Trade Tags

Tags are labels attached to trades that help you categorize, filter, and analyze your trading patterns. TradeLog uses two types of tags: auto-tags generated by the system, and custom tags you create yourself.

Auto-Tags (System Generated)

TradeLog automatically assigns tags based on how the trade was managed and how it closed. These auto-tags appear with special styling and cannot be manually removed:

• TP-Hit -- Trade closed at the take profit level.
• SL-Hit -- Trade closed at the stop loss level.
• Cut-Loss -- Trade was manually closed at a loss before the stop loss was hit. The post-close candle review may then add a SEPARATE chip, Good-Decision (price continued against you) or Bad-Decision (price reversed in your favor). When the review is inconclusive it adds neither.
• Early-Exit -- Trade was manually closed in profit before the take profit was reached. The post-close candle review may then add a SEPARATE chip, Good-Decision (price reversed) or Bad-Decision (price continued to TP). When the review is inconclusive it adds neither.
• Runner -- The trade was held past its target, letting a winner run.
• Set-and-Forget -- The stop loss and take profit were left untouched until one was hit.
• Risk-Free / SL-Tightened / SL-Extended / Risk-Exceeded -- Describe what you did with your stop, and whether the loss went past plan (stop moved to breakeven, moved closer to entry, moved further from entry, or the realized loss exceeded the planned risk).
• SL-in-Profits -- The stop loss was moved into profit, locking in a gain.
• No-SL -- No stop loss was set on the trade.
• TP-Extended / TP-Tightened -- What you did with your target mid-trade: pushed it further from your entry, or pulled it closer. Neither is good or bad on its own; the word says where the line went.
• Pyramiding -- Position size was increased by adding to the position (each added entry is also tagged 2nd-Entry, 3rd-Entry, up to 5th-Entry, after which further scale-ins get only this tag).
• Risk-Increased -- You lost more than your planned 1R BECAUSE the stop was moved further away, so the money at risk grew after you were in the market. Not the same as Risk-Exceeded, which fires whenever a closed loss lands more than 5% past your planned risk without saying why; Risk-Increased is the narrower case where a widened stop is the reason. This is the loudest discipline tag in the set.
• Good-Decision / Bad-Decision -- Written by the post-close candle review, judging whether your exit was the right call.
• Market-Order / Pending-Order -- How the trade was entered. These mirror the Order Type field, which has its own editor in the Entry popover.

Why the Tags Column Shows Only One Tag

A trade often carries several tags, but the Tags column has room for one chip plus a "+N" badge. TradeLog picks that one chip by MEANING, not by whatever order the tags happen to be stored in -- so the same trade always shows the same chip, no matter which platform wrote it or when it last synced.

• A partial-position label (Partial 2, Partial 3...) wins first -- it changes how every other number on the row reads.
• Then YOUR own tags, because the Tags column is the only place they appear.
• Then the management vocabulary, ranked by what it adds that the rest of the row does not already say: discipline breaches (Risk-Exceeded, No-SL, Risk-Increased, Bad-Decision) first, then the close story (Cut-Loss, Early-Exit, Runner, Set-and-Forget), then states the Risk column already shows, then the scale-in ladder.
• Market-Order / Pending-Order rank LAST on purpose -- they read the same on nearly every synced trade, so they tell you the least.

Custom Tags

You can create your own tags to track anything relevant to your trading:

1. 1When adding or editing a trade, find the Tags field.
2. 2Type a new tag name and press Enter to create it, or select from existing tags.
3. 3Tags are saved to your account and available for all future trades.
4. 4You can assign multiple tags to a single trade.

Using Tags in Analytics

Tags become powerful in the Analytics page under the Trade Management section. TradeLog groups auto-tags into five behavioral categories: Entry Behavior, Risk Management, Exit Behavior, Exit Outcome, and Trade Discipline. Each category shows win rate, average PnL, and trade count per tag. Pyramiding and added-entry tags are analyzed separately in the Partials and Entries section.