Edit and Delete Trades

How to change trades with inline cell editing, and how to delete them

Every trade in TradeLog is edited inline. Click any cell in the journal table to change its value in a small popover -- there is no separate edit form or edit mode to switch into, and nothing to Save.

Edit a Trade Inline

To change anything about a trade, click the cell you want to edit. A popover opens where you set the new value, and the change is saved as soon as you confirm it. What is editable depends on the trade's lifecycle:

While a trade is a draft -- everything: symbol, direction, entry price, quantity, dates, stop loss, and take profit.
While it is running -- the exit price and exit date (closing it), plus stop loss and take profit.
Once it is closed -- the exit is immutable and SL/TP become display-only; core entry fields are locked.
At any time, on any status -- strategy, session, timeframe, setup grade, tags, images, notes, fees, and swap.

Editing a trade by clicking a cell directly in the journal table

There is no longer an "Edit" pencil or a pop-up edit form. To close a Running trade, simply add its Exit Price in the Exit cell -- the result, Net PnL, and auto-tags then update by themselves.

The Trade Detail Panel

Click anywhere on a trade row to open the Trade Detail Panel on the right. It gives you the full picture of the trade and is where you manage images, split a trade into partial closes, and (for manually entered and file-imported trades) revert a trade back to a draft -- live-synced trades, partial legs, and parents with legs cannot be reverted. The field values themselves are still edited in the table cells.

Core entry fields (symbol, direction, entry price, quantity) lock once the trade is live, and a closed trade's exit is immutable -- so your journal matches what actually filled. To correct core data on a manually entered or file-imported trade, open the Trade Detail Panel and revert it to a draft first.

Deleting a Trade

Each row has a trash icon at the end. Click it to remove the trade. Real trades ask you to confirm before anything is deleted; an unfinished draft row shows a quick "Discard draft" confirmation. Individual legs of a grouped (partial or pyramided) trade can also be deleted from their own trash icon. On auto-synced accounts the delete button is disabled (with an explanatory tooltip) because trades are broker truth -- re-syncing corrects data instead of manual deletion.

Deleting a trade permanently removes it and all of its images, and it cannot be undone. For a trade you might still want to finish, revert it to a draft from the Trade Detail Panel instead of deleting it.

Closing a Running trade is just an edit, not a new entry: click its Exit cell and enter the exit price. You never need to delete and re-create a trade to close it.

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