Reviewing Your Results

Once you've traded for a while, the question is simple: how did it go? The Performance screen answers that for any stretch of time — a single day, a week, a month, or your whole history — and lets you drill straight into the trades behind any day.

Everything here reflects the mode you're currently viewing. Look at it in Paper to review your practice, or in LIVE to review your real account — see Paper vs live.

Choose a period

Open the Performance screen. The bar at the top is where you pick the window you want to look at:

• Quick presets — 7D, 30D, MTD (month to date), YTD (year to date), and 1Y — one click for the common ranges.
• Start date / to / End date — pick an exact custom range from the calendars.
• Credits — narrow each day to only its first N credit trades (First 1, First 2, and so on), handy for comparing "what if I'd stopped after a few." Leave it on All to count everything.
• The ✕ clears your filters; Refresh pulls the latest.

With no range set, the screen shows your entire history.

Read the scorecard

At a glance, the cards across the top summarize the whole period you selected. They fall into two groups.

P&L and costs:

• Total Net P&L — the bottom line for the period, after commissions, across however many trading days it covers.
• Credit P&L and Debit P&L — your result split by trade type, each showing the gross figure beneath.
• Total Commission — fees paid.
• Avg Cost/Credit — commission and hedging cost per credit trade.
• Total Premium — premium collected.
• Premium Capture — how much of that premium you actually kept, gross / net.

Performance and risk:

• Win Rate — the share of winning days, with the day count beneath.
• Profit Factor — wins divided by losses (above 1 is net-positive).
• Avg P&L/Day — your average daily net result.
• Avg Win / Loss and Best / Worst — your typical and most extreme days.
• Max Drawdown — the deepest peak-to-trough dip, and the longest run of days spent underwater.
• Sharpe / Sortino — risk-adjusted return ratios.

See the shape of it

Below the scorecard, a set of tabbed charts turn the same numbers into a picture: Daily P&L, Cumulative P&L (with an optional Show drawdowns overlay), Daily Premium, Underwater, and P&L Distribution. Use them to spot streaks, a growing equity curve, or an unusually deep drawdown that a single number hides.

Go day by day — or month by month

The Performance Data table at the bottom lists the period broken down, with Monthly and Daily tabs:

Switch to Daily to see every trading day; Monthly rolls those up per month with extra stats like win rate and average per day. Export CSV downloads whatever the current tab shows, so you can keep your own records or analyze them elsewhere.

Drill into a day's trades

The numbers tell you which days went well or badly; to see why, click straight into one. On the Daily tab, click any day's row — VolNinja jumps to your Dashboard filtered to that day, showing exactly the positions that made up its result. From there you can open any position for the full breakdown.

To pressure-test a position before you commit to it rather than review one after, see Checking risk before you commit.