A green day can be full of red trades
The calendar heatmap and the trade table are two cameras pointed at the same session.
Day P&L is the sum for a calendar date. Trade P&L is per closed position. They agree on the total and disagree about everything interesting.
The day that looks fine
Twelve thousand rupees green, one hero trade, three quiet disasters. The heatmap paints that square the same shade as a clean, boring, process-perfect session.
Open the table.
Four losers, one outsized winner, one scratch. Illustrative journal data, not a live book and not a performance claim.
Think in financial years
Most global journals default to a January start. Indian traders and their CAs think 1 April to 31 March, so a tool that only offers rolling windows will constantly disagree with the paperwork pile.
Rolling windows are for recent process. The financial year is for the record.
Do not mix mark-to-market with closed-only
If Monday includes open positions marked at the close and Tuesday counts only closed trades, your streak counter is meaningless. Pick one, label it, keep it.
- Net day P&L, charges included
- Fill count against the planned activity level
- Largest single winner and loser inside the day
- Whether the day is closed-only or includes marked-to-market positions
- Financial year the day belongs to, not the calendar year
Key takeaways
- Review the heatmap and the trade table together.
- Keep the financial year as a first-class range.
- Never mix mark-to-market and closed-only in one streak.
Not advice, not a call. NiyataBook is a personal trading journal, not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst. Everything above looks backwards at trades that already closed. What happened in a book does not promise what happens next, and F&O can take a year’s savings in a week.