Behaviour
Every other page in this section measures your money. This one measures the way you trade: how long you hold, and which of your decisions actually worked.
What this page is
Behaviour reads the trades you have completed and reports the habits it can see in them. How long you tend to hold. Whether your traits show up consistently. Which three decisions made you the most money, and which two cost you the most.
It is built entirely from round trips — a complete buy-then-sell cycle. Buying alone produces no realised result, so the page stays empty until you have sold something and reads "No behaviour data yet. Record some trades to see your patterns."
Read it as a mirror, not a report card. Nothing here judges whether you are a good investor, and nothing on the page is advice.
Why it helps you
- The Holding Period Distribution is the honest picture of what you actually do, as opposed to what you think you do. Traders who describe themselves as swing traders often find most of their bars sitting in the under-7-day bucket.
- Worst Decisions is the page that matters after a bad month. Ranked by net loss, it usually shows the same failure repeating: a position that got too large, or one that was held past the point where the reason for buying had gone.
- Read the Confidence figure on each pattern card against its Evidence count before you believe it. A trait at 90 percent confidence built on two trades is coincidence; the same trait across forty trades is a habit worth changing.
- The holding histogram has a direct rupee consequence. Crossing 365 days drops capital-gains tax from 10 percent to 7.5 percent, so bars clustered just under a year are money handed over for no reason.
- Best Decisions is worth reading for what the trades have in common rather than for the totals. If your three best all came from one sector, or all from holding through a dull stretch, that is the habit to keep.
- Because fees are charged on both legs, a share sold at exactly your buy price lands in Worst Decisions as a small loss. For a long-term holder that is a useful reminder of what churning costs.
When to use it, and where to find it
- At the end of a quarter, once enough round trips exist for the counts to mean anything.
- After a run of losses, to see whether the losing trades share a holding period or a sector.
- Before changing your approach, so the change answers something the data shows rather than a feeling.
- Alongside the Trading Journal, comparing what you wrote at the time against what the trade actually did.
Try it — a short walkthrough
- 1Check your sample size firstRead Closed Round-Trips, Winning Trades and Losing Trades before anything else. Every other conclusion on the page rests on those three counts.See this part in detail →
- 2Read the grade for what it measuresThe letter is how clearly your habits are recognisable, not how good they are. The STRENGTH and WATCH boxes underneath name the specific traits behind it.See this part in detail →
- 3Weigh each pattern by its evidenceOpen the pattern cards and pair Confidence with the "seen across N trades" line. Discard anything built on a handful of trades.See this part in detail →
- 4Find where your bars sitLook at the Holding Period Distribution and note the share under 7 days against the share over 1 year. That single comparison tells you whether you trade or invest.See this part in detail →
- 5Look for the common thread in your best tradesRead the three entries in Best Decisions together — sector, holding period, entry price relative to exit — rather than reading each in isolation.See this part in detail →
- 6Take your worst two back to the journalOpen the Trading Journal on the dates of those two trades and read what you wrote when you bought. That comparison is the entire value of keeping notes.See this part in detail →
Every part of the page
In the order you meet them on screen, each with a close-up of the real thing. The numbers match the dots on the figure above.
Behaviour Score
A letter grade for your trading habits — not for your profits. It reflects how confidently the app has recognised patterns in the way you trade.
How — Read the two boxes below the grade: STRENGTH is the first trait scored low or medium risk, WATCH is the first high-risk trait.
- The grade is the average confidence score of your detected traits: 75 and above gives A, 60–74 gives B+, 45–59 gives B, anything above 0 gives C, and no traits gives "—".
- Traits come from your saved behaviour-tag records, built from your trading history — not from your profit or loss.
- Because it measures recognition confidence, a high grade means "your habits are clear", not "your habits are good".
Realised Trade Summary
Your scorecard on trades you have actually closed. A "round-trip" is one complete buy-then-sell cycle; shares you are still holding are not counted here.
How — Use these three counts as the sample size for everything else on the page — a pattern built on 3 trades means far less than one built on 40.
- Winning and Losing Trades are split by NET profit or loss, that is after broker commission, SEBON fee, DP charge and capital-gains tax.
- Return% on each trade is computed as gross P&L ÷ buy cost, so it lines up exactly with the buy and sell prices shown further down.
- It stays empty until you sell something.
Detected Behaviour Patterns
Habits recognised in the way you trade — for example holding losers too long, or trading very frequently. Each card is one behaviour tag stored against your account.
How — Always read Confidence together with Evidence. A trait at 90% confidence built on 2 trades is a coincidence, not a habit.
- The category is Trading Style, Risk Profile or Holding Behaviour, with its own icon.
- Confidence runs 0–100%. Level: 70% and above shows as high, 40–69% as medium, below 40% as low.
- Evidence is the number of your trades that back the pattern up.
- The list reads "No behaviour patterns detected yet." until behaviour tags have been generated for your account.
Holding Period Distribution
How long you typically keep a stock. Bars weighted toward "< 7d" mean you trade; bars weighted toward "> 1yr" mean you invest.
How — Compare your own shape against the tax line below — this is the one habit on the page with a direct rupee consequence.
- It counts BOTH closed round-trips (buy date → sell date) and positions you still hold (first buy date → today).
- Buckets are under 7 days, 7–30 days, 1–3 months, 3–12 months and over 1 year; the % is that bucket's share of all counted holdings.
- Worth knowing: crossing 365 days drops your capital-gains tax from 10% to 7.5%.
Best Decisions
Your three most profitable completed trades, ranked by the money you actually made.
How — Look for what they have in common — the sector, the holding period, or the reason you bought. That is the habit worth repeating.
- Ranked by Net P/L: profit after broker commission, SEBON fee, DP charge and capital-gains tax.
- The % shown is gross profit ÷ what the shares cost you, so it matches the buy and sell prices printed beside it.
- Only closed round-trips appear here; a holding that is currently up but unsold is not included.
Worst Decisions
Your two biggest losses on completed trades — the ones worth reviewing so the same mistake is not repeated.
How — Open the Trading Journal for the date of each of these and read what you wrote at the time. That comparison is the whole value of keeping a journal.
- Ranked by Net P/L, that is the loss after all fees have been paid.
- Because of fees, a trade sold at exactly your buy price still lands here as a small loss.
- It reads "No losing trades — well done." when you have none.
Reading the numbers
- The letter grade is the average confidence score across your detected traits: 75 and above gives A, 60 to 74 gives B+, 45 to 59 gives B, anything above 0 gives C, and no traits at all shows a dash.
- STRENGTH names the first trait scored low or medium risk. WATCH names the first high-risk trait. When there is none, they read "Balanced trading" and "No high-risk trait".
- A pattern's Level follows its confidence: 70 percent and above is high, 40 to 69 is medium, below 40 is low. The card border takes its colour from that level.
- Categories are Trading Style, Risk Profile and Holding Behaviour, each with its own icon.
- The Holding Period Distribution counts both closed round trips, measured from buy date to sell date, and positions you still hold, measured from your first buy to today. The percentage is that bucket's share of everything counted.
- Buckets are under 7 days, 7 to 30 days, 1 to 3 months, 3 to 12 months and over 1 year.
- Best and Worst Decisions are ranked by net P/L — after broker commission, SEBON fee, DP charge and capital-gains tax. The percentage printed beside each is gross P&L ÷ buy cost, so it matches the buy and sell prices shown on the same card.
- Winning and Losing Trades in the summary are split by net result, so a trade that broke exactly even before fees counts as a loss.
What it does not do
- This is inference from the trades you entered, not advice and not a verdict. If your Trade Ledger is incomplete, has the wrong dates, or is missing the trades you would rather not think about, every pattern on this page is wrong in the same direction.
- The pattern cards come from stored behaviour-tag records. Until tags have been generated for your account the list reads "No behaviour patterns detected yet", even when you have plenty of closed trades.
- The grade measures recognition confidence. A high grade means your habits are clear, not that your habits are good — a consistently poor trader can score an A.
- Only closed round trips are counted. A large position you are still holding at a loss never appears in Worst Decisions, which is exactly the trade most worth reviewing.
- The histogram mixes closed trades with open positions, so a long-held position that you never sell keeps pushing weight into the over-1-year bucket.
- Best Decisions ranks by rupees, not by percentage, so one large position can crowd out several better-judged smaller trades.
Questions people ask
The summary and the histogram come straight from your trades, but the pattern cards come from behaviour tags generated for your account separately. Until those exist the list stays empty while the rest of the page works.
No. The grade reflects how confidently habits could be recognised in your trading, which usually just means there are not many trades yet. It has no relationship to your profit.
No. Commission, the SEBON fee and the DP charge are paid on both the buy and the sell, so an unchanged price still leaves you slightly behind.
It reads the portfolio selected in the sidebar. Trades recorded in a different portfolio are counted there, not here.