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Plain-language explainers for the metrics, features and concepts behind every TradeOnyx dashboard. Read here, then see them update live in the app.
95 articles · explained in plain language
R-Multiple + Expectancy
R-Multiple measures not 'how much you made' but 'how many risk-units'. A +2R trade is always 2× your risk — whether that's $20 or $2000. Only this makes trades comparable.
Read articleSetup degradation
Compares each setup's last 30 days against the preceding 60. Flags setups where the recent window is materially worse — the early warning that an edge has eroded before your equity curve makes it obvious.
Read articleSymbol persistence
Watches each symbol's per-trade P&L across three 30-day windows. Flags symbols whose edge has quietly faded — positive in older windows, negative or much smaller now. Catches the EURUSD that used to print money 60 days ago.
Read articlePosition-sizing consistency
Catches the silent killer: when your position size depends on what happened in the LAST trade. Disciplined sizing is driven by your risk model — not by the emotional momentum of recent wins or losses.
Read articleRisk-of-Ruin Monte Carlo
Answers the question every trader avoids calculating: given my current edge and sizing, how likely am I to hit a 50 % drawdown in the next 100 trades? Not theory — a 10 000-path simulation on YOUR stats.
Read articleStop-loss drift
Catches the single worst risk-management failure in retail trading: dragging the stop-loss away from a losing trade. The detector reads what your trades did, not what you said you'd do.
Read articleCorrelation cluster
Catches the diversification illusion. Four 'different' trades that all turn out to be EUR-pairs is one EUR bet sized 4x — not four independent positions. The detector reads your history and tells you when you've been stacking same-cluster risk without realising it.
Read articlePersonal edge
Ross Cameron has 5 hard criteria for his momentum scalping that he found through years of trial-and-error. The Onyx-Engine inverts the discovery: it ranks your top-decile trades against your bottom-decile trades and reports where the two diverge — your personal edge fingerprint, derived from your actual data, not declared up-front.
Read articleMistake trend
Knowing what your most expensive mistakes ARE is half the battle. Knowing whether they're getting better or worse over time is the other half — that's what tells you whether the journal rules you wrote three months ago are still working.
Read articleMistake pairs
Trader self-reports treat each mistake as independent ('I FOMO'd'). In practice mistakes cluster — FOMO + no-stop, revenge trade + over-sized, panic exit + broke plan. The detector surfaces the pairs so you can attack the underlying state, not the symptoms.
Read articleMistake-free streak
Discipline is a sustained behaviour, not a per-trade event. The detector measures both how long you can run clean (longest streak) and how quickly you recover after a slip (avg gap between mistakes), then trends those metrics across your trade history.
Read articleTop mistakes
Trader-defined mistake-tags ('FOMO entry', 'no stop', 'over-sized', 'broke plan') are the cleanest map of where discipline breaks down. The detector sums net P&L across every trade carrying each mistake-tag and surfaces the three most expensive — so you can fix the one that hurts most before chasing the rest.
Read articleLondon-NY overlap
13:00-17:00 UTC. Both London and New York are simultaneously open. Spreads tightest, depth deepest, the most institutional money moving per minute of the trading day. The detector tells you whether you're capturing this window, struggling in it, or systematically missing it.
Read articleNews proximity
Trades opened within ±30 minutes of a high-impact economic event sit in a different statistical regime than steady-state trades — wider spreads, brutal slippage, the algos that own intraday liquidity stepping back. The detector tells you whether you're profiting from that window or paying a tax on it.
Read articleMarket regime
Your edge is rarely a constant — it's almost always a regime-conditional thing. Bull markets reward long-bias setups; bear markets reward shorts and patience; sideways markets murder both. The detector splits your closed trades by the regime that was in force on each trade's date and shows you where the carry comes from.
Read articleFirst 15 minutes
The first 15 minutes after a session opens is a documented volatility window — unusual spreads, gap-filling auctions, breakout-failure traps. The detector measures whether you systematically over- or under-perform there relative to the steady-state edge of the SAME hour.
Read articlePyramid analysis
Scaling INTO a position with additional entries — pyramiding — is one of the sharpest dividing lines in trading: the textbook 'add to winners' is widely edge-positive, the textbook 'add to losers' is the single most common account-killer. The detector splits your behaviour cleanly between the two without you having to confess.
Read articleHold-time asymmetry
The textbook loss-aversion footprint: cutting winners short while letting losers run far past anything the original setup justified. The detector reads the time signature in your trade history without you having to confess to either pull.
Read articleRecovery behaviour
How a trader behaves AFTER a losing streak ends — same setup, same size, same standards as before — is one of the cleanest predictors of long-term survival. The detector reads three failure modes (reckless, timid, performance-degraded) and reports the dominant one.
Read articleFriday drift
Some traders systematically lose money on Fridays while making it the rest of the week. The detector compares Friday-only performance against the Monday-Thursday baseline and surfaces the gap when it's material.
Read articleOvertrading
The behavioural pattern of forcing trades on days when the market isn't offering them. The detector groups your trades by day, computes your own pace, and flags days where the count blew past — but only when those days also bled P&L.
Read articleRevenge trading
The single most expensive emotional move in retail trading: re-entering shortly after a loss to win it back, often at a larger size. The detector reads the time-and-volume signature in your trade history without you having to confess to it.
Read articleWeekly AI reflection
One short, coherent story per week that connects every detector finding with what you wrote in the journal. The piece you'd otherwise have to write yourself every Sunday — only with sharper numbers and zero blind spots.
Read articleWeekly action recos
Two or three concrete to-dos for the coming week — derived from your detector findings and journal, phrased as imperatives with a measurable trigger. The checklist version of the weekly narrative.
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AI sample on Briefing — what Pro Plus delivers
A free, one-time AI analysis of your most recent trade — pinned to that one trade so subsequent visits show the same sample without burning more LLM tokens. The teaser that previews what Pro Plus delivers on every trade.
Read articleWeekly Preview — Saturday → Monday
Three data-driven bullets that surface what your week actually said — your strongest setup, your risk-cut vs. plan, and where your losses concentrated. Free for every tier, every week.
Read articleBriefing
The five-minute ritual that decides whether you trade today and how. Pre-market plan, mood check, daily focus — committed in writing before the bell.
Read articleDiscipline Scorecard
Four behaviour axes you can actually control — plan-adherence, risk-sizing, journal-streak, execution-grade. Replaces the XP system. No leaderboards, no public P&L. The score is yours alone.
Read articleOverview
The single dashboard view that answers "am I making money, and is my edge holding up?" — equity curve, the seven core metrics, period filter, account filter. The first tab you open after a session.
Read articleJournal
Per-trade reviews, daily reflections, lessons learned — the place where pattern recognition actually happens. The tab where "I keep doing X" becomes a number you can see.
Read articleTags on journal entries
Label any day with a tag — even days without trades — so you can find specific themes again three months later.
Read articleManual trade entry
Log a closed trade in a single keyboard-driven form when you don't import from a supported broker — or simply want to capture a trade that the broker connector missed.
Read articleDemo data
A 90-day curated sample portfolio that fires every Onyx-Engine card on day one — for traders who want to see what TradeOnyx does before importing their own history.
Read articleTrade-limit chip
A small pill in the dashboard header that appears once a Free-tier account approaches its 500-trade ceiling — your heads-up before an import gets blocked.
Read articleTrades
Every closed trade in one filterable, taggable list. The drill-down view that pairs the Overview's "is the strategy working?" with "which trades, exactly, are pulling their weight?"
Read articleCharts — Trade Context on the Candles
A clean candle chart inside your journal — your real broker fills overlaid on the candles, plus EMAs and multiple timeframes. Charts auto-refresh every 30 seconds while the tab is open. Built for reviewing trades in context, not for live day-trading off our data (Yahoo Finance, delayed and free; connect a broker under Settings → Brokers for a better feed).
Read articleCalendar — Daily P&L Heatmap
The classic green/red P&L calendar every trader recognizes — a month at a glance, intensity scales with size, click a day to jump straight to the journal.
Read articleNews — Live Market Headlines
A live news ticker filtered by your asset class, with a freshness indicator on every headline so you know what's stale and what's hitting right now.
Read articleAI News v2 — events read in context
Every AI-analysed event is now weighed against the past seven days of macro releases, the last 48 hours of headlines, and the symbol's own pre-existing trend bias — so a single bullish-on-paper read can't quietly trump three larger forces pulling the other way.
Read articleEconomy — Economic Calendar
Scheduled high-impact events in one place — Powell, NFP, CPI, ECB — with country filter and forecast vs. actual vs. previous side by side.
Read articleTools — Trading Utility Calculators
The before-you-click scratchpad — position size, R:R, pip values, all in one place so you stop ballparking risk in your head.
Read articleImport — CSV & Excel Trade Import
Drop a broker file, get a year of history in 30 seconds — dedupe, symbol mapping, P&L compute, timezone stamping all handled.
Read articleProfile — Personal Account Settings
Avatar, password, language, time zone — and the one field that quietly drives every tilt warning you see: default risk per trade.
Read articleSettings — Platform Configuration
Wire your broker accounts in once, set the asset class that drives news and events, then forget this tab exists. The year-end tax export lives one tab over, in Tools.
Read articleAcademy — In-Product Trader Glossary
The tab you're reading right now — every metric, feature, and concept TradeOnyx touches, defined in one searchable corpus that doubles as the public academy.
Read articlePrint Your Trading Journal — Editorial PDF Booklet
Turn your journal into an A4 booklet you can print, hole-punch, file in a binder — or download as PDF for archive, coach review, or your tax records.
Read articleDaily Auto-Sync — Hands-Off Broker Refresh
Once a day, TradeOnyx pulls new fills from every connected broker so your journal stays current without you lifting a finger. The toggle in Settings → Brokers turns it off when you'd rather sync on demand.
Read articleMulti-Account — One Trader, Several Books
Run multiple trading accounts under one TradeOnyx login — prop firm + personal, broker A + B, demo alongside live — without mixing their P&L. The active account drives every dashboard tab; switching is a single click in the header.
Read articleNotifications — Inbox, Push, Email
A three-channel dispatcher that fires risk warnings, news heads-ups, end-of-day reminders, and milestones — to the inbox you check, the browser push you opt into, the email if you want one. One preference matrix decides which channel each kind goes to.
Read articlePrice Alerts — Threshold Triggers on Symbols
User-defined "tell me when EURUSD crosses 1.10" alerts. Picks up the symbol's latest cached close, fires a notification when threshold is crossed, then cools down for 24 hours so a hovering price doesn't spam.
Read articleAI Analyses — Per-Trade, Daily, Weekly, Briefing
Four AI integrations: per-trade post-mortem on demand, daily coaching tip in the briefing, weekly pattern review on Sunday, daily AI-augmented briefing analysis. Cached so a re-render never costs a second token.
Read articlePlaybooks — Strategy Templates with Target R:R
Named strategies you assign to trades — "London Open Breakout", "NYSE Reversal". Each carries a target R:R, a description, and an active/archived flag. Per-playbook performance rolls up automatically; the bad ones surface fast.
Read articleTags — Categorise Trades by Setup, Mistake, Psychology
Free-form labels you attach to trades, organised into four categories — Setup, Mistake, Psychology, Custom. Tags answer the orthogonal questions to playbooks: not "which strategy?" but "what happened, in your own words?"
Read articleMood Tracking — One Slider Pre-Trade, One Post-Trade
A 1-5 mood rating before you open a trade and another after you close it. Two numbers, fifteen seconds. Across a hundred trades, the cluster of low-mood-pre + losing-trade pairs becomes the most actionable behavioural signal you'll find anywhere on the dashboard.
Read articleTwo-Axis Grading — Execution × Setup Quality
Two letter grades per trade. **Execution** (A-F) for how well you traded the plan. **Setup** (A+ to D) for how good the plan was. Splitting them apart is the only way to tell a great trade you executed badly from a bad trade you executed perfectly.
Read articleTrade Share — Public Read-Only Link with OG-Card
Generate a public URL for one of your trades. Recipients see entry, exit, P&L (in % or absolute, your choice), and a clean OG image when they paste the link into Discord or X. No login required. You can revoke anytime; we keep view-counts.
Read articlePatterns
Six deterministic detectors that read your closed trades and surface the behaviour patterns most traders need a coach to spot. No AI, no guesswork — only signals strong enough to be actionable.
Read articleInsights feed — your behaviour log
A chronological timeline of every red-flag finding the Onyx Engine ever surfaced on your account. New entries when a pattern appears, „cleared" entries when you fix it. The history the Patterns tab cannot give you.
Read articleTwo-factor authentication (2FA)
A second step at login that protects your account even when your password leaks. TradeOnyx supports any standard authenticator app — Authy, 1Password, Bitwarden, Google Authenticator — plus 10 single-use backup codes for the day you lose the phone.
Read articleSign-in alerts & security emails
An email lands in your inbox the first time someone signs in from a new device or country, and on critical actions like password change or 2FA toggling. Industry-standard breach-detection that costs ~1-2 mails per year and catches credential-stuffing dead.
Read articleActivity log — full transparency on every action
Every mutation against your data — logins, broker syncs, trade edits, journal updates, credential changes — recorded in one append-only log you can read and export at any time. Industry-standard breach-detection on your own account and DSGVO Art. 15 self-service.
Read articleAlpaca as a free OHLC data source
Yahoo gives you 7 days of 1-minute bars for US stocks. Alpaca gives you 7 years — for free, via a Paper-Trading account that you never have to live-trade with. Editorially honest: we do NOT recommend Alpaca for live trading from a DACH residence; the data-only use case is a different question.
Read articleInstall TradeOnyx as an app
Pin TradeOnyx to your phone or desktop. Full-screen launcher, push notifications, and the briefing stays readable when the connection drops.
Read articleTrading-style presets in the import
Tell the importer how you actually trade — scalp every quick sequence, swing into one position over hours — and the round-trip pairing groups your fills the way your strategy intends.
Read articleAI integration via MCP — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini driving TradeOnyx
Let Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini write your trades, journal entries and tags straight into TradeOnyx — no copy-paste.
Read articlePaper Trading — forward-test a strategy without real money
Place simulated orders against the live price on a separate paper account, then read the result with the full Onyx-Engine — before you risk real capital.
Read articlePosition-Size Calculator — exact lots from a risk budget
Entry, stop, risk in percent or euros — get the lot count whose stop-out loses exactly that budget. No more eyeballing until the SL prints ~−37 €.
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Sharpe Ratio
How much return your strategy earns for every unit of bumpiness it puts you through. The single fastest way to ask: am I getting paid for the risk I'm taking?
Read articleMaximum Drawdown
The worst peak-to-trough drop your account ever took. The number that decides whether you can actually live with the strategy or whether one bad month will make you flatten everything in a panic.
Read articleSortino Ratio
Sharpe's smarter sibling. Same idea — return per unit of risk — but it only counts the downside swings, because nobody ever complained about a strategy going up too fast.
Read articleProfit Factor
For every euro your losers cost you, how many euros did your winners bring in? The cleanest one-number test of whether your strategy actually makes money.
Read articleWin Rate
The percentage of trades that closed in the green. The most-quoted, most-misunderstood number in trading — useful only when you read it next to how big the wins and losses actually were.
Read articleExpectancy
What you can expect to make — or lose — on the average trade. The single number that ties win-rate, avg-win and avg-loss into a real-money answer to: should I take the next setup?
Read articleCalmar Ratio
How many years of average return it takes to recover your worst drawdown. The reality-check ratio that asks: is the pain you survived actually proportional to the gains you made?
Read articleRecovery Factor
How many times over you've earned back your worst drawdown. The metric that asks not just how deep was the pit, but how far above it have you climbed since.
Read articleLong vs. Short Split
Two separate edges live inside every account that trades both directions. Reading them as one average hides which side is paying the bills.
Read articleFees Impact
Commission and swap quietly nibble at every closed trade. Reading them as one tile per period turns invisible drag into an explicit decision input.
Read articleHold-Time Bias
Cutting winners fast and letting losers run is the most common quiet leak in retail trading. Comparing average hold-time for winners vs. losers exposes it on a single tile.
Read articleR-Multiple — Risk-Normalized Returns
One number that lets you compare a 50€ win on a 50€ stop to a 5,000€ win on a 5,000€ stop apples-to-apples. R = trade outcome ÷ initial risk.
Read articleAnnualized Return
Your year-to-date return projected to a full 365-day year. The number that lets you compare a partial-year track record to a long-running benchmark like the S&P 500.
Read articleWin/Loss Ratio
How big the average winner is compared to the average loser. The number that decides whether a 30%-win-rate strategy is a goldmine or a slow drain on your account.
Read articleStreaks — Winning + Losing Runs
The longest consecutive run of wins or losses in your trade history. A psychological tape-measure for both bear hugs and bear markets — your own.
Read articleS&P 500 YTD — The Honest Benchmark
Your year-to-date return next to what a passive S&P 500 ETF would have earned over the same window. The yardstick that answers "is the active management actually paying me?"
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Edge confidence (CIs on PF + WR)
Your edge metrics are estimates from a finite trade sample. The confidence interval tells you how much of that estimate is signal versus how much is luck. Every new trade narrows the band — your existing data becomes more valuable, not less.
Read articleSlippage
The gap between the price you wanted and the price you actually got. The hidden tax that turns a clean backtest into a messy live curve.
Read articleSpread
The gap between bid and ask — the broker's tax on every round-trip you take. Tiny per trade, brutal across a year.
Read articleLeverage
Borrowed capital that lets you control more position than your account holds. The dial that turns small wins into big wins — and small losses into account-killers.
Read articleMartingale
A position-sizing rule that doubles your risk after every loss. The seductive math that promises you can't lose forever — until you do, exactly once, with everything on the table.
Read articleRisk of Ruin
The probability that your account hits zero (or any threshold below which you stop trading) before your edge plays out. The number that decides whether your strategy is actually a strategy or a loaded coin-flip.
Read articleTrading Edge
The structural reason your strategy makes money — the small statistical advantage you have over the next person clicking the same chart. No edge, no business.
Read articlePosition Sizing
How much of your account you put on a single trade. The decision that, more than entries or exits, separates traders who survive from traders who don't.
Read articleStop-Loss
The pre-committed exit price that turns "I'll see how it goes" into "the maximum I can lose on this trade is exactly X." The single most boring discipline that separates careers from comebacks.
Read articleEvent Risk
A one-glance traffic-light read of how loaded today's economic-event calendar is — HIGH, MEDIUM or LOW. Tells you whether to expect news-driven spikes that can whipsaw stops, NOT whether the market is trending.
Read articleBull Market
Sustained uptrend in an asset class. The macro state where buyers are in control and the trader's bias should match — risk-on, full size on aligned setups, less hand-wringing on entries.
Read articleBear Market
Sustained downtrend in an asset class. The macro state where sellers are in control. Bias defensive — smaller size, only highest-quality setups, beware the bear-market rally.
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