Trade History

Portfolio's History tab — every trade from your connected brokers, normalized and queryable, with an equity curve, KPIs, and CSV export.

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Trade History is the History tab inside Portfolio (/portfolio?tab=history). Every order fill from every connected broker gets normalized, de-duplicated, and stored as a single entry — across years, across accounts, in one place. It’s the surface to answer “what did I actually trade?” and the foundation for any serious post-trade analysis.

What’s in the History tab

Each row in the trades table is one trade event:

Open — you opened a new position (buy stock, sell to open puts, etc.).
Close — you closed all or part of a position.
Roll — you closed and reopened in the same order (a single broker fill identified by Tradient as a roll).
Assignment / Exercise — option exercise or assignment events.
Expiration — options that expired worthless or in-the-money.

For multi-leg strategies, Tradient groups the legs into a single entry tagged with the detected strategy type, just like in the Positions tab. An iron condor open shows as one line, not four. You can filter the trades table by status or tag to zero in on exactly what you need.

Equity curve and KPIs

At the top of the History tab you’ll find an equity curve chart that plots your cumulative realized P&L over time, along with a strategy breakdown showing how each strategy type contributes to overall performance. Use tag-based filtering to slice the chart by any label you’ve applied.

Key performance indicators displayed alongside the chart:

Total realized P&L (lifetime, year, month, week)
Win rate
Average winner / average loser
Profit factor (gross wins / gross losses)
Best and worst trades

Every closed position has a realized P&L computed from the difference between open and close fills, net of commissions and fees. Open positions have unrealized P&L (which lives in Portfolio’s Positions tab) — once they close, they appear in Trade History with a realized number.

Filter by strategy type, account, ticker, or date range to slice the KPIs any way you need. Want to know your realized P&L on iron condors only? Filter to iron condors and read the number.

Tags and notes

Every trade entry can be tagged and annotated. Tags are free-form labels (e.g., “earnings,” “regret,” “wheel.”) Notes are a text field for whatever you want to remember about the trade — why you took it, what you’d do differently, what you learned. Both are searchable, and you can filter the History tab by tag.

Tip

The most valuable column in any trade journal is the “why I took this” field. Fill it in at entry, not at exit, and re-read it when the trade closes. Half of learning comes from finding out where your reasoning was right and where it wasn’t.

How trades get into History

Two ways:

Automatic broker sync. When SnapTrade reports a new fill on a connected account, Tradient ingests it within minutes. This is the path for ~99% of entries.
Manual entry.For paper trades, untracked accounts, or backfilling history, you can add trade entries by hand. Manual entries are clearly marked as such and excluded from Portfolio’s Positions tab.

Strategy detection on rolls

When Tradient sees a fill that closes one position and opens another with the same underlying on the same broker timestamp, it treats the pair as a roll. Rolled positions keep a parent-child link in Trade History so you can trace a single multi-month adventure all the way back to its original entry.

This matters for realized P&L: a rolled position doesn’t book P&L until the final close. The intermediate rolls show as zero-P&L events that adjust the basis going forward.

Exporting

The History tab has a CSV export button that downloads all columns intact, suitable for tax prep, custom analysis, or backup. We don’t do Schedule D or 1099-B reconciliation — that’s your broker’s job — but the export gives you everything you need to feed it to a tax tool or a spreadsheet.

What Trade History is not

Not a P&L statementfor tax purposes. Use your broker’s 1099-B for that. Trade History’s P&L is for trading-decision purposes, not tax accounting.
Not a portfolio dashboard— that’s Portfolio’s Positions tab. Trade History is the past, Positions is the present.
Not editable for synced fills.You can tag and annotate, but you can’t change the price or quantity of a broker-reported fill. Your broker is the source of truth.