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Trade Recap: Where Every Dollar of Premium Came From & Went

Published August 31, 2026
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Trade Recap: Where Every Dollar of Premium Came From & Went

Trade Recap is a new trade-level report built for premium sellers. Pick your strategies and a date range, and it lays out everything from today's activity down to the individual position that moved a number. Find it in the Tracking menu under Strategies, or from the Trade Recap button on the View Strategies page.

It reads from the same trades table every broker order lands in, not a bot-only log, so anything carrying a Strategy Assignment shows up once you select that strategy: whether a bot opened it or you assigned it by hand.

Start with today

The report opens on Today's Seller Dashboard, an operational snapshot as of right now: gross premium opened today, Realized Profits, total fees, gross premium outstanding, what expires today, and assignments. A small table puts today's numbers next to your average active day in the selected range, so you can tell a slow day from a normal one.

Today's Seller Dashboard tiles showing gross premium opened today, Realized Profits today, total fees today, gross premium outstanding, expiring today, and assignments today
Today's Seller Dashboard: the first thing you see, built for a same-day check-in.

Then work the whole range

Twenty sections build out the rest of the picture: a Scorecard and Highlights pair, opening activity with daily and cumulative premium, an equity curve with its underwater drawdown line, a waterfall bridging premium sold down to what you actually kept, win and loss analytics, days in trade, cost and fee drag, symbol concentration, and a Strategy Scoreboard whenever your selection resolves to more than one strategy.

DTE Quality asks a question most sellers never get a clean answer to: is the days-to-expiration you usually enter at the one actually performing best? Each bucket draws gross premium opened behind collected P/L, so the hatched remainder at the top of a bar is the premium that got away.

The DTE Quality chart with hatched gross-premium-opened bars overlaid by solid collected P/L bars and a capture-rate line, above a per-bucket table
DTE Quality: the hatched top of each bar is premium you opened but did not keep.

See what is still at risk

Two sections cover the open book. Expiration Runway groups gross premium outstanding into DTE buckets and charts it by expiration and symbol, flagging the concentration when a single symbol carries 40% or more of what is outstanding. Assignment Risk ranks every still-open short contract by how close it sits to the money, highlighting anything within 5% and flagging in red whatever is already in the money.

The Expiration Runway DTE tiles above a stacked bar chart of gross premium outstanding by expiration date and symbol
Expiration Runway: what is coming due, and how concentrated it is in any one symbol.

Trace any number back to the fill

Four sections ship with an expandable tree: Credit / debit by symbol, the capture waterfall, the open premium pipeline, and Realized Outcomes. Click any row to lazy-load its children and drill from symbol to expiration to strike, and every parent rolls up everything beneath it. The bottom of each branch is a position leaf carrying the strategy name, the account, the open date, and an order-number link that opens the Trade Log to that exact order.

A drill-down tree expanded through symbol, expiration, and strike to a position leaf showing its order-number link, account, and open date
Expanded to a position leaf: the fastest way from a number in Trade Recap to the fills behind it.

Getting around and taking it with you

Once a recap has run, a Report Index rail lists every section that actually rendered for your selection, so you can jump straight to the one you want; on smaller screens it opens as a slide-out panel. Three sections offer a CSV export, and your strategy selection is written into the page URL, so you can bookmark a recap or send someone a link that reruns it on open.

Open Trade Recap from the Tracking menu, pick a strategy and a date range, and click Run Recap.