Trading History on Chart

Brief

This section describes how trading history is displayed on the chart and how to show/hide it.

Details

Viewing your trading history on charts allows you to analyze your past trades and evaluate the effectiveness of your strategies.

Each closed position is shown by:

• Two markers in the form of arrows which point to the periods when the position was opened and closed.
  Buying is indicated by an upward arrow under the period, selling is indicated by a downward arrow above the period.
• A connector which is a line connecting the time and prices of the position opening and closing.
  By default the connector is shown when you point to one of the markers. You can change the appropriate option either to always show the connector or not to show it at all, see Trading History Options.
• A profit/loss label for the closing marker.
  Also the markers and the connector indicate whether the position was profitable or loss-making by color, green and red respectively.

When you point to a marker, both position markers are highlighted, a connector and a tooltip are displayed. The tooltip indicates the position trade operation (Long or Short), whether the marker shows the position opening or closing (Open or Close), open and close prices of the position, and its profit/loss.

When more than one trade operations of one kind (buy or sell) were performed during one period, the trading history is shown a bit differently:

• Instead of a number of markers, a larger marker is shown to indicate all operations of one kind for the period (buy operations are shown by a larger upward arrow, sell operations are shown by a larger downward arrow).
• When you point to a marker, a number of connectors appear.
  Note: When some positions were opened in one period and then closed in another period, one connector appears. This connector connects average open and close prices for these positions in the periods.
• A profit/loss label shows a total profit/loss of the trade operations.
• The tooltip which appears when you point to the marker indicates average open and/or close prices and a total profit/loss of the trade operations.

Note: When both trading history and open position markers are shown on the chart and positions were both closed and opened in some period, instead of a number of markers, a larger marker is shown to indicate all operations of one kind for the period (buy operations are shown by a larger upward arrow, sell operations are shown by a larger downward arrow). In this case a profit/loss label shows only profit/loss of closed positions. When you point to the marker, you see a tooltip with average open and/or close prices and profit/loss of positions opened and closed in the period.

To show/hide the trading history on a chart, do one of the following:

• On the Trading menu, click Show Trading History.
• Right-click in the chart, point to Show Trading Information and then click Show Trading History.
  
  * In the E*TRADE FX platform, the command is available on the Charts menu, on the Trading submenu.

To show/hide profit/loss labels:

• Right-click any position marker, and then click Show Profit/Loss.

You can change the options for trading history. See Trading History Options.