The Trade Journal is a personal log of every trade you take — entries, exits, P&L, and an optional link back to the alert or trade idea that sparked it.

Why use it

• Honest scorekeeping. It's the only page that shows your actual results, not what the platform's signals would have done.
• Outcome attribution. Tag a journal entry with the alert or trade idea you took it from and Optionomics will show aggregate outcomes for that source — e.g. "alerts of this kind average +12%".
• Faster reviews. Filters and a CSV export turn the journal into a spreadsheet whenever you need one.

What you can record

• Symbol, side (long/short), instrument (stock or option), quantity.
• Entry and exit prices, opened and closed timestamps.
• Realized P&L (auto-computed when both prices and quantity are filled in).
• Free-form notes for your thesis and post-trade review.
• A source link to the alert or trade idea that triggered the trade.

Filters and stats

• Status — open, closed, or all.
• Symbol prefix — type "AA" to find every AAPL or AA entry.
• Source — manual, alert-driven, or idea-driven.
• Date range — by `opened_at`.

The header tiles update with every filter change so the Realized P&L, Win rate, Avg P&L, and Open / Total numbers always reflect the slice you're looking at.

Exports

Click Export CSV in the toolbar. The download includes every column with stable headers — safe to point your spreadsheet formulas at.

Tips

• Journal trades the day they happen. Memory is the worst data source.
• Use the Trade Ideas and Alerts pages with the journal open in another tab — `Track this` lifts an entry into the journal pre-filled.