Risk Management Badges

TradeLog automatically assigns a risk badge to each trade based on how you managed your stop loss and position. The badge is a short descriptive label that appears under the value in the Risk column, often with the amount currently at risk or locked in. It gives you instant insight into your trade management behavior -- there are no cryptic two-letter codes to memorize.

Badges on Open (Running) Trades

• Risk Free -- Your stop loss has been moved to breakeven (net of fees). No capital is at risk anymore, but no profit is locked in yet. This one carries no figure, because there is no longer a figure to carry.
• A padlock followed by +$X -- Your stop loss is in profit territory, locking in that amount net of fees no matter what happens next. It is the one state drawn as an icon plus a figure instead of a word. The word Locking Profits is what you get by hovering the dot.
• Fees −$X -- Your stop loss secures the entry price, but fees would still leave that small net loss. When the shortfall cannot be priced, it falls back to the words Covering Fees.
• Now $X -- You moved your stop loss closer to entry, so the money still at risk is $X rather than what you committed on entry. Row 2 states it only when that new figure actually differs from the entry commitment. The word for the move itself is SL Tightened, and it lives in the dot's tooltip.
• SL Extended -- You extended your stop loss beyond the initial stop. This state deliberately has NO row-2 figure: the extended number is the MAX RISK column's answer, and printing it twice a few centimetres apart is the repetition this cell was rebuilt to remove. The word lives in the dot's tooltip; the money is in the MAX RISK column — the figure on row 1 and its tooltip; row 2 of MAX RISK says what the stop did, not by how much. (Adding to a position is tracked by the separate Pyramiding tag, not this badge.)

Closed Trades -- and where each word actually lives

• Stop-Loss Hit -- The trade closed at your stop loss. A winning trailing-stop close reads "Stop Hit · In Profits".
• Take-Profit Hit -- The trade closed at your take profit.
• Closed Manually -- You closed the trade by hand.
• No Stop-Loss -- A red safety flag: the trade ran without a stop loss ever being set. Unlike the three close reasons above, this one IS on row 2 -- the top rung, the badge a collapsed row may never hide -- and it shows from the moment the position is live.
• Risk-Increased -- A red warning on a closed over-plan loss where the stop was extended during the trade, so the money at risk grew after entry. It reaches you as a tag chip and as a line in the MAX RISK tooltip, not as a row-2 badge.

How Badges Are Assigned

Badges are assigned automatically by comparing your entry price, stop loss, exit price, PnL, and the full stop-loss modification history. Row 2 is a single ladder and the highest rung that applies wins: a safety warning first (Currency mismatch, then No Stop-Loss), then Stop not reported, then the live-position statements above, and last the sizing verdict (On Plan, Below Plan, Over Plan). The close reason -- Stop-Loss Hit, Take-Profit Hit, Closed Manually -- no longer takes row 2 at all. It used to win on every closed row, which left the sizing verdict with nowhere to appear, so it moved to row 1's tooltips, where it now travels with the net result -- for example "Take-Profit Hit · net $420". The full stop-loss journey lives in that tooltip and in the Trade Detail Panel.