Trade Fields Explained
Understand every field available when logging a trade: required, optional, and auto-calculated
Each trade in TradeLog can include a rich set of data fields. Some are required to save the trade, others are optional but enhance your analytics. Understanding what each field does will help you get the most value from your journal.
Required Fields
These fields must be filled in to save a trade:
- Account -- The trading account this trade belongs to. Determines currency and risk settings.
- Symbol -- The instrument or market (e.g., ES, EURUSD, BTCUSDT).
- Direction -- Long or Short.
- Entry Date -- The date you entered the trade.
- Result -- Win, Loss, or Break Even.
Optional Fields
These fields are not required but significantly improve the depth of your analytics:
- Entry/Exit Price -- Enables automatic PnL calculation and R-multiple computation.
- Stop Loss -- Required for R-multiple and risk badge calculations. Enter as a price level.
- Take Profit -- Used to calculate planned reward-to-risk ratio.
- Quantity/Lots -- Your position size. Used by the risk calculator and PnL formulas.
- Fees -- Trading commissions and fees. Subtracted from gross PnL to show net PnL.
- Strategy -- Links the trade to one of your saved strategies for strategy-level analytics.
- Session -- The trading session (Asia, London, NY, Outside) for session performance analysis.
- Timeframe -- The chart timeframe used for this trade (e.g., 5m, 15m, 1H).
- Tags -- Custom labels for categorizing trades (e.g., "news-driven", "revenge-trade", "A+ setup").
- Images -- Screenshots of your chart setup, entry, and exit.
- Notes -- Free-text field for trade rationale, emotions, and post-trade reflections.
Auto-Calculated Fields
Several fields are computed automatically by TradeLog based on the data you provide:
- Net PnL -- Calculated from entry price, exit price, quantity, and fees when all are provided.
- R-Multiple -- How many risk units (R) you gained or lost, based on your stop loss distance and risk settings.
- Risk Badges -- Automatically assigned based on stop loss position relative to entry and breakeven (SL+, RF, RR, RI, P).
- Auto-Tags -- System-generated tags like TP-Hit, SL-Hit, Cut-Loss, and Early-Close based on exit behavior.
- Trade Duration -- Calculated from entry and exit timestamps.
The more fields you fill in, the more insights TradeLog can generate. At minimum, always try to include entry price, exit price, and stop loss -- these three fields unlock most of the advanced analytics.
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