Your edge exists. Something keeps eating it.
Breakeven does not mean you have no edge. It means you have an edge and you pay a tax on it. The tax is two or three habits that show up on a small share of your trades and give back what the rest made. You will not find them in a win rate. You find them by putting a price on mistakes.
Breakeven traders change strategy every quarter because the P&L says the strategy is not working. Split the same trades into clean trades and mistake trades and it flips: the clean ones usually make money, and a handful of bad ones pay for all of it. Actal does that split on every trade, in dollars, and puts the most expensive habit at the top of the page.
The average hides the leak.
Your setup might make money on every trade you execute to plan. You never see that number because the sheet averages it in with the revenge trade at 11:40.
Moving a stop costs a few points each time. Over a quarter it is the difference between breakeven and a good month. No stats dashboard adds that up for you.
Plan adherence falls apart after the first loss of the day, which is exactly when it matters. If you never close out the plan, you never measure it, so it never gets fixed.
Every review ends with a list. Lists do not change behaviour. One thing, for a whole week, does.
Every mistake gets a running dollar cost.
Tag it once and Actal keeps the total: what moved stops have cost you, what chasing has cost you, what sizing up after a green morning has cost you. Insights opens with the biggest one and the trades behind it.
Find out how often you actually trade your plan.
Scenarios before the open, a closeout after: which one played out, and did you trade it. Plan adherence becomes a weekly number, and the P&L splits into in-plan and off-plan. For most breakeven traders that split explains everything.
A process score that moves before the P&L does.
Grades, clean trades, rules kept, days planned and plans traded, weighted into one number every week. When it drops, you know a week before the account does. When it climbs, the money follows.
Fix the leak, not the strategy.
Take the focus Insights suggests, or pick your own from the findings. It sits on the dashboard all week with live progress. Next week, the next one. Three months of that turns breakeven into a track record.
Your first 30 days
Import your last three months. Grade the last thirty trades and tag every mistake. Then read the mistake table. That is your leak, in dollars.
Make the most expensive mistake your weekly focus. Nothing else. File a plan every morning and close it out at night.
Check plan adherence and the in-plan versus off-plan split. If your in-plan trades are green, stop changing the strategy.
Read the execution score and its biggest drag. Pick the next focus from the next most expensive habit. Keep going until the mistake table is boring.
Questions from breakeven traders
Keep the edge. Drop the tax.
You already did the hard part, which is finding something that works. The rest is subtraction. Free while in beta, no card, everything unlocked.