Entry History: Granular Tracking for Opening and Add-On Transactions

The Entry History page serves as a comprehensive, transaction-level ledger designed to track every opening and add-on purchase across both your current and historical portfolio positions. Unlike aggregate position summaries, this view gives you an unfiltered look at how and when your capital was initially deployed into the market.

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Understanding Your Entry History Ledger

Every transaction that establishes or adds to a position is detailed row-by-row, providing complete visibility into your capital deployment. The ledger organizes your trade data through several core parameters designed to give you maximum clarity and analytical power:

  • Trade ID & Type: Each transaction is assigned a unique identifier alongside its position type (Buy/Long or Sell/Short), ensuring every opening move is distinctly traceable.

  • Symbol, Security Type, & Exchange: Quickly identify the exact asset, asset class (such as stocks, ETFs, or crypto), and the specific market exchange where the execution took place.

  • Data Source: Know instantly whether a trade was imported automatically through your connected brokerages (e.g., Fidelity, Schwab) or logged manually into the platform.

  • Open Price & Quantity: View the precise execution price per share or unit alongside the exact volume of your initial or add-on purchase, ensuring your cost basis calculations are transparent.

  • Cost Basis: Aggregates your entry price and quantity to reveal the total capital invested in that specific transaction, helping you measure position sizing at a glance.

  • Open Date & Days Since Open: Records the exact calendar date the trade was initiated and calculates the elapsed holding time that updates daily.

The Value of Tracking "Days Since Open"

The Days Since Open metric is more than just a calendar count; it is a vital tool for active portfolio management:

  • Risk Management: By tracking the time elapsed since your initial investment, you can spot aging positions that may have overstayed their thesis, helping you trim stale trades and mitigate downside risk.

  • Performance Analysis: This metric is foundational for calculating time-based performance metrics, such as annualized returns or comparing the average holding period of your winning trades versus your losing ones.

  • Strategy Evaluation: You can review how long it takes for a newly opened position to move into profitability or hit predetermined milestones, directly informing your future entry and exit timing.

  • Tax and Holding Period Insights: Tracking exact duration helps you distinguish short-term commitments from long-term capital assets, supporting cleaner record-keeping for tax reporting.

Managing Your Trades

The Entry History table acts as your command center for managing trade data:

  • Brokerage-Sourced Trades: Because records from connected accounts are managed securely via your financial institutions, data imported from Plaid or SnapTrade is read-only to preserve institutional accuracy.

  • Manual Entries: For self-managed positions, you have total control. Clicking the horizontal ellipses icon on any manual row opens the Trades Options menu, allowing you to seamlessly edit, close, or delete that specific transaction.

Highlight: Why Entry Granularity Matters

By isolating your opening and add-on transactions across both active and closed positions, the Entry History page cuts through portfolio clutter.

It gives you a crystal-clear, transaction-level audit trail to evaluate your market entry strategies while offering seamless control over your manually logged trades.

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