Flash Sale — Up To 60% Off
You sold part of a position and locked in a profit, but your dashboard and reports don’t show it, while your Trades list does. Nothing is wrong with your data: the trade is still open, and one setting decides whether the profit you have already taken on an open trade counts in your totals.
Why it happens
Each row in your Trades list always shows what the trade has made so far, open or closed. Your dashboard widgets, calendar and reports follow a setting instead. It is Consider Partial Realized Gains, in Settings > Trades:
- Off: every open trade counts as $0 in your dashboard, calendar and reports. The profit is real and stays in the Trades list, it just isn’t counted yet.
- On (the default for new accounts): the profit you have already realized on an open trade counts straight away.
The setting only matters while a trade is open. Once you sell the last shares, the trade is closed and counts in full, whichever way the setting is.
An example
You buy 200 shares of XYZ on Monday at $50. On Tuesday you sell 100 at $55. That locks in +$500 (5 dollars a share on 100 shares), and 100 shares stay open. The amounts are illustrative, gross, and ignore fees.
| Consider Partial Realized Gains | Trades list (open trade) | Dashboard and reports, for this trade |
|---|---|---|
| Off | +$500, status Open | $0 |
| On | +$500, status Open | +$500 |
| Either, after you sell the last 100 shares | The whole trade’s result | The whole trade’s result |
So the surprise is that the same trade shows +$500 in one place and $0 in another, only while it is open and only with the setting off.
How to make them match
- You want your totals to include profit from partial sells: turn Consider Partial Realized Gains on in Settings > Trades. Your dashboard and reports update when you save.
- You want only finished trades in your numbers: leave it off. Open trades will show in the Trades list but count as $0 in the dashboard and reports until you close them.
For the other checks when your cumulative return doesn’t match your Trades list (Gross or Net, filters, report date), follow Why my cumulative return doesn’t match what I have in the Trades section.
