PnL Studio
Turn your cTrader trade history into a visual performance dashboard and instantly see trading patterns, strengths and areas for improvement.
PnL Studio is a powerful analytics plugin that transforms your trade history into a clear visual dashboard. Instead of scrolling through long lists of trades, you can quickly understand how your trading performs across days, weeks and strategies.
With calendar-based performance tracking, key statistics and detailed trade inspection tools, PnL Studio helps traders analyse results and identify patterns that can improve decision-making.
Key Features
Visual trading performance calendar
Instantly see how each trading day performed with a colour-coded calendar heatmap.
• Green = profitable days
• Red = losing days
• Darker colours = larger PnL
• Activity indicators show trading intensity
• Direction arrows highlight winning or losing days
Click any day to drill down into the trades that produced that result.
Day-by-day trade review
Select any day from the calendar to inspect the exact trades behind the result.
View:
• Trade list with symbol, direction, volume and PnL
• Strategy label for each trade
• Intraday equity progression
• Day statistics including best trade, worst trade and win rate
Monthly performance dashboard
Quickly understand your monthly trading performance with key metrics including:
• Total PnL
• Number of trades
• Win rate
• Profit factor
• Maximum closed drawdown
• Best and worst trading days
Strategy and symbol filtering
Analyse specific strategies or markets using flexible filters.
Filter results by:
• Strategy label
• Symbol
• Gross or Net PnL
• Time scope (month or year)
Strategy performance overview
Automatically summarises results for each strategy label so you can quickly compare performance.
Includes:
• Total profit
• Average trade result
• Trade count
• Strategy strength rating
Long-term performance insights
Track consistency over time with built-in summaries including:
• Monthly overview for the current year
• Five-year annual performance breakdown
Built for traders who want deeper insight
Whether you trade manually or run automated strategies, PnL Studio helps you understand how your trading performs over time.
Use it to:
• Identify profitable trading days
• Detect performance patterns
• Analyse strategy behaviour
• Monitor trading consistency
Works alongside other AWTrades tools:
PnL Studio is part of the wider AWTrades toolkit designed to help traders understand both performance and risk more clearly.
You can combine it with:
• Risk Watch – a live risk monitoring plugin that shows current exposure, worst-case risk and open position concentration across your account.
• Trade Analytics – an advanced dashboard that evaluates the statistical quality of your trading edge, including expectancy, consistency and profit concentration.
Together these tools create a more complete trading workflow:
PnL Studio – visual performance review
Risk Watch – live risk and exposure monitoring
Trade Analytics – edge quality and robustness analysis
Simple and lightweight
PnL Studio runs directly inside cTrader and requires no external software.
Just open the PnL Studio tab to instantly visualise and analyse your trading performance.
