Your platform might show three closed rows for a position you managed as one trade. You entered five contracts, took two partial exits, and closed the rest. For your journal and your coach, the useful story is the whole position: where you entered, how you managed it, and what happened when you exited.
TradeDeck lets you record those fills inside one trade or combine compatible records that are already in your journal. This guide walks through both paths.
First, decide what belongs together
A fill is an individual execution: buying or selling a particular quantity at a particular price and time. A position is the exposure you hold as those fills happen.
One trade runs from flat to flat: you start with no position, enter, perhaps add or take partial exits, and finish with no position. If you close everything and enter again later, that is a new trade—even if it is the same symbol, setup, and day.
- Not logged yet? Create a trade and add its individual entries and exits.
- Already recorded as several rows? Select the compatible rows and preview a combination.
- Already appears as one trade with its fills? Review it as it is; there is nothing to combine.
Combining is for pieces of the same position within one account. It does not merge different prop accounts or turn a full day of trading into one result.
Create a trade with multiple entries or exits
Open Log Trade and choose the account where the fills actually happened. Set the symbol, asset type, and direction. For futures, use the correct contract information and point value; similar-looking symbols can represent different instruments.
Enter your initial execution in the form. For a simple trade with one entry and one exit, you can keep using the simple fields. To record another execution, choose Add entry or Add exit. On the mobile app, these controls are in the Execution step.
The Entries and exits section shows the fill rows. Check the rows carried over from the simple form before adding more, so you do not enter the same execution twice.
- Action: entry adds to the position; exit reduces it. The form shows the corresponding buy or sell action for your direction.
- Quantity: the contracts or units for that individual fill.
- Price: the actual fill price, not a target or an average copied into every row.
- Fees: the fees for that fill. Allocate a statement's total once across the relevant rows, rather than repeating it on each row.
- Date and time: the execution timestamp, using the time zone shown in the editor. Check Settings if it does not match the times you are entering.
Add every entry and exit, then check Average entry, Position remaining, Realized P&L, and Total fees. If some contracts are still open, leave that quantity open instead of adding an exit that has not happened. Review the position and save.
Example: five contracts, three exits, one trade
Here is a sample long MNQ position, using a $2 point value per contract:
- 9:30 AM: buy 5 at 20,000; $2.50 in fees.
- 9:31 AM: sell 1 at 20,010; $0.50 in fees.
- 9:32 AM: sell 1 at 20,020; $0.50 in fees.
- 9:33 AM: sell 3 at 20,030; $1.50 in fees.
The result is one closed trade with four fills. Average entry is 20,000. The quantity-weighted average exit is 20,024: the three-contract exit contributes more than either one-contract exit. Gross P&L is $240, total fees are $5, and realized P&L after fees is $235.
Peak position size is 5 contracts and position remaining is 0. The quantity is not 10 just because five contracts were bought and five were sold. TradeDeck records the largest position held, not the sum of both sides of the transaction.
Combine trades already in your journal
Start in the trades list and filter to the relevant account. Compare the rows with your platform's execution history. Select only the pieces of the same continuous position; do not select duplicate imports or unrelated re-entries.
On the web, use the selection checkboxes and choose Combine into one trade. On smaller web screens, look in More actions. In the native app, tap Select trades, select the rows, then tap Combine with the selected count.
TradeDeck opens a preview before changing your records. Check:
- Average entry and exit, peak position size, and position remaining.
- Realized P&L, total fees, fill count, and timestamps.
- The affected accounts and any notices about differing journal fields or recalculated P&L.
If everything matches the position you intended, choose Confirm combination. Open the resulting trade and review its execution history. TradeDeck uses the actual fill sequence and running average cost; a recalculation can differ from the sum of older saved rows, and the preview calls out that difference.
Suggestions after logging or importing are invitations to review compatible records. They do not combine trades automatically.
Why some trades cannot be combined
The selected records must describe a compatible position: the same account, symbol, asset type, direction, and relevant contract details. For options, the exact option identity matters; for futures, delivery contracts must match.
TradeDeck also checks the sequence. Two separate round trips cannot become one trade simply because both were longs on the same morning. If you were completely flat between them, keep them separate.
Missing exit details, incomplete historical fills, or incompatible copy settings can also prevent a combination. Use the explanation in the preview to correct the underlying records. Do not invent fills or change account assignments just to make a combination pass.
What about copied prop accounts?
Keep each account's executions and results attached to that account. Account A and Account B may follow the same idea but have different sizes, fees, or fills.
When the selected trades have existing linked copies, TradeDeck includes the affected accounts in the preview and reconciles compatible positions within each account. Check every account shown before confirming. This is not a reason to select unrelated records across accounts or log another copy of an import you already saved.
Realized trading P&L after fees is also different from a prop firm's payout or an after-split estimate. Use the relevant account view for that context; the combine preview is describing the trade's executions.
Undo a combination
Open the combined trade's execution history and choose Separate trade. You can also select the combined row in the trades list and use Separate trade when available. Review the originals, then choose Restore original trades.
The preview explains which records and accounts will be restored. Later journal text, tags, and attachments are retained with the first restored trade in each affected account; the preview describes other journal changes. If the financial history has changed since combining, separation may be paused to avoid discarding those edits. Read that message before making further changes.
Before you send the trade to your coach
Check the account, contract, fill times, quantities, and fees against your platform. Confirm that an open position still shows its remaining quantity and a finished position shows zero. Then add the setup, a useful screenshot, and a short note on why you added, reduced, or closed the position.
Your coach should be able to follow the decisions behind the trade without piecing together several disconnected rows. Keep separate trading decisions separate, and let the fills tell the story of each position.