Giving back profit
See when open profit fell below breakeven, whether it recovered and what happened next.
Open Trade TrackerProfit capture
Compare actual results with measured sustained profit opportunities.
| Result | Definition |
|---|---|
| Total actual result | Combined actual Trade Tracker gross or net P/L for analyzed eligible trades. |
| Result at best sustained opportunities | Actual result plus each trade's measured additional opportunity. |
| Total additional opportunity | Positive difference between actual result and the strongest supported sustained opportunity. |
| Average / median peak profit retained | Percentage of measured opportunity represented by the actual result, shown as mean and middle value. |
| Average peak-to-exit giveback | Average reversal from the measured peak to final exit. |
A sustained opportunity uses completed-close windows instead of treating a one-second spike as an easy exit. Potential and missed values describe recorded market opportunity; actual P/L remains the money earned or lost.
Time held after the profit peak groups trades by peak-to-exit duration. Every row shows distinct trades, sample-supported rates and average actual, potential and missed results for the complete cohort.
Indicators at the comparison point adds EMA, RSI and VWAP comparisons at first +20%, or at first red after +20% for recovery comparisons. Every trade uses the same selected point. Indicator coverage does not change the existing financial totals.
Green-to-red outcomes
Follow each trade from first profit through reversal, recovery and final result.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Never moved green | The supported path did not show positive calculated trade P/L before the position became flat. |
| Green and stayed above breakeven | The path became positive and did not later move below breakeven. |
| Green to red, ended red | The path became positive, later moved below breakeven and actual P/L finished negative. |
| Green to red, recovered | The path moved below breakeven and later returned above it before the trade ended. |
| Green to red, ended flat | The path became positive and later red before actual P/L finished approximately flat. |
| Card | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Time before turning red | Average elapsed time from first green to first red. |
| Recovery rate | Percentage of Green-to-red trades that later returned above breakeven. |
| Recovery time | Average time from first red to first recovery. |
| Peak-to-red damage | Average profit reversal from measured peak to first red. |
| Peak-to-exit damage | Average profit reversal from measured peak to final exit. |
| Ended-red actual / potential / missed | Combined money actually lost, measured result at sustained opportunity and their positive difference for ended-red trades. |
Risk-management behavior
Compare observed adds after a peak and partial exits before red without claiming causation.
Adding after the peak compares peak-eligible trades with and without a later add. The saved analysis can describe an add after the saved unrealized-profit high as increased remaining exposure before a losing finish, without calling the action good or bad or claiming it caused the result.
Brief microcap price changes remain in the visible saved analysis but do not automatically create a conclusion. An open-position opportunity qualifies only when completed one-minute closes hold at least 50% for 3 minutes, 30% for 5 minutes, 20% for 10 minutes, or 15% for 15 minutes. A 20% move lasting 15 seconds or an isolated one-minute move does not qualify.
A losing or flat finish can qualify after a sustained window. A trade that remains profitable produces this giveback statement only when its final return is no more than half of the qualifying tier. For example, a 30% window followed by a 27% finish stays silent, while a 30% window followed by a 7% finish can be stated factually without calling either decision good or bad.
After a partial exit or add, the continuous window restarts for the changed position. If a profitable partial exit occurred before a later qualifying window, the card states the realized profit separately from the unrealized opportunity on the open position. The actual final result stays separate from both amounts.
A completed trade can also state the largest recorded favorable and adverse per-share movement from the first entry until the position was fully closed. For a long it says how far price moved up and down; for a short it makes favorable down movement and adverse up movement explicit. This is an observed price path, not an exit recommendation.
For one completed trade, the Trade Tracker outcome card may compare one saved reduction with the trade's actual later exit prices. It shows an avoided additional loss only when the exact reduced shares can be carried through every later recorded exit without an intervening add or ambiguous allocation. The comparison is gross, before fees: TradersLink does not invent the fee that a larger later fill might have had. When that allocation cannot be proved, the card says the exact later-exit comparison is unavailable.
The saved execution and market-data evidence remains visible for review. TradersLink does not manufacture a trade-outcome conclusion from ordinary volatility.
Comparison, not proof
The rows show what happened in the saved samples. They do not prove the add or partial exit caused the result and do not prescribe an exit strategy.
Supporting trades
Inspect the trades behind the Green-to-red comparisons.
This is the detailed Green-to-red evidence view. On a phone, use the Sort control and swipe the contained table sideways to keep every comparison column readable; the Ticker column stays pinned as a reference. Use ticker and outcome filters, then View full analysis to open the exact Session Tracker trade behind a comparison. Sustained opportunity, additional opportunity, captured percentage and peak-to-exit time stay here because they describe profit capture and reversal behavior.
Results per page offers 10, 25, 50 or 100 rows. Showing X-Y of Z and Previous/Next describe only the visible slice; summary cards continue to describe the complete filtered analysis population.