Site Guide
- Exporting Trades Trades From Your Broker
- Importing Your Trades
- Generic Import Format
- Creating Trading Journal Entries
- Charts and Analytical Dashboard
- Net/Gross Preference
- Cumulative Profts and Losses
- Trade Ticket Count
- Daily Profits and Losses
- Calendar View
- Trades and Trade Details
- Trade Notes and Sharing Preferences
- Profit Trifecta Rank
- Trade Performance by Strategy/Tag
Importing your Trades
Once you've signed up, the navigation menu will provide a menu item labeled "Import Trades". It will take you to the following page where you will select your broker:
Once you've selected your broker and click "Next", you're brought to the upload page. Here you will select the export file you have obtained from your broker.
If you are unsure what that is or how to find it for your broker, check out the
broker help page for assistance.
Once you've selected a file and click next, the file will be uploaded and you will see your trades being processed:
Once the trade import process is complete, you will be notified and invited to the
dashboard to look at charts, metrics,
and other visualizations related to your trades.
Trading Journal
Once you login to the site, the "Traders Tools" menu contains a subsection for Trading journal. You can click "View Your Journal" to see your journal live,
or you can manage your journal. Managing your journal gives you the ability to enter a journal name and description, along with text editing features similar to word.
Images can even be added here by either uploading them once you click the image icon, or you can just paste and image directly from your keyboard (as in from
a screen capture of a trade).
Journal entries can be created from here, as well as edited or deleted. While creating or editing entries, you are given the same abilities to markup your entry with word-like
text editing features along with the image uploading capabilities.
Tag and category functionality is also offered on the journal entry pages and their use emphasized in an effort to organize your journal making it easy to find historic notes on
similar situations arising.
Traders Dashboard
Once you login to the site, you're brought to the dashboard. Here you will get a "2 Week Quickview" that shows how many green days you've had in a row, your accuracy, and profit and loss ratio.
You're also shown charts displaying daily gains/losses, cumulative profts and losses (equity curve), trade ticket counts, and volume traded.
By default these charts show you the last month's worth of data figured in net values. The date range and gross/net preference can be modified by adjusting the them in the menu and clicking on "Filter" as shown:
Net/Gross Preference
By default the charts, statistics, and visualizations are set to reflect values according to net values, values that consider commissions and other fees. This behavior can be changed by selecting your preference in the side menu
and clicking on "Filter" as shown:
Cumulative PnL Chart
This chart tracks your overall losses and gains. It allows you to monitor how much you've profited or lost across time and is shown at the day level. This chart is filtered according to the date and net/gross filters on the side menu.
Trade Ticket Count
This chart tracks how many times you traded overall. It includes all entries and exits, as well as adds and scale outs. This chart is filtered according to the date filters on the side menu.
Daily Profits and Losses
This chart tracks your profits and losses by the day. This chart is filtered according to the date filters as well as the gross / net option on the side menu.
Trading Calendar View
This chart reflects daily profits and losses along with ticket counts by the day in a calendar view. This chart is filtered according to the date filters as well as the gross / net option on the side menu.
Trades and Trade Details
This page shows all of your trades in a grid format. It shows gross and net numbers, and all fees and commissions. You can filter and sort on most fields at the top of the grid:
Clicking a row expands it and reveals individual entry, exit, adds and takes that your trade was comprised of:
Clicking the chart icon will reveal a candlesick chart with all related trades plotted:
Hovering your mouse over one of those price points will cause it to display the PnL in gross and net form:
The "More..." button at the right of each trade summery will open a window that will allows you to add notes, mark the trade with tags, and select your sharing preferences for the overall trade:
Trade Notes and Sharing Preferences
The "More..." button at the right of each trade summery will open a window that will allows you to add notes, mark the trade with tags, and select your sharing preferences for the overall trade:
Warrior Trading "Profit Trifecta" Calculator
Ross Cameron created a unique way metric to allow traders to score theirself on their trading abilities and better see progress in their journey to improve those abilities. We have created a calculator
to automate these scoring system based on your trades. Traders are able to view their score by the week or by the month. You can hover over each gauge for detailed information regarding the score. For
instance, hovering over the weekly gauge reveals that the trader has had 3 consistent 3 weeks for a score of 4.
Click the link to learn more about the
Profit Trifecta scoring system.