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5.1. Reading the Chart

Open Reflect → Replay. At the top is a list of every stock you have traded, open or closed: 156 of them for our example. Choose STYLAMIND. Figure 5-1 shows what follows.

Strategy ReplaySTYLAMIND ▾
First buyAdd trancheSell (profit)Sell (loss)
DWM
2,0003,0004,000Jan 25Apr 25Jul 25Oct 25Jan 26Apr 26Jul 26Oct 26
Figure 5-1: Replay for STYLAMIND, weekly, with every trade from October 2024 to June 2026 marked

The chart covers the whole time you have traded the stock, from the week of your first trade to today. Each candle is a week, as we saw in section 2.2. The switch at the top right changes the candles to days (D) or months (M).

Each of your trades sits on the chart as a dot, at the price you traded. The colour tells you what kind of trade it was:

  • First buy: a buy when you held none of the stock, which starts a new round.
  • Add tranche: a buy into a position you already held.
  • Sell (profit): a sale at or above your average cost at the time.
  • Sell (loss): a sale below it.

Reading STYLAMIND from the left, there are three rounds:

  1. A first buy in October 2024, at ₹2,360.45, sold in January 2025 at ₹2,137.70, a loss.
  2. A first buy in August 2025, at ₹1,783.40, sold three weeks later at ₹1,632.60, a loss.
  3. A first buy in October 2025, at ₹2,018, followed by five tranches up to June 2026. This is the position held today.

On the chart, the three rounds sit in quite different stretches of the stock's price. That is the kind of thing a table of trades cannot show.

Next, let's look at what Replay adds up beneath the chart.