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Inside The Terminal View

How I use the journal behind my track record, one trade at a time. I built it for my own trading, and right now it isn't available to anyone else.

Alessio PuccioOctober 20265 min read

Every screenshot on this page comes from the real tool, filled with a demo account. The numbers are simulated. My real results are on the Track Record page.

Why I built it

For years my journal was a spreadsheet. It told me how much I made or lost, and very little about why. It couldn't separate a bad trade from a good trade that simply didn't work, and it couldn't prove to anyone that I hadn't filled it in after the fact.

I wanted three things a spreadsheet couldn't give me:

  • Everything in R. Each trade is measured against the risk I took, not in dollars, so results compare across accounts and sizes. I wrote about why in Thinking In R.
  • Process scored apart from outcome. A losing trade that followed the plan is a good trade. A winner that broke a rule is a problem, even if it paid.
  • A record a stranger can trust. If I ever manage outside money, the record has to hold up when someone who doesn't know me looks at it.

So I built The Terminal View, and every trade I take goes through it, on every account I trade.

The life of one trade

This is what happens to a single trade, from the moment I take it to the moment it shows up on this site.

01

The plan, before the result

I log the trade as soon as I take it: symbol, direction, entry, the original stop that defines 1R, and the R I plan to reach. Then I grade the process with four questions. Did the entry match my setup? Was the size right? Was the stop placed by structure, not by feel? Did I follow the plan?

The tool records whether I answered those before or after the result came in. Once I know a trade won, it is too easy to grade it kindly.

The execution and process section of the trade form in The Terminal View
The execution and process section of the trade form. Demo data.
02

Managing the trade

My stop goes to breakeven at 1R, a rule I explain in Breakeven At 1R. If the stop was moved, I log where it actually was. I also log the furthest the trade went in my favour before it closed, in R. That number matters later, because it is what the exit simulator uses to test other ways of taking profit.

03

The close, and a timestamp I can't change

When the trade closes I add the result in R or in dollars, and the tool works out the other. Every trade is stamped with the real time it was saved, and that stamp can't be edited. The log shows whether each trade was entered the same day, within a week or backfilled later, and any trade I change afterwards is marked as edited.

The trade log in The Terminal View, with a Logged column showing same-day entries
The trade log. The Logged column shows when each trade was entered. Demo data.
04

What the trades say together

One trade is noise. Forty start to describe a system. The tool tracks the equity curve and the drawdown, a desk score, and a risk profile across five areas: consistency, risk-adjusted return, tail risk, edge and capacity, and the track record itself. It also breaks results down by setup, entry timeframe, hour of entry, day of week and market regime, so I can see where the edge comes from and where it leaks.

Equity curve of the demo account in The Terminal View
Equity curve at 0.5% risk per trade. Demo data.
05

Testing a rule before I change it

When I am tempted to change how I take profit, I test it on my own history first. The exit simulator replays every trade with a fixed target or a partial exit and shows what the record would have looked like. It ignores slippage and costs, so I treat it as a starting point, not an answer. It still beats deciding from my last three trades.

The exit simulator in The Terminal View, testing fixed take-profit levels from 0.5R to 4R
Fixed targets from 0.5R to 4R, replayed on the demo trades.
06

Published by itself

When a trade closes, it goes to the public record on this site with its date, symbol, side, result in R and percent, and dollar P&L. I don't copy anything by hand, so there is nothing to pick and choose.

The public record settings in The Terminal View
One switch publishes every closed trade.

What's public and what stays private

  • Public: every closed trade, with date, symbol, side, R, percent, dollar P&L and the account it was taken on.
  • Private: my notes, chart links, mistake tags and open positions.
  • Labeled: evaluation accounts run on simulated capital, so their dollar amounts are simulated, and the record says so.

Who can use it

Status: personal use onlyNo sign-up, no price, no waiting list.

Right now The Terminal View is only for my own trading. I may open it to other traders in the future, but I haven't decided when or how, and I would rather say that plainly than promise a date.

If you would want to use something like this, I'd like to hear from you. It helps me decide whether it's worth opening up. Get in touch.

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