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Display charts for any execution

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One of the most popular features of Tradervue is the way price charts are auto-generated for all of your trades, showing all of your buys and sells during the trade. You can choose any timeframe you like for up to 4 charts on each trade, and they will all show your executions.

In some cases, however, you can’t see all of the executions you want on a chart of a specific timeframe. For example, if you have a trade that lasts for 6 hours, you can’t show both the entry and exit on a 1-min chart. Or if you have a trade that lasts a month, you can’t see a 5-min chart of your entry – you’ll only see it for your exit.

Today, all that changes! You can now see any execution on any timeframe.

Let’s look at an example. Here is a daily chart for an option trade that was open for about a month:

You can see both the entries and the exits. Here’s the 15-min chart for that trade:

In this case, we only see the closing executions, as the chart would have to be quite large to show both entries and exits on a 15-min timeframe for a month-long trade.

But sometimes we want to see that chart at the entry time. Now, you can click “Advanced” in the trade detail view:

You’ll now see chart symbols next to each execution:

If we click on one of them:

All of the price charts for the trade are now shifted in time to show that execution, and it will be highlighted in yellow on each. Here’s a closer look at the 15-min chart from above, where you can see the selected opening sell is now visible, and highlighted in yellow:

As with any other chart, you can zoom in on any of these, or view them in large mode. This works for any trade, on any timeframe, starting today!

Open Trades now available on Dashboard

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Tradervue will now display all open trades on your Dashboard:

This is useful for those who make multi-day swing or long-term trades. But even if you’re trading intraday, it’s a handy way to quickly see if any of your trades are showing as open, often indicating missing executions that you may not have imported.

The “Open Trades” box on the Dashboard will not display if you don’t have any open trades, so we won’t take up any extra space if it’s not necessary.

The columns are customizable, and are saved separately from the columns you’ve chosen in the Trades View, Journal View, and the current day summary on the Dashboard.

And if you’d rather not see this on the Dashboard, you can customize the information displayed:

The Open Trades box has been added for all users, even if you have previously customized your Dashboard.

MFE/MAE/Exit statistics in R

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If you’re tracking your risk in Tradervue, you’ve always been able to view your P&L, as well as all of the reports, in terms of R.

We now also display Position MFE/MAE and Best Exit P&L in terms of R as well, if you have set an initial risk value for the trade. Here’s an example of how this looks:

If you don’t have a risk value set for the trade, you’ll still see these statistics as before, they just won’t be shown in R.

TradeStation liquidity data

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If you’re using TradeStation, and you’d like to use the liquidity reporting in Tradervue, you can now do that if you’re using unbundled pricing from TradeStation.

In TradeStation’s TradeManager, just add the “Unbundled Route Fees” column to the Orders tab, prior to copying your data. As a reminder, a note about this appears on the Tradervue Import Trades page as well after you select TradeStation.

This is only available when using unbundled pricing at TradeStation – if you are on per-trade, or flat per-share pricing, the necessary data is unavailable.

Selectable base currency

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A large number of Tradervue users trade from outside the U.S., trading forex, futures, and U.S. stocks. And since 2013, Tradervue has supported trading products that are denominated in other currencies – for example, futures traded on Eurex, BMF, and Montreal exchanges, and forex.

The P&L from a trade is initially calculated in the transaction currency; for example, a trade in AUD/JPY will have its P&L calculated in JPY. A TWTR stock trade will have P&L in USD, and a trade in FDAX futures will show a P&L in EUR. Examples of this are shown in the article announcing forex support.

These “native” P&L values are shown on the trade detail view, and before today, they were also converted1 to USD for reporting purposes. All of the P&L shown in the Dashboard, Trades View, Journal View, and Reports View was shown in USD.

Beginning today, you can change your base currency from USD to another currency, and all P&L displayed in the Dashboard, Trades View, Journal View, and Reports View will be shown in your selected currency. For example, if you want all of your data and reports to be shown in EUR, you can now do that. Here’s an example of a stock trade in COG (a USD-denominated product), with a base currency set to EUR:

The Trades View will show in EUR:

And the reports as well when running in currency mode (as opposed to ticks or R), including the charts:

And the statistics:

To change your base currency, go to the Dashboard, click Settings, and go to the new System Settings tab:

Choose the currency you want, and click Update. When you do this, all of your trades will change to show their P&L as “pending”:

They will be recalculated in the new base currency, which may take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours. During the conversion process, you may see unexpected data in the reports, as not all of the trades have been converted yet. When you no longer see any “pending” trades, the process is complete.

When you change currency, your commissions, fees, and initial risk values also change their currency. However, their values are not converted between currencies – rather, they are interpreted as being in the new currency. If you have a commission of $2.50 in USD, then change to EUR, it will then be 2.50 EUR.

This illustrates a key point – the system is not intended to switch back and forth between currencies often. It’s designed to set the base currency you want to use, and remain there. But now the the base currency no longer needs to be USD.

All users on the silver or gold plan can change their base currency starting today!

  1. The actual currency conversion takes place at the specific times that P&L is realized; refer to the forex article for details. ↩