Reading the Dashboard

The Dashboard is seven readings of the same ledger. It opens with your balance and how it splits, then the three headline ratios, then cash flow over the window, your budget, and two views of the year. If any one of those seven cannot be read, the page shows a single failure panel with the reason and a reference rather than filling the gap with a plausible number.

Portfolio Life — the balance and where it sits

The headline is the sum of every successful transaction you have logged against a platform, for all time — the Included checkbox does not narrow it. It is earnings less expenses with the fees already folded in, which means it is the one number that answers “after everything, what is this habit worth”. There is an eye beside it that swaps the figure for a mask, for when someone is looking over your shoulder.

Underneath it splits two ways. The Prop and Personal chips partition your platforms by whether they are prop firms, and they disappear entirely rather than showing zeroes if you have not registered anything. The accounts list beneath gives each platform its share of the cash that moved in the window.

That share is computed on movement rather than on net, and it is worth knowing why: a withdrawal adds to “cash moved” instead of cancelling out the payout it came from, and fees are left out because a fee is a deduction from a movement rather than a movement of its own.

The three headline tiles

• Earnings vs Expenses — the two sides of the window, as a bar. This one splits on the SIGN of each row rather than on its type, so it is money in against money out — unlike the Budget page’s Spent, which counts only the expense types. Nothing moved in the window leaves the bar unknown rather than showing it half filled.
• Portfolio ROI — earnings minus expenses, divided by expenses. Read it as cost recovery — not as a return on capital.
• Portfolio Health — a composite score. Nothing in the product computes one yet, so on your own page this tile shows its empty state; the figure you see in Demo Mode is part of the sample data.

ROI here is the number people misread most, so it is worth being exact. You do not deposit into a prop firm — you buy an evaluation — so a return on deposited capital would be measuring against a denominator that does not exist. What this divides by is what the relationships cost you, which makes it answer a question you can act on: has the money I have spent chasing funding come back yet. Spend nothing and it shows a dash rather than a zero, because a ratio over an empty denominator is unknown.

Cash Flow Overview

Earnings against expenses over the window you have set, with the net stated above the chart. That net is the sum of exactly the bars drawn beneath it — added up on the server, from the same buckets — so the headline and the picture can never describe different periods. Its comparison is the second half of the window against the first half, not this month against last: a window you chose the ends of has no previous period to compare to.

The card offers Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly. Only the Monthly view has data behind it today — the other two draw the chart’s empty state rather than a different shape of the same figures.

Budget Overview and Category Insights

A read-only view of what you set on the Budget page. The edit item in this card’s menu is not wired here and will tell you so — a budget is set from Portfolio › Budget, where the toolbar carries the button for it.

The Quarterly Calendar

Twelve months of net, with the year’s total above them. A month with no transactions in it prints a dash rather than $0, because “nothing happened” and “it netted out to nothing” are different claims about your year. The total above is always the true sum of the cells beneath it.

The year arrows move the cursor, but the page does not fetch another year for them yet — step off the current year and you will see a correctly labelled but empty grid until you step back.

Transaction Breakdown

Five fixed rows: Payouts, Platform fees, Subscriptions, Taxes and Withdrawals. It is a coarser grouping than the twelve types you log against, and it has not caught up with all of them — Platform fees covers fees and evaluation resets, Subscriptions reads your Tools spend, and the Taxes row is not connected to the Tax category at all, so it prints zero even when you have logged one.

Treat it as a shape rather than a reconciliation. The Transactions ledger, filtered by type, is the surface to trust when you want the exact figure for a kind of spend.