How to manually compute the P&L of your stocks, options and futures trades

How to calculate the pnl of your stocks, options and futures trades

At Trademetria, we process millions of trades a month without a glitch, and believe it or not, when users compare our results to their broker statements, they find some scary broker miscalculations ranging from rounding errors to missing fills leading to a wrong pnl. After seeing data from 150+ brokers, we can safely say we’ve seen it all.

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How to compute your portfolio’s annualized rate of return

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If you’re an investor or trader, chances are that you want to see great returns on your investments. One of the most common ways to measure your returns is through the annualized rate of return (ARR) metric. Simply put, this is the percentage returns of your portfolio over a period of time.

In this blog post, we’ll show you how to calculate your own percentage return using two different methods.

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Webull Trading Journal

If you are looking for a trading journal that is compatible with Webull, look no further! We are happy to announce that our trading journal now supports files from Webull, one of the best brokers for individual traders with zero commission costs. To import your trades, visit the import page and follow the instructions below:

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4 risk metrics every trader should track

When it comes to making money in the markets, risk management is probably the most important factor to long term success. To learn how to make money, you must learn how to stop losing first. Risk is all about controlling your losses. They can’t be prevented, but they can be analyzed and limited.

Here are 4 risk based metrics that even novice traders can track via a simple spreadsheet or a trading journal.

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FTX Trading Journal

If you are looking for a trading journal that is compatible with FTX, look no further! We are happy to announce that our trading journal now supports file uploads as well as auto uploads via API from FTX, one of the best brokers for crypto traders. To import your trades, visit the import page and follow the instructions below:

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Binance Trading Journal

If you are looking for a trading journal that is compatible with Binance, look no further! We are happy to announce that our trading journal now supports files from Binance as well as automatic imports via Binance’s API. To import your trades, visit the import page and follow the instructions below:

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9 ways to improve your algo/robot using Trademetria

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Nowadays creating a robot is no longer limited to financial wizards. It’s quick and easy, but creating a robot that makes money is a completely different story. Just like manual traders who adjust their strategies as the market changes, a trading robot also needs to be adjusted frequently to obtain greater profitability. Some systems like Meta Trader are able to create powerful backtesting reports, while others don’t provide valuable information to discover where and how your robot is losing. In this post, we will be showing some of the countless resources that Trademetria offers to improve the performance of your robots.

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Trading spreadsheet journal vs Online trading journal: Key differences

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Recently, I had a chat with someone that wanted to know why he should use an online trading journal vs his own trading spreadsheet. My answer was quick and somewhat brutal.

“Why drive a ford when you can drive a Lambo.”

Another way to put it:

“I’ll give you two options. The first one is free, but it won’t increase your returns. The other is paid and will most likely increase your returns. Which one would you go with?”

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Options Trading Journal

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Last updated on 2023-03-03

In this article, I’ll show you how to properly add your options trades and make the most out of our options trading journal.

Trademetria fully supports options even complex strategies, but they must be properly entered into the system.

What Trademetria doesn’t support at the moment is options on futures contracts for some infrequently traded contracts.

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Best Trading Tools for Traders

Resources and tools for traders and investors

When I first started trading back in 2001, I used yahoo finance and my broker’s platform to trade. That’s it. The result? I lost $8k! Not fun.

When I became a professional trader, I got to sit next to professionals and I learned from them and from other traders what works and what doesn’t when it comes to trading tools and resources for traders.

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