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The Trade Evaluator allows you to evaluate the performance of your trading actions over time. You can see how your trading decisions affected your portfolio’s performance and how beneficial or detrimental your trades are to your investment returns.
You can use the Trade Evaluator to evaluate individual trades, all the trades for a specific ticker, as well as all the trades that comprise a single portfolio or group of portfolios.
The Trade Evaluator is fully configurable, allowing you to return data in either a Summary or Detail format. You can also configure the Trade Evaluator to compare your trades against a benchmark.
The Trade Evaluator displays performance detail at both the position level and trade level.
Summary View
Below we see the Trade Evaluator showing the performance of our selected Trade Bundle at the position level.
Each row represents a position.
Detail View
Below we see the Trade Evaluator showing the performance of our selected Trade Bundle at the traded level.
Each row consists of a buy or sell trade.
The Trade Evaluator can be configured to show how your trades have performed versus a benchmark. You can either select an Index from the pulldown or enter an ETF or Fund directly.
Select an Index
Enter an ETF or Fund
Include Benchmark Columns – You can toggle whether to display Benchmark columns.
Note: When multiple Trade Bundles are selected, the benchmark columns will show if all the Trade Bundles are configured for the same benchmark.
When ‘Detail’ is selected you have the option to highlight the best and worst performing trades. The best will be highlighted in green and the worst in red.
The Detail view provides the ability for you to add comments to your trades. Comments are tracked at the trade level.
Entering comments is done by simply typing text directly into the Comments column.
Right-clicking on a column header reveals a number of Table Features.
Explain – Displays a popup with a definition of the column.
Sort – We can sort the table by the selected column.
Group By -We can group the table by buy and sell trades, by sector, by source portfolio, or by tags.
Lock – We can prevent a column from scrolling out of view.
Columns – We can choose what columns to display.
Filter – We can filter the table by the column.
We can configure navigation and display settings under ‘Options’.
Single Bundle Navigation
If checked, Single Bundle Navigation will display only one trade bundle at a time. In this mode, selecting a trade bundle will unselect the bundle currently selected. It allows for faster navigation when you are interested in examining one Trade Bundle at a time.
If Single Bundle Navigation is not checked, multiple trade bundles can be displayed together.
Top/Bottom Highlight Count
Configures how many best and worst trades are displayed when ‘Highlighting Best and Worst Trades’ is configured.
Quantity Precision
Configures the decimal precision of the Quantity column.
