Dashboard

Your trading performance is updated automatically each time you add a new trade, dividend or update the market prices. The Dashboard provides a summary of key performance measures to help assess how you trading strategies are performing. Combined with the Filter you can analyse and report on all your trades, just a single portfolio and even a single trade.

Performance Measures

The following provides a list and definition of each performance measure on the dashboard

#Open Positions: the number of positions currently open in the market

#Closed Trades: the number of sold trades

#Total Trades: the total number of trades open plus closed

#Winning Trades: the number of trades open or closed that are currently in profit

#Losing Trades: the number of trades open or closed that are currently losing or have lost money

Win%: the % of winning or losing trades

Avg Win P&L: average profit and loss for winning trades

Avg Loss P&L: average profit and loss for losing trades

Win/Loss Ratio: average winning profit / loss divided by average losing profit / loss

Gross Profits: total profits for open positions and sold trades including brokerage

Gross Losses: total losses for open positions and sold trades including brokerage

Profit Factor: total of all profits divided by total of all losses. A number greater than 2 is good a number between 0 and 2 is fair and a number less than 0 is poor

Open Position Costs: total costs for positions current open, excludes brokerage

Open Position Market Value: current market value for open positions

Unrealised Gross P&L: Open Position Market Value less Open Position Costs

Sold Trade Buy Costs: buy costs for all sold trades, excludes brokerage

Sold Trade Sold Value: sold value for all trades excluding brokerage

Realised Gross P&L: Sold Trades Sold Value less Sold Trades Buy Costs

Net Costs: the costs for all open positions and sold buy trades

Net Market Value: total market value includes open positions and closed trades

Gross Trading P&L: Net Market Value less Net Costs, excludes brokerage

Net P&L: Gross Trading P&L less brokerage, interest costs plus dividend income

Selected Portfolio: if the Filter is used to select a single portfolio it is displayed here

Portfolio Starting Balance: the starting balance for the selected portfolio

Portfolio Return: the return for the portfolio based from the starting balance. Includes the net profit / loss, the dividend income and any interest for the portfolio.

Dividend Income: the total dividend income for trades open and closed

Interest: interest captured in the interest worksheet is displayed here

Total Commission Paid: total brokerage for all trades is recorded here

If a Portfolio is selected via the Filter then only the values for that Portfolio will be displayed on the Dashboard.