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7.1. The Queue

Open Reflect → Journal. The left side of the page is the queue. It holds one event for each trade in your tradebooks. Our example's 650 trades make 650 events. We saw the queue filtered to KTKBANK in Figure 2-4.

Event Types​

Each event carries a type, which says what the trade did to the position:

  • BUY: the first buy of a position.
  • ADD: a later buy into the same position.
  • TRIM: a sale of part of the position.
  • SELL: the sale that closed the position.

How the Queue Is Arranged​

Events fall into three groups:

  • Unwritten comes first, with a count, and holds every event without a note. Each carries a ✎.
  • This week holds the events of the current week that already have a note.
  • Older holds the rest. Where a stock was sold out and bought again, a line marked new cycle separates one round from the next.

Filters​

Across the top of the queue are its filters:

  • All, Unwritten or Written, by whether the note is written,
  • a broker box and a symbol box, to narrow the queue to one of each,
  • Show stale, which we come to in section 7.3,
  • and a row of your hashtags. Click one to see only the events tagged with it; clear removes the filter.

Click an event, and the study desk opens. Let's look at the study desk.