Adding your own fields: tags, ideas and strategies
Actal has no custom columns. It has three things you name yourself: tags, which are free words on a review; ideas, which are patterns you notice and link trades to, with their own stats; and strategies, which carry your rules and what earns each grade. All three filter the Trades page. Tags and strategies filter and break down Stats as well.
Where each one is set
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Tags: on the trade review, under Tags. Click a suggestion or type your own and press Enter. They are saved with the review.
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Ideas: on the trade review under Ideas, or on the Ideas page with "New idea". A new name asks one line: "What did you notice?" An idea saves the moment you add it.
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Strategies: Settings > Strategies, "+ New strategy". Then pick it in the Strategy dropdown on each review.
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Filter: on the Trades page use the Strategy, Mistakes, Tag and Idea dropdowns. On Stats use Strategy, Mistakes and Tag.
Ideas
An idea is a pattern you have started to notice, for example "they flush the overnight low first, then it runs". It works like a tag on trades, but it keeps stats: trades, win rate, net P&L, average R, the share graded A or B, and when it was last seen. You add trades to it from the review, or select rows on the Trades page and use "Add to idea..." in the bar at the bottom.
- The Ideas page lists every idea with its stats. An idea with 5 or more trades, net above zero and a win rate of 50% or more is marked "worth a setup?", and the insights say "Your idea is holding up".
- Open an idea to see its trades, up to 24 of their screenshots, and the buttons "Turn into a strategy", "Archive" and "Delete". Deleting an idea keeps the trades; only the link goes.
- "Turn into a strategy" creates a strategy with the idea's name and note, so you can add grade criteria and pick it on reviews from then on.
- A name is 80 characters at most, the note 500.
Strategies
A strategy is a named setup with Setup rules, Risk rules, Notes and Grade criteria: one line per grade, A to F, that shows next to the grade buttons while you review a trade tagged with that strategy. Set it in the Strategy dropdown on the review. Every edit keeps a version snapshot. Archive a strategy to drop it from the dropdown without losing the trades that use it.
Where strategies show: the Strategy column on Trades (on by default), the "Strategy" filter on Trades and Stats with "No strategy set" as an option, and the "By strategy" card on Stats.
What does not exist
- Custom columns on the trade row. The Columns menu only shows and hides the built-in ones.
- Setting a tag, idea or strategy from an import file. The column mapper has no such field; they are set on the review.
- An idea filter on Stats. Ideas have their own pages instead.
- Tags in the insights engine. Insights use mistakes, grades, rule breaks and ideas.
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