Trade Detail
Review one trade, its calculations, chart, journal context, fills, adjustments, levels, and sharing.
Trade Detail
Open a trade from the Trade Log, a dashboard, a timeline, Review, or a linked journal entry. The back action returns to the source when that context is available. Previous and next controls move through the related trade set. The left and right arrow keys do the same, and so do the J and K keys.
Summary
The header identifies the symbol, the futures contract, the direction, the status, and the result. A context line below it adds the asset class, the date, the open and close times, the duration, and the calendar week. The tile row shows the average entry, the quantity, and the excursion metrics. The gross P&L and adjustment tiles appear only in the currency and percentage display modes, and only when the trade has those values. A commission tile appears in every display mode when the trade has commission.
Net P&L includes commission and supported adjustments. Gross P&L excludes commission. An unconverted marker means that no exchange rate to the account currency was available for the trade date, so the amount stays in the instrument's currency. An "Excludes unconverted fees" marker means that one or more fees or adjustments are in another currency with no rate for their date, so they are left out of the total.
MFE is the most favorable excursion. MAE is the most adverse excursion. MCE measures the movement after close. Open each metric explanation to see its time window and source. A pending state means that market data or calculation work is not complete.
Use the review control to mark the trade reviewed or not reviewed. Assign strategies and tags from the header controls.
Chart
The chart shows available price data with execution markers, level markers, and the risk/reward zone. Change the timeframe to inspect another interval. The locate control scrolls back to the trade. Drawing tools are stored with the trade.
Chart settings control the candle colors, the grid, the crosshair, and the shape, size, labels, and colors of the execution markers. The settings apply to every chart, not to one trade.
Some instruments are drawn from a reference market instead of your broker's feed. A note under the chart names the instrument that was used and explains why prices can differ by a small amount.
When no price data is available, the chart area becomes an upload target. Drop a semicolon-separated CSV of candles — date and time, open, high, low, close — to draw the trade against your own data. The file is read in your browser and stays there.
No chart data does not mean that the trade is missing. Market data can be unavailable for the instrument, contract, or time range. The executions remain the source for the trade record.
Journal
The Journal area has four views:
- Trade note stores the note for this trade.
- Daily previews the journal entry for the trade date.
- Weekly previews the journal entry for that week.
- Linked notes shows pages, sessions, daily entries, and weekly entries that you linked to the trade.
Open a preview in Journal when you need the full editor. A shared account only shows journal content that its owner permitted.
Executions, adjustments, and levels
Executions determine direction, quantity, average prices, status, and trade P&L. You can add an execution only while the trade is open. A futures trade also needs a resolved contract. Edit or delete an execution only when you can reconcile the result with the broker statement. One trade cannot contain a position that crosses flat and reopens in the opposite direction.
Adjustments record swap, dividend, funding, borrow cost, or an additional commission. Each entry has a type, an amount in the account currency, and a date. The sign determines whether it adds to or removes from P&L. Imported adjustments can carry another currency.
Take-profit and stop-loss levels record the plan and its history. A level can show that it came from a broker. Replacing, hitting, or removing a level remains visible in its history.
Changes to executions, adjustments, instruments, or levels can recalculate P&L, result, risk ratios, and analytics.
Additional context
Custom fields use the account's field definitions. The empty state links to setup when no fields exist. Images can be added and removed from the trade. Supported formats are PNG, JPEG, and WebP, up to 10 MB per file. Images that were attached in a linked note also appear here.
Strategy compliance appears when a strategy with rules applies to the trade. Automatic rules show pass, fail, or not applicable. Manual rules stay unchecked until you check them. Tradeways does not infer a manual rule result.
Actions and recovery
The actions menu can edit the trade, change its instrument or contract, move it to another account, share it with a public link, share it to a community channel, force-close it, or delete it. Force close appears only while the trade is open. Available actions depend on trade status, ownership, and permissions.
Force close marks the trade closed at the current time and keeps the realized P&L of the executions that exist. It does not add a closing execution and does not price the quantity that is still open. Use it only when the actual exit cannot be recovered. Moving a trade can change its number and reporting context.
Delete moves the trade to the trash. You can restore it from there for 30 days.
A not-found state can mean that the trade was removed or that the account context does not allow access. A load error has a retry action. Do not recreate the trade until you confirm that the original record does not exist.
Sharing
Two share actions exist on the trade. Both are separate from account sharing and from mentoring access.
Public link
"Share trade" creates a read-only page at a public address. Anyone with the link can open it, and no account is needed.
The page shows the price chart with your entries and exits, the direction, the timing, the result, the price levels, the execution list, the stop-loss and take-profit levels that you set, and the excursion metrics. Your name, account, balance, fees, notes, tags, and other trades are never shown.
The page is a snapshot. It is captured when you create the link and again when you use Update. Later changes to the trade do not appear until you update the link. "Hide profit & loss" removes the P&L and the position size from the page. "Stop sharing" revokes the link, and the address stops working at once. A trade with more than 500 executions cannot be shared.
Community trade card
"Share to community" posts a trade snapshot to a channel in one of your communities. Select the community and the channel, and add an optional comment. The card can hide P&L in the same way as a public link. The channel list only contains channels where you can post. The card is immutable: later changes to the trade do not change the card.