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Post From: incorrect dpl

[2024-09-30 18:15:27]
John - SC Support - Posts: 36238
The section you need from the "Help with Daily Profit Loss" is step #7, which states the following:
Alternatively set the Chart >> Chart Settings >> Trading >> Order Fills Start Date-Time. This is usually going to be the better option to use. Set this to the starting Date-Time when your Trade Position was flat for the Symbol and Trade Account of the chart or Trade DOM, just before you began trading for the current day. It is better to use this particular setting and periodically update it.

Make sure this is set far enough back in time to include the order fills for the last 24 hours so there is sufficient data for the Daily Profit/Loss calculation.

If you are not sure what to set it to, then if your Trade Position is currently flat, then set it to the current Date-Time according to the time zone of the chart. If you currently have a Trade Position, then wait until it is flat and then set it at that time to the current Date-Time.

It does not need to be updated every day. If it goes back several days that is fine. But it just needs to be set to a point in time where the Trade Position was flat and there must not be any missing order fills since that time. If there is even a single missing fill this will very likely lead to a problem with the Daily Profit/Loss calculation.

Remember when opening the Chart Settings window, you are opening the Chart Settings for the chart which is active. Each chart has its own settings.

The above has you set a starting Date and Time for when the order fills are loaded in the chart. This let's you "reset" the date/time from when the Daily Profit/Loss will be calculated. So make sure you are flat in the market and set the "Chart >> Chart Settings >> Trading >> Order Fills Start Date-Time" to be the current date and time.

You should be fine moving forward from there.

Keep in mind, you will need to do this for every chart from which you make trades.

Separately, you should make sure that you have the correct "Trade and Current Quote Symbol" set for your charts in order to ensure that you are trading the symbol you think you are.
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