Guide / Paper trading
Read the Trade Journal
The Trade Journal holds every trade your strategies have recorded, in paper sessions and on live accounts, and sets them against market conditions and the news calendar. Open Review and switch to the Trade Journal tab.
Pick a period and a strategy
Daily analysis reviews one day; Weekly context reviews a whole week. The arrows and the date list beside them step back through earlier periods.
The Strategy menu at the top right scopes the whole page: All strategies, or one strategy. Each entry shows how many trades it closed in the period, and strategies that did not trade are still listed.
Personal strategy comparison
Every strategy you own is listed, including ones still awaiting results. Paper and live results sit in separate tables and are never added together.
| Column | What it means |
|---|---|
| Net P&L, Total R | The period’s result in dollars and in risk units |
| Contribution | The strategy’s share of the period’s profit |
| Trades, Max DD, Win rate | The sample behind the result |
| Status | Strong, Watch or Weak, from profit factor and trade count |
A strategy with fewer than 5 trades in the period is never marked Strong. Click a column heading to sort, or a row to select that strategy.
Current strategy suitability
For each strategy, the daily review reads the market’s trend and volatility over 1 day, 7 days, 14 days, 1 month and 3 months, and shows how the strategy has done in comparable conditions. A window is called a good or bad fit only with at least 15 comparable trades; otherwise it stays unknown, and an unknown condition never changes what Quorum trades. These reviews feed the pre-session Strategy Pick.
Green tags mark conditions where the strategy has already proven itself; red tags mark where it has not. The News sensitivity, Market shift, Condition fit and Performance review buttons tag a strategy for your own follow-up research.
News and market changes
Trades in the period are grouped by where they sat against high-impact releases: entered within 30 minutes of one, held through one, on a release day away from it, or on a day with no release. Weekly and monthly market record lists each week’s releases, how VIX moved, and the headlines found.
A result next to a release does not mean the release caused it.
Top 5 marketplace strategies
Published strategies ranked by their recorded forward results since the current revision: live results first, then paper. Backtests are not included.
Backtest baseline
With one strategy selected, the baseline shows whether its backtest still holds on its most recent stretch, where live results sit inside the range the backtest produces, and which setups, sides, volatility and news conditions work or fail. It also lists what changed on the strategy and when, so a turn in results can be read as “the market changed” or “the strategy did”.
Quorum computes the baseline, not the AI. To create or refresh it, open the strategy in the Sandbox with it on the TradingView chart and ask the Copilot whether its edge is real.