Risk Zone Colors

TradeLog colors the Risk column to visually indicate the risk health of each trade. The colors apply to the cell's text, dot, and badge (not the cell background) and help you quickly scan your journal. Read them as TWO lenses, not one list: row 1 -- the amount and the dot -- answers "how much is at stake", and it has only grey, red, white and a hollow outline. Row 2 -- the badge -- answers "what state is this trade in", and it is the wider palette below. That is why a green badge can sit under a white figure.

The Risk State Colors

• Green -- Locking Profits: your stop loss locks in a net-of-fees profit. The safest state, and a row-2 badge only. (Row 1 stays white -- a risk figure is never green.)
• White -- Protected: your stop secures breakeven (Risk Free) or leaves only fees uncovered (Covering Fees). No meaningful capital at risk.
• Indigo (cyan in dark mode) -- Now $X: a live reading. Your stop is still at risk but no longer where you left it, so row 2 states the money that is at risk right now. It is the app's own accent colour, used here because this is the one badge reporting a moving number rather than a verdict.
• Amber -- A setup problem rather than a trade problem: a fixed-amount risk profile linked to an account in a different currency, so TradeLog withholds the figure instead of converting it. Amber also colours the at-risk steps inside the stop-loss journey tooltip. It is no longer a sizing colour -- sized on plan or below it is grey, not amber.
• Red -- Danger: over-plan sizing, no stop loss at all, or a closed loss that ran past 1R BECAUSE the stop was widened (the Risk-Increased case, which forces row 1 red on its own). A stop that was merely widened is NOT red by itself -- the entry commitment is judged against the plan it was sized to, and the widening is reported by the MAX RISK column.
• Grey -- Nothing to flag: a trade sized on plan or below it, or Stop not reported -- the state where the broker never sent the stop level, which is deliberately never red because it is TradeLog's gap, not yours. On row 2 grey always comes from the sizing verdict, never from how the trade ended.

Reading the Colors

When scanning your journal, a column full of green and white means you are actively managing risk well. Frequent red may indicate trades where risk management needs improvement. For an aggregated view, the Analytics page's Trade Management section breaks performance down by risk-behavior tags (Risk-Free, SL-Tightened, SL-Extended, SL-in-Profits).