2.2. One Position Up Close
A row on the Dashboard sums a position up in one line. Opening it shows how the position came to be. In this section, we open KTKBANK and look at it two ways: as a table of its tranches, and as trades on a price chart.
The Tranche Table
Click the KTKBANK row, and it opens to show Figure 2-2: one line for every buy, newest at the top.
KTKBANK
946 shares · average cost ₹258.21 · CMP ₹329.85 · +27.7%
| Tranche | Date | Qty | Price ₹ | Amount | Δ Size | % Capital | CMP vs Tranche | Tranche vs Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T5 | 2026-08-28 | 148 | 330.35 | ₹48,892 | +25% | 0.98% | −0.1% | +27.9% |
| T4 | 2026-08-07 | 126 | 310 | ₹39,060 | +25% | 0.78% | +6.4% | +20.1% |
| T3 | 2026-07-31 | 110 | 284.75 | ₹31,323 | +25% | 0.63% | +15.8% | +10.3% |
| T2 | 2026-04-10 | 103 | 242.97 | ₹25,026 | +25% | 0.50% | +35.8% | −5.9% |
| T1 | 2026-03-06 | 459 | 217.8 | ₹99,970 | — | 2.00% | +51.5% | −15.7% |
The first columns are the facts of each buy, straight from the tradebook: its date, the number of shares, the price and the amount paid. T1, on 6 March 2026, bought 459 shares at ₹217.80. The four buys after it came between April and August 2026.
The remaining columns compare each tranche with the others and with today:
- Δ Size is the tranche's amount as a percentage of everything bought before it. T2 cost ₹25,026, which is 25% of T1's ₹99,970. T1 has nothing before it, so it shows a dash. In this position, each of the four later buys came to about a quarter of what had been bought before it.
- % Capital is the tranche's amount as a percentage of the portfolio's capital, ₹50 lakh in our example. T1 comes to 2.00% of that. (If the total invested across all positions is ever larger than your capital, Tradestory uses that total instead.)
- CMP vs Tranche is how far today's price is from the tranche's price. T1 was bought at ₹217.80, and today's ₹329.85 is 51.5% above it. T5 was bought at ₹330.35, almost exactly today's price.
- Tranche vs Avg is how far the tranche's price is from the position's average cost of ₹258.21. The early tranches sit below the average and the later ones above it.
If you buy a position in one go, opening its row shows a single line, T1, with the same columns.
On the real screen, each line also shows the broker, and a Journal column where a note on that trade can be read or written. We'll come to notes in a moment.
The Same Trades on a Chart
A table gives the exact numbers. A chart shows what the price was doing around each buy. Open Reflect → Replay and choose KTKBANK. Replay opens on a weekly chart, with every trade marked at its price. Figure 2-3 shows it, with the tranches labelled T1 to T5.
KTKBANK
Each candle is one week of trading. Its body runs from the week's opening price to its closing price, filled green when the week closed higher and red when it closed lower. The thin line through it reaches the week's high and low.
Reading the chart with the table beside it, the two early buys came in March and April 2026, and the next three came in quick succession between late July and late August, at higher prices.
In the app, the markers are named by kind: the First buy, each Add tranche, and sales marked as Sell (profit) or Sell (loss). Alongside the chart, Replay totals the position: its trades, average cost, last price, the shares still held, and the realised and unrealised profit or loss. You can switch the chart between daily, weekly and monthly candles. Chapter 5 covers Replay in full.
Next, let's look at writing down why.