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Create, Adjust & Manage Trades

Create and submit trades, adjust them, and manage your trade log

Creating & Submitting a Trade

Open the order dialog from the Trading workspace. Use Create New Trade for a brand-new position, or Add Positions to Trade when adding to an existing one. Name the trade and set its details: Strategy, Strategy Type (auto-detected from your legs (e.g., Call Debit Spread), or set manually), Campaign, Setup, Timeframe, and Tags, plus up to ten user-defined fields and notes.

You can save the trade in Stratsigma only or submit it to your broker. To submit, choose the Broker and Account, then the order: direction (Buy / Sell), type (Market or Limit), and duration (Day or Good Till Cancelled). For a limit order the bid, mid/theo, and ask prices are pre-computed. Pick one or enter your own. The dialog previews each order leg (e.g., BUY_TO_OPEN 1x SPY260526C00760000) with its estimated commission and total cost.

When you submit to a broker, Stratsigma creates the trade and sends the order directly; as the fills come back they are auto-synced onto that trade through Broker Sync, so you never reconcile by hand. Two broker differences to know: with Tradier the order is submitted in full, while with Interactive Brokers the order is sent to TWS in a saved (untransmitted) state. You still transmit it from TWS.

Trade Alerts

When creating a trade, or later from Trade Detail, you can attach alerts. Delta alerts watch an upper and lower limit with a tolerance; P&L alerts watch a loss limit and a profit target. Each can notify you when a limit is breached and/or when the position returns within limits, and can be restricted to a daily time window (ET), such as market hours only.

Stratsigma emails you when a trade crosses a limit and again when it returns within limits, so you do not have to watch the position through the day. See Delta Monitoring & Alerts for how these are evaluated and delivered.

Adjusting a Trade

To adjust a position you already hold, model the change in the Trading workspace. Type quantities into the Model fields or drag legs to new strikes (Ctrl-click to move several at once, such as rolling a spread), then submit it with Add Positions to Trade. The new executions are recorded against the same trade rather than creating a separate one.

Executions that belong to one adjustment share an Adjustment ID, so a trade's history reads as a sequence of adjustments. See Modeling a Position in the Trading Workspace for the modeling mechanics.

The Trades Summary List

The Trades Summary list is your trade log: every saved trade, one per row. Columns include Symbol, Name, Setup, Expiration, Timeframe, Strategy, Campaign, Broker Account, Status, Opened, and Closed, plus the P&L breakdown: Gross Realized, Commissions, Realized, Unrealized, and Net P&L. Click a column such as Opened to sort.

Filter the list by Symbol, Name, Setup, Expiration, Timeframe, Strategy, Campaign, ONE Account, Broker Account, Status (open / closed / all), Alert Source, and opened / closed date ranges. Clear Filters resets them. Click a row to open its Trade Detail.

Trade Row Actions

Each row in the Trades Summary has a set of action icons:

  • Copy: duplicate the trade
  • Delete: remove the trade
  • Split: split a multi-leg trade into separate trades, one per leg
  • Move executions: reassign executions to another trade (for example, if a fill was linked to the wrong trade)
  • Load: open the trade in the Trading workspace

Trade Detail

Click a trade to open Trade Detail, where every field is editable in place: Strategy, Strategy Type, Campaign, Setup, Timeframe, Broker Account, Open and Closed times, Notes, Tags, Alerts, and user-defined fields. Close marks the trade closed; Delete removes it.

Option Legs lists each leg with its quantity, long / short side, strike, expiration, OCC symbol, and average cost. Trade Executions lists every fill: type (buy / sell), leg, OCC symbol, quantity, cost, commission, time, broker, account, source (broker or import), broker order ID, and the Adjustment ID it belongs to. Individual executions can be edited, moved, or deleted from here.

Bulk Actions

Select multiple trades with the row checkboxes to act on them together:

  • Update Selected: opens Bulk Update Trades to set Setup, Strategy, Campaign, Broker Account, Timeframe, user-defined fields, and Status across every selected trade; any field left blank keeps each trade's existing value
  • Merge Selected: combine the selected trades into one
  • Delete Selected: remove all selected trades

Splitting Trades & Moving Executions

Split Trade breaks a multi-leg trade into separate trades, one per leg, each carrying its own executions. Use it when legs were grouped into a single trade that you would rather track individually.

Move Executions reassigns executions from one trade to another, useful when a fill was linked to the wrong trade. Pick a target trade, select the executions to move (entering a partial quantity splits an execution between two trades), and confirm. When you choose Create New Trade, the symbol is automatically set from the underlying of the earliest execution you are moving, not inherited from the trade you are moving them out of.

Exporting Trades

Export Summary immediately downloads the current (filtered) list as a CSV. This is trade-level data only (one row per trade, not individual executions). It includes each trade's identity and metadata (Symbol, Name, Setup, Expiration, Timeframe, Strategy, Strategy Type, Campaign, ONE Account, Broker Account), Status, Opened / Closed times, the full P&L breakdown (Gross Realized, Commissions, Realized, Unrealized, Net P&L), Tags, Notes, and all ten user-defined name / value pairs.

For execution-level data, use the CSV export in Broker Sync, which offers Core or Full detail.