Portfolio Overview & Returns
Located directly below the main timeline chart, the Portfolio Overview section serves as your financial baseline workspace. This section condenses your raw ledger into three core operational panels tracking your active account liquidity, net absolute trading returns, and platform friction costs allowing you to benchmark your real-time performance variations against your all-time historical averages.
This gives you an honest snapshot of your account's health. It tracks your total balance, your floating unrealized P&L, and your period flow. Crucially, it calculates your risk-adjusted capital showing you exactly what your liquid account looks like right now while active positions are open.
A healthy reading shows a risk-adjusted balance that closely matches your total balance, indicating safe leverage. A dangerous reading features a massive gap between total balance and risk-adjusted balance, proving your account heat is too high and a single market drop could trigger a margin call.
This completely removes the illusion of paper profits. It forces you to look at the exact amount of money you actually own right now, protecting you from taking on fresh, impulsive risk based on open winning setups that haven't crossed the finish line.
Balance Overview
This central panel provides a snapshot of your account’s health, tracking your current liquidity and how your equity shifted during your selected timeframe.
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
Total Balance | The current total monetary value of your portfolio. |
Worst-Case Balance | Your projected balance if every open position hits its stop-loss level. |
Unrealized P&L | The floating profit or loss from active trades that have not yet been closed. |
Open Position Scenarios | Visual outcome range comparing potential balance impact if all stop-losses hit vs. if all targets hit. |
Current standing | Real-time risk feedback highlighting balance solvency and open-position exposure. |
Opening Balance | Your starting account balance at the beginning of the selected timeframe. |
Change | The net monetary gain or loss and percentage change recorded during the selected period. |
Closing Balance | Your ending account balance at the close of the selected timeframe. |
This period | An analytical overview summarizing growth highlights, booked trades, and streak alerts for the date range. |
Cumulative Returns
This panel isolates your actual trading performance. By splitting the data side-by-side into All-Time and Selected Period, you can easily compare your recent momentum against your historical baseline.
This panel isolates your actual trading performance. By breaking down your Net Realized P&L alongside your total gross profit and gross loss, it compares your recent trading momentum directly against your all time historical baseline.
Good metrics show an upward trending Net Realized P&L where gross profits comfortably outpace gross losses. Bad metrics show a flat or negative Net P&L despite having a massive Profit number, meaning your lack of a stop loss is allowing a few big losers to completely wipe out your winning trades.
It cuts through the noise of floating balances to show exactly what you have secured in cold hard cash. By splitting the view, it instantly highlights whether your strategy is currently hot or if your recent period is underperforming your historical average.
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
Net Realized P&L | The total net profit or loss locked in from all closed trades, comparing lifetime performance against your selected date range. |
Profit | The total cumulative earnings generated strictly from your winning setups. |
Loss | The total cumulative capital lost strictly from your losing trades. |
Fees | Lifetime trading fees. This is the gap between gross Profit minus Loss and your Net Realized P&L. |
Profit vs. Loss Split | Visual distribution bar illustrating the percentage breakdown of gross gains versus gross losses. |
Performance Insights | Smart status callout summarizing trade execution consistency, win streaks, and overall account profitability. |
Trading Costs
An often-ignored area that drastically impacts long-term survivability. This panel reveals exactly how much capital you are leaking to your exchange or platform.
An often ignored area that drastically impacts long term survivability. This panel exposes the exact amount of capital you are leaking to your exchange or platform through total fees paid, your average fee per trade, and your overall Fee Drag.
A low Fee Drag percentage means you are highly efficient and you keep what you kill. A high Fee Drag means your execution costs are toxic, and you are bleeding out to commissions, spreads, and funding rates.
This is a harsh reality check for active traders. If you are scalping frequently but your Fee Drag is excessively high, you are essentially working harder for your broker than for yourself. This metric forces you to slow down, take higher quality setups, and ensure your edge actually outpaces your execution costs.
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
Total Fees Paid | The total monetary amount paid in broker commissions, exchange fees, and execution costs across all trades. |
Fee Drag | Total fees divided by gross realized profit. A 5% fee drag means five cents of every dollar you earned went to fees. |
Avg / Trade | Total fees divided by the number of closed trades. |
Cost Efficiency Summary | Smart status callout evaluating fee impact relative to portfolio growth and lifetime commission totals. |
The Trading Edge: Pay close attention to the Trading Costs panel, specifically your Fee Drag. If your trading strategy is highly active (like scalping) but your Fee Drag is excessively high, you are essentially working harder for your broker than you are for yourself. This metric is a harsh reality check to ensure your system’s edge actually outpaces your execution costs.
Next Up: See how live exposure and capital movements fit together in Cash Flow & Open Positions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers based on this page's topic.
Worst-Case Balance displays your total portfolio valuation dynamically adjusted for active market exposure, showing your balance scenario if every open position hits its defined stop-loss threshold.