Merge or split trades

Sometimes the journal shows a trade differently from how you think of it. You scaled into a position with three separate orders and see three trades, or you closed a trade in two steps and want to look at each step alone. Merge puts several trades into one row. Split breaks one trade apart. A fill is one piece of a trade: one part of it bought or sold at one price.

Merge trades

1. 1Open one of the trades: in Journal, click it.
2. 2Find the Merge / split panel and press Merge with another trade.
3. 3In the list, tick one or more trades. Only trades on the same account, same symbol and same side (buy or sell) are listed.
4. 4Press Merge (it shows how many trades).

The trade now says it combines those trades. The review, tags, notes and screenshots follow the earliest trade of the group.

Split a trade

1. 1Open the trade and press Split this trade in the Merge / split panel.
2. 2Pick the fill where the new trade starts. Everything before it stays on this trade.
3. 3Press Split here.

Undo

A merged trade shows Undo merge, and a split trade shows Undo split. Press it and confirm. The original trades come back. Both edits survive your next sync: FxMind remembers the merge or split and applies it again, so your edit is not lost.

Limits

• A trade with only one fill cannot be split: the panel says there is nothing to split.
• A split is refused when the chosen point would cut one broker deal's profit between two trades. FxMind will not guess a share.
• A trade that is already the result of a merge or a split cannot be merged or split again. Undo the first edit, then do the new one.