Your report card, week by week

The transcript is the section of the History tab that shows every behavior Edge Lab grades, tracked over time. Behaviors run down the side as rows; weeks run across the top as columns, up to twelve of them.

Read a row left to right and you watch a grade move. That's the whole idea: it's the difference between knowing your risk control is a C and knowing it's been a C for eleven straight weeks.

The first column stays pinned as you scroll sideways, so you never lose track of which behavior you're looking at.

The three cell states

Every cell is one of three things, and they mean genuinely different things:

• A letter — this behavior was graded that week. Colour-coded the same way as the grade card.
• A dash (—) — we captured a reading that week, but Edge Lab didn't have enough of the relevant trading to grade this behavior yet. The legend says it outright: "— not enough trades for OTIS to grade this axis yet (not a bad grade)."
• A dot (·) — no reading was captured at all that week. Nothing was measured, about this behavior or any other.

The difference between the dash and the dot is worth holding on to. A dash is about that behavior; a dot is about that week. A row of dashes means you haven't done the kind of trading that behavior judges. A column of dots means we simply have no reading from that week.

Neither one is a bad grade. Hover any cell and it tells you which it is, with the date.

The Change column

At the end of each row, a summary of where that behavior went across the window: Improved, Slipped or No change, with the number of rungs it moved on the letter ladder.

The important detail: this is measured between your first and last graded letters — not the first and last cells in the row. Blank cells at either end are skipped.

That's what stops the column telling you a lie. If a behavior was unmeasured for six weeks and then came in at a C, reading the raw first and last cell would suggest a jump from nothing to C. There was no jump. There was no grade, and then there was a C.

"Newly measured"

For the same reason, the What moved section at the top of the History tab keeps newly-graded behaviors in their own list rather than mixing them into "Most improved."

A behavior appearing for the first time is a coverage change — Edge Lab now knows something it didn't before. It isn't a performance change, and it would be misleading to celebrate it as one. When you see something under Newly measured, read it as "this row just switched on," not "you got better at this."

The Overall standing

What moved also shows an Overall letter — a single grade summarising where you stand across the whole card.

It's the average of the letters you actually have. Behaviors that aren't graded yet are skipped entirely, never counted as an F. A trader with two A grades and everything else still unmeasured stands at an A, not a D.

When your overall standing changes, you'll see the old letter struck through next to the new one.

Why a row might go quiet

A behavior that was graded for weeks and then shows dashes hasn't been taken away from you. It means recent trading didn't include enough of what that behavior judges — you may have changed sessions, instruments, or simply traded less. The row stays on the transcript so the history is intact, and it picks back up when the relevant trading does.

Where to go next

• Reading your grade card — what each behavior measures, and the letter ladder.
• The History tab — the rest of the page this sits on.
• Your biggest leak — the behavior costing you the most, tracked over time.