The History tab
The Report tab tells you how you're trading. The History tab tells you whether you're getting better.
It exists because we capture a fresh read of your trading every night and keep it. The analysis engine itself only ever holds your current diagnosis — everything on this page is built from the history we've kept on your behalf.
The tab covers a rolling 12-week window — a trading quarter. Long enough for a grade to genuinely move, short enough that the tables stay readable.
What's on the page
Seven sections, top to bottom:
- What moved — your most-improved and most-slipped behaviors over the window, shown as
from → to, plus an overall standing. - Your scores over time — your Edge and Psychology scores charted, with your account milestones marked.
- Your report card, week by week — every graded behavior as a row, every week as a column. See Your report card, week by week.
- How you actually traded — your real week-by-week trades, win rate, profit factor and net P&L.
- What your trades were worth — how your graded trade mix has shifted, and what each grade earned you. See What your trades were worth.
- Your biggest leak, over time — the leaks you've had and the ones you've moved past. See Your biggest leak.
- Grade coverage and Against the desk — how much of your card is measured, and where you stand among other traders. See How you compare to the desk.
Your milestones on the chart
The score chart marks the things that actually happened to your account:
| Marker | What it means |
|---|---|
| Funded | You were funded on an account, with its size |
| Eval passed | You passed an evaluation |
| Payout | A payout was paid to you, with the amount |
| Breach | A funded account breached |
| Reset | An account was reset |
This is the part no trade journal and no analytics tool can do, because nobody else holds both halves. Edge Lab knows how you traded and it knows the day you got funded, the day your first payout landed, and the day an account breached.
That makes questions like "how did I trade in the two weeks after my first payout?" answerable by looking, rather than by memory. Pressure shows up in the psychology line, and now you can see exactly what pressure it was reacting to.
"Carried forward"
Hover a point on the chart and you may see the note "Carried forward from your last reading."
That means there was no fresh read captured that day, so the chart holds your score at its last known level rather than inventing one. A flat stretch on the line means no new information, not a frozen score.
You'll also notice the line breaks across longer gaps rather than dropping to the floor. That's on purpose. A score of zero would mean something catastrophic; a gap in our capture means nothing at all about your trading, and drawing it as a plunge to zero would be alarming and false.
Reading the weekly table
The How you actually traded table is your real week-by-week numbers — trades, win rate, profit factor and net P&L — each shown against your all-time figure so you can see whether the last week beat your own average.
The analysis engine only reports all-time totals. These weekly figures come from comparing each week's reading with the one before it. That's a reliable way to recover a week's true numbers, but it means a few situations need flagging rather than silently rendering. When you see a badge on a row:
- Recalculated — the engine went back and re-ran an earlier stretch of your trading, so the before-and-after readings aren't measuring the same thing. That week's numbers can't be compared fairly, so we suppress them and say so: "OTIS recalculated this period — these numbers aren't comparable."
- Catching up — the analysis hasn't yet caught up with the most recent trades we've sent. The week is real, but it understates: expect the figures to fill in on the next read.
- Quiet — you didn't trade that week. That's a true zero and we show it. A chart that quietly drops your quiet weeks would flatter your consistency, which is the opposite of what Edge Lab is for.
Two more things worth knowing about that table:
- "No losses" appears in place of a profit factor when a week had no losing trades at all. There's no ratio to compute — that's a clean sweep, not missing data.
- Win rate counts scratches in the denominator, the same way the analysis engine does. A scratched trade is neither a win nor a loss, but it is a trade, so it's in the count. Your win rate here may read slightly lower than one you calculate wins-over-losses elsewhere.
Before you have history
The History tab needs more than one reading to show a trend, so early on you'll see one of two messages:
- "Your history starts here" — no read has been captured yet. Once your first one is, this is where you'll watch your grades move.
- "Your history starts today" — your first read has been captured, and the page names the date. Come back tomorrow and it starts showing movement.
At the foot of the page, once you're up and running: "Your latest read was captured [date]. Edge Lab updates nightly."
Where to go next
- Your report card, week by week — the transcript, and its three cell states.
- What your trades were worth — your graded trade mix and what it earned.
- Your biggest leak — leaks you have, and leaks you've beaten.
- How you compare to the desk — your standing among other traders.