The Trades table

Trades is the ledger. Every figure on every other page in the Tracker is built from these rows, which makes this the surface you come to when a number looks wrong — it is where you find out whether it is wrong or whether you have misread the window.

The four figures above the table

Net P&L, Profit factor, Win rate and Win / loss ratio — and they are computed over everything your filters match, not over the page you are looking at. Filter to one symbol and they describe that symbol across the whole window, not the twenty-five rows on screen.

Two of them are computed differently here than on the Performance board, and it is worth knowing which. This page’s Win rate counts wins against wins plus losses, leaving breakevens out; the board’s Trade Win % puts breakevens in the denominator. And this page’s “Win / loss ratio” is a MONEY ratio — average win against average loss — while the board’s tile of almost the same name is a COUNT ratio, winning trades against losing trades. What sits under the figure tells you which one you are reading: this page’s tile always prints the raw counts — “12W / 8L” — while the board’s prints “: 1” and shows those counts only when there is no ratio to give.

The columns

Twenty-one, grouped, and you choose which are on. Symbol, Status and Net P&L are locked and can never be switched off — identity, outcome, result, the floor a row has to have to be a row.

• Trade info — Symbol, Account, Direction, Status.
• Performance — Net P&L, ROI, R : R, Fees.
• Prices — Entry, Exit, Contracts.
• Dates — Entry date, Exit date, Duration.
• Metrics — Rating, R-multiple, MFE, MAE.
• Meta — Strategy, Tags, Notes.

Four presets cover most of it — Default (sixteen columns), Minimal (Symbol, Status, Net P&L, Entry date), All and None — and every preset puts the three locked columns back regardless. A group can also be collapsed to its primary column, which is how you keep Net P&L without also carrying ROI, R:R and Fees.

What the less obvious ones mean

• Status — win, loss, breakeven or open — derived from NET P&L, not gross. Fees can turn a gross win into a net loss, and the column tells you what actually happened rather than what nearly did.
• Fees — commission and fees summed as one signed cost. Exactly zero prints as a plain $0.00 rather than a negative.
• R : R — your PLANNED reward against your planned risk, from the stop and target you logged. It is direction-checked — a long has to target above entry with the stop below — so an incoherent plan gives you nothing rather than a plausible-looking negative ratio.
• R-multiple — what you actually made, measured in units of the risk you planned. A trade with no stop logged has no R at all and is left blank rather than counted as zero.
• MFE and MAE — the best and the worst the trade was ever showing before it closed — how far it ran your way, and how far against.
• Duration — entry fill to exit fill. Read it next to Status: if your average winner is held for less time than your average loser, you are cutting winners and giving losers room.

Dates and times are shown in the timezone saved on your profile, not your browser’s, so a fill can never land in a different row from the calendar cell that counts it.

Narrowing it down

A search box, a Filters popover and the date range. The popover holds symbol, strategy, a Result segment (win, loss, breakeven), a Direction segment and a P&L range you type in dollars; it applies as a batch when you press Apply. The date range is page-scope and commits immediately. Whatever is applied shows as removable chips in the toolbar beside the search box.

There is no account filter here, and its absence is deliberate rather than missing. Which accounts you are reading is the navbar picker’s job and nothing else’s — a second control over the same choice, two bands apart, is how the two end up disagreeing.

Every one of these controls writes itself into the page address. That is what makes a filtered view something you can bookmark, reload, send to someone, and step back out of with the Back button. Sorting is the same: click a column header, and the order travels with the rest.

Opening a row

Clicking a trade opens a panel with three tabs.

• Overview — the trade’s identity and its figures, plus the setup chart you can attach to it.
• Notes & tags — what you thought, and the labels you put on the trade — assigned here from your own vocabulary and shown in the Tags column. There is no tag facet in the Filters popover yet, so a tag is something you read on a row rather than something you can narrow the table by.
• Executions — the actual fills behind the trade, loaded the first time you open the tab — entry fill, scale in, partial exit, exit fill. This is the tab that shows you a trade is one position rather than five.

Changing a trade

The row kebab offers View details, Edit trade, Transfer trade, Duplicate trade and Delete trade. All five always render — an action that is not available on a particular row goes disabled with the word “Unavailable” beside it rather than vanishing, because a verb that does not exist here and a verb that exists and is currently unavailable are different statements and should not look the same.

Tick rows and a second menu appears in the header with the two actions that make sense on a set: Transfer and Delete, up to five hundred trades at a time.

Transfer, Duplicate and Delete all open a confirmation first, on a row and on a selection alike, and the confirmation names what is about to change rather than asking you to remember. Take the deletion wording literally: a deleted trade takes its notes with it, drops out of every report and out of the equity curve, and there is no restore control anywhere in the product today. If you are unsure, transfer it to another account instead — that is reversible and a delete is not.

Editing opens the same drawer that adds a trade, so there is nothing new to learn. A save the service refuses puts one notice at the top of the form — “This trade was not saved” — and lists every rejected field under it in the service’s own words, so you are told which field and which rule rather than only that something went wrong.

Pages

Twenty-five rows by default, with ten and fifty as the alternatives. Page one and the default size are left out of the address, so the resting URL for this page is just /tracker/trades — a clean thing to bookmark.