. ACB is cumulative, so one year on its own gives the wrong cost base for anything bought earlier. If you sold at a loss in December, extend the range through January 30 of the following year so January repurchases are included.
Came over from Credential Direct? Qtrade told migrated clients their full Credential Direct transaction history would be available through Qtrade’s platform, so the same screen should reach back past the move.
Download the Excel File
Use the page icon above the history table to download it as an Excel file. The printer icon beside it opens a print view, which is not what you want. The layout ActiveACB supports has nine columns. They are Entry Date, Settlement Date, Action, Qty, Symbol, Description, Price, Comm. and Net Amount.
Upload the file as downloaded. The calculator recognizes it by those nine column names, rather than a particular filename or sheet name. A copy re-saved from a spreadsheet can change how dates and quantities are stored.
Upload to ActiveACB
Drop the file on the calculator. It is labelled QTRADE XLSX and read directly, with no column mapping. BUY and SELL rows take their cash from the Net Amount column. TRUST INC&PARTNERSHP DIST rows are recorded as income under the fund. EFT rows are deposits and withdrawals and change nothing.
Canadian dollars, non-registered accounts only. The export names neither its account nor its currency, so every file is treated as a taxable account in Canadian dollars and every symbol as a TSX listing. Leave TFSA, RRSP and other registered account exports out, and tell support before uploading the US-dollar side of an account.
Some return of capital rows have no amount. The sample used to develop the parser contains ROC COST ADJ rows with blank amounts. ActiveACB names those unapplied rows and uses return of capital factors where it covers the fund and year. For other holdings, obtain the distribution amounts and dates from the fund or broker and reconcile them with Box 42 of your T3 before entering the missing adjustments. Do not apply an annual total a second time if those distributions are already included.
Internal transfers. Units moved between your own accounts appear as INTERNAL TRANSFER rows with no price. They are listed on the transfers card and neither added to nor removed from your cost base. Upload the other account’s history alongside, or enter the cost in the trade editor.
Commissions changed in October 2025. Qtrade moved to $0 commissions on stocks and ETFs on October 28, 2025, with options at $0.75 a contract. Older rows may include commissions, and other charges can still apply. Use the amounts actually shown in your export. Net Amount is what the calculation uses either way.
Mutual funds post a day late. Qtrade sends fund orders to the fund company at the end of the trading day, and the transaction appears in Account history on the next business day.
Early support, and your file helps. Qtrade support is newer than IBKR, Questrade or Wealthsimple and was built from real customer exports. To keep improving it, each Qtrade file you upload is kept privately for 7 days and then deleted, as the privacy policy describes. You can turn this off on your profile page. Rows the parser does not recognize are never guessed at, and each one is named in your warnings with its row number.
Before you file from the slip, see why your Qtrade T5008 may not reflect your true ACB.
Which Qtrade tax slips should I expect?
For a non-registered account, Qtrade’s Tax Centre put the T5, the T5008 and the Trading Disposition Summary in the week of March 2, 2026 for the 2025 tax year, and the T3 and T5013 in the week of March 31. Quebec residents receive the matching Relevé slips.
The Account history file is still the better source for an adjusted cost base calculation. Request enough history to include the original purchases and all later trades and cost-base changes, then check that the export actually includes them. The slips and the Trading Disposition Summary describe one account for one year, and Qtrade says the book cost on them is not guaranteed.
The schedule comes from Qtrade’s Tax Centre.
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