Positions detail drill-down

Also seen as: the position drill-down; trade history.

How do you follow one position from entry to exit?

The detail opens in three layers, each one narrowing the scope.

1. The symbol — a row of the positions summary table, covering everything the strategy ever did in that instrument.
2. Its positions — one row per position the strategy held in that symbol, with its Start and End dates, its Side (long or short), its Max contracts — the largest quantity it ever held — and the same money columns as the summary: Gross, Costs, Net, Dividends, Total P&L.
3. Inside one position — its Trade history, one row per fill, and its Dividends & splits, one row per event.

A position that is still open at the end of the run has no closing fill, so its result is still open rather than realized.

What does each trade row record?

Each row of the trade history is one fill: its Execution date, its Execution time — Open, IntraBar or Close, which fixes the price the fill books at — its Side, the Contracts filled, the Actual execution price it filled at, then Gross, Costs and Net for that fill, and the Reason it happened when the fill closed a position.

Realized results belong to closing fills, so an opening fill shows a dash for its Gross and no Reason — nothing is realized yet at that point in the position's life.

Defaults in Fincanva

• Trades are listed newest first, and fills sharing a date are ordered by execution time — Open, then IntraBar, then Close — so a same-day sequence reads in the order it happened.
• Prices are in the instrument's own currency and profit-and-loss figures are in the account's base currency; a position in a foreign-listed instrument therefore mixes two currencies across one row, by design.
• Dividends and splits are merged into a single event stream per position, newest first — see dividends and splits for how each row reads.
• Each level has its own empty state: "No positions for this symbol.", "No trades.", and "No dividends or splits."
• Gross, Costs and Net mean the same thing at every level: gross before costs, net after — for one fill, for one position, or for the whole symbol.

Worked example

A symbol's row opens to show three positions. You take the second: it starts in March, ends in September, is long, and reached a maximum of 40 contracts. Opening it, the trade history shows a Buy of 25 contracts at the Open in March with no Reason and no realized result, a second Buy of 15 contracts in May that took it to its peak of 40, and a Sell of all 40 in September IntraBar, this time carrying a realized Gross, its Costs, its Net, and a Reason of stop loss. Beneath, the Dividends & splits stream shows the two dividends collected while the position was held. Those five rows are the position's whole life: how it was built, what it collected on the way, why it ended, and what it kept.

These figures describe what a strategy would have done on historical data, not what it will do. Fincanva provides no financial advice — see Is this financial advice?.