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Action Timeline

See the real order of fills — how a position was built and reduced

Some positions are more than one entry and one exit: you scale in, take partials, maybe reverse. The Action Timeline shows the real, fill-by-fill story of such a position — exactly what happened, in order.

Opening the Timeline

In the journal, look at the Status column: when TradeLog has captured a position's fill history, a small count in brackets appears right after the status — for example CLOSED [5]. Click the number and the Action timeline opens in a window. The count appears once a position has at least 3 recorded actions — a plain one-entry, one-exit trade has nothing extra to show.

The bracketed count next to a trade's status opens the Action timeline

What You See

  • Every fill in chronological order, labeled by what it did to the position: Opened, Scaled-in, Scaled-out, Closed, or Reversed.
  • Time, quantity, and price of each fill, plus the position size remaining after it ('Net after').
  • Risk on entry fills and Result on reducing fills (where available), and the fees per fill.
  • 'Position still open' while the position is running, and a 'Partial history' note when TradeLog only started capturing mid-position.

Which Trades Have It

The timeline is built from fill data captured during sync, so it appears on positions from Tradovate (auto-sync and CSV import), the cTrader API connection, and the crypto exchange connections (Binance, Bybit, OKX). The Risk column is currently filled for Tradovate positions; on other platforms it shows a dash.

The timeline is read-only — it never changes your trades. Use it to check how disciplined your scaling really was: did you add to winners or to losers?

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