Trades & Orders
Plots your own positions and working orders on the chart — entry / SL / TP lines, B/S markers, closed-trade history, and inline SL/TP generation.
Trades & Orders paints your own trading activity directly on the chart — open positions (manual and auto-trade), pending limit entries, working stop-loss / take-profit lines, and the history of trades you've already closed. It's the layer that turns the chart from a price view into your personal dashboard: where you entered, where your stop sits, where each TP will fire, and how every closed trade landed against the bars. Everything here is sourced from your connected exchange API — without an API connection there is nothing for the indicator to draw.
Settings reference
The popover has one section with four toggles. The header also surfaces a contextual Generate SL / TP card when one of your open positions is missing protection — covered below.
| Section | Setting | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trades & orders | Open orders | On | B / S markers — entry badges for filled positions (B for long, S for short), a pending L badge for working limit entries, plus the TP-hit / SL-hit ticks that print when a level fires. Applies to manual and auto-trade positions alike. |
| Live orders | On | Entry / SL / TP lines — horizontal price lines at your entry, each TP, and the stop, with draggable pills on the right margin showing ROE, distance, and the order kind. The shaded zone between entry and the nearest TP/SL paints in profit-green or loss-red depending on which side of entry price currently is. | |
| Trade history | Off | Closed trades — lightweight B / S markers at each closed entry plus a connector to the exit, with TP / SL hit ticks at the level the trade actually finished on. Includes both manual closes and completed auto-trade signals. Read-only. | |
| PnL amount | Off | Display preference for the entry pill. Off = ROE % only (good for screen sharing / streaming). On = show the dollar P&L value alongside the percentage. |
Hint shown under the toggles: Drag SL / TP / entry pills on the chart to edit.
Generate SL / TP card
When the chart has one or more open positions with no stop and no TPs set, a warning card sits at the top of the popover listing every unprotected position (manual or AUTO) and offering a one-click Generate action per row. The generator picks a stop from recent swing pivots and distributes three TPs based on the current timeframe — you can still drag any of the lines after they're placed. If every open position is already protected the card is hidden and the popover only shows the four toggles.
What it draws
Each layer is independent — turn off whatever you don't actively read, the others keep working.
| Layer | What appears on the chart |
|---|---|
| Entry badge | B (long) or S (short) marker at the bar where the position filled, in the side colour. Auto-trade fills carry an extra tag so you can tell them apart from clicks-on-chart entries. |
| Pending entry | L badge floating at the trigger price for a working limit order that hasn't filled yet — switches to a B / S once it fills. |
| Entry line | Solid horizontal at the average entry price, with a draggable pill on the right margin showing side, leverage, the live ROE %, and (optionally) the $ P&L. |
| TP lines | One horizontal per TP level you've set, in profit-green. Pill shows the distance to TP and the percentage of the position that will close at that level. Drag the pill to reprice. |
| SL line | Horizontal stop line in loss-red with a draggable pill showing the distance to entry. |
| PnL zone | Translucent shading between entry and the nearest TP/SL — green when current price is in profit territory, red when in drawdown. Updates live with the bar. |
| Hit ticks | Small tick marks at the exact bar where a TP or SL fired, so on review you can see which level closed the trade. |
| Closed-trade markers | When Trade history is on — entry → exit connectors for past trades with a small B/S at the entry and a tick at the closing level. |
The entry / SL / TP pills are interactive: drag any of them vertically to reprice the order and a confirmation dialog opens before the new price is sent to the exchange. Dropping back at the original price cancels the move.
How to read it
- Entry pill sitting on a wall in the heatmap — your limit-entry is queued behind serious depth. Expect a slow fill (or no fill) until that wall thins out.
- SL line right at a prior swing pivot — common pattern when the auto-generator places the stop. Reasonable in trend; risky in chop, since the pivot itself is the level price keeps poking.
- TP1 hit, TP2 still open — partial close has already trimmed the position. The entry pill's ROE updates to the remaining exposure, not the original size.
- Loss-zone shading growing — you're in drawdown and the SL is still distant. Decide whether to manually trim or let the stop handle it; don't decide in the moment with no plan.
- Closed history clustering on the same level — your repeat entries (or exits) keep happening at one price. Worth checking why that level is sticky for you — sometimes it's a real edge, sometimes it's a bias.
- PnL amount on while streaming — toggle it off. The ROE % tells you the same thing without leaking the dollar size of the account on camera.
Common pitfalls
- No API connection, no plot — Trades & Orders renders entirely from your connected exchange account. If you haven't linked an API key under API Connect the indicator stays empty. Plan tier doesn't matter; the data source does.
- Auto-trade and manual mixed without realising — open positions from the Auto Trade engine and clicks-on-chart positions both appear in the same layer. The pill tag (
AUTOvsMANUAL) is the only visual difference. Closing anAUTOposition from the chart will also tell the auto-trade engine that signal is closed — don't manually close one mid-cycle if you wanted the bot to run it through. - Dragging a pill thinks it's a confirmation — drag-to-reprice always opens a confirmation dialog before sending. If you let go and nothing happened, you didn't confirm; check the dialog hasn't been dismissed by another click.
- Trade history off → "missing trades" — if you can't find a closed position on the chart, Trade history is probably off. It's off by default because it adds visual density; turn it on for end-of-day review and back off for live trading.
- Generate SL / TP card unexpectedly visible — the card surfaces whenever any open position lacks both a stop and TPs. New manual entries placed via market order will trigger it until you set protection. Use the per-row Generate button, or set the levels yourself by dragging on the chart.
- PnL amount on during a screen-share — the entry pill prints your live dollar P&L. Most traders prefer ROE-only when streaming or recording. Toggle PnL amount off before going live.
What's next
- Auto Trade overview — how positions get opened automatically and how Trades & Orders surfaces them.
- Quick trade & floating bar — placing the orders that this indicator then draws.
- Large Trades — every trader's fills on the tape, not just yours.
- CVD — the aggregate buy / sell flow your individual trades sit inside.