The Trades tab is the fifth and last tab of the Options Journal. Where the other tabs aggregate, summarize, or group your activity, Trades shows the raw feed — every individual buy, sell, expiration, dividend, and adjustment from every connected broker, presented as-is. This is the deepest-detail view in the product.
Use the Trades tab when you need audit-level specificity — reconciling a broker statement, hunting for a trade that didn't import, or manually capturing a trade from an unsupported broker.
Before you start
Required:
- Sandbox preview, any paid plan, or an active $1 trial. Logged-in free accounts may see an upgrade prompt.
- At least one connected broker, manually added trades, or manually-imported CSV trades.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
What's on the screen
1. Controls at the top
A set of filters and actions runs across the top of the tab:
- "N total" counter — total number of trades in the current filter view (e.g., "210 total")
- Resync button — forces a fresh sync with your brokers
- +Add Trade — opens a manual-entry form to record a trade by hand
- Manage Brokers link — shortcut to broker-integration settings
📸 SCREENSHOT: trade-feed-step-1.png
2. Filters
Below the top bar, filters narrow the feed:
- All Accounts dropdown — filter by specific connected broker
- Symbol search — restrict to trades on one or more tickers
- All Sources — filter by trade source (broker auto-sync vs. manually added vs. CSV import)
- From Date / To Date — limit to a date range
- Trades Only toggle — hide non-trade entries (dividends, adjustments) when on
- Hide P&L toggle — blank out dollar figures for screenshots or privacy
3. The trade table
Below the filters, the feed itself — one row per raw trade, newest typically at the top. Columns:
- Date — when the trade happened
- Account — which connected broker account, with the broker's label
- Symbol — ticker, plus option contract detail (strike, expiration, type) for option trades
- Type — BUY or SELL
- Qty — number of shares or contracts
- Price — per-share or per-contract price at execution
- Amount — total dollar amount (Price × Qty, adjusted for contract multiplier)
- Source — where this trade came from; broker auto-sync rows are tagged BROKER
- Actions — per-row menu for edit, delete (manual trades only), or view details
📸 SCREENSHOT: trade-feed-step-2.png
How to use the Trade feed
Reconciling with a broker statement
When your broker's monthly statement arrives, filter Trades by that broker + the statement's date range. Compare row counts and sums to the broker's statement. Differences usually come from pending trades that haven't settled (show on QuantWheel but not yet on the statement) or from trade vs. settle date conventions.
Hunting a missing trade
If you remember executing a trade but can't find it on the Transactions or Calendar tabs, check Trades. If it's here but not in the aggregates, the sync captured it but the categorization is off — that's usually a QuantWheel-side issue worth reporting via the Help link. If it's not here at all, the broker sync missed it — try Resync, and if it still doesn't appear, manually add it with +Add Trade.
Adding trades from unsupported sources
If you trade on a broker QuantWheel doesn't natively support (international brokers, crypto-centric platforms), use +Add Trade to enter each trade manually. It's slow, but the trade then flows into every aggregate — Transactions, Per-Ticker, Profit View, all of it — as if it came from a native sync.
An alternative for larger histories: Settings → CSV Import can ingest many trades at once from a broker CSV. Manual add is for one-off trades; CSV import is for bulk.
Tax-prep data extraction
For US tax purposes, the Trades tab is the closest QuantWheel view to what tax software expects (individual line-level trades with date, symbol, quantity, price, amount). Most brokers provide a 1099-B directly, so Trades is more useful as a cross-check than as a source. If you trade across multiple brokers and want a unified view, Trades with filters set to the full tax year is a useful reconciliation lens.
📸 SCREENSHOT: trade-feed-step-3.png
Common issues
The total count shows more trades than I remember making.
The feed counts every leg of every transaction. A single roll is 2 trades (buy-to-close the old, sell-to-open the new). A called-away covered call is 2 events (the call assignment plus the stock sale). Active wheelers accumulate a trade count much larger than their "position" count for this reason.
Trades from my broker show the wrong account label.
Sometimes SnapTrade's category label doesn't match how you think of an account (e.g., "Individual Brokerage" vs. what your broker calls it). The account label is whatever the broker API returns. Not typically editable from QuantWheel's side.
A BUY trade shows a negative Amount.
Amount follows the cash direction. A buy spends cash, so Amount is negative (money left your account). A sell brings in cash, so Amount is positive. This sign convention is consistent across the feed.
Dividends don't show when Trades Only is on.
That's the toggle working as designed — dividends aren't trades, so they're hidden when you filter to trades only. Toggle off to see dividends and cash-transfer events alongside trades.
I added a trade manually but it doesn't appear on Transactions.
Check three things: (1) does the manual trade represent a closing action, since Transactions shows only closed (Locked In) transactions; (2) does the Exclude Roll P&L toggle on Transactions exclude the trade's category; (3) has enough time passed for the journal aggregates to re-process. If all three check out and the trade still doesn't appear, it's likely a QuantWheel-side bug — use Report it.
Can I bulk-delete manually-added trades?
Not in bulk today. Each manually-added trade has a delete option in its row's Actions menu. For large cleanups, deleting one-by-one is the only path. Auto-synced broker trades can't be deleted — they re-import on next sync.