Day Change
A single session of your portfolio, with quantities held constant across both days so a trade you made today cannot distort the comparison.
What this page is
Day Change answers a narrow question: what did today do to what I already own. Four tiles give the rupee move, the value now against yesterday, and the stock in your portfolio that rose and fell hardest. Below them is a card built for sharing — yesterday's total, today's total, the difference, and each holding's prices side by side.
The comparison is deliberately clean. Your share quantities are held at the same number on both days, so buying or selling this morning changes your portfolio without polluting the measurement of the day itself.
It is the only portfolio page designed to leave the app. The card exports as an image, with a "Not investment advice" line in the footer because it is meant to be passed on.
Why it helps you
- This is where you find out whether today was signal or noise. A rupee figure means nothing alone; the percentage under it puts the move against the size of the account, which is the honest scale.
- The card is sorted by rupee impact, not by percentage. That distinction matters: the stock with the biggest percentage fall often is not the one that actually cost you money.
- A run of small red days on a portfolio you thought was neutral usually means you are more concentrated than you believed. Compare the top rows of the card with the sector split on Overview.
- Nothing here is deducted for fees or tax, because nothing was traded to produce it. Do not read a green day as money earned.
- The main use of this page for a long-term holder is calibration: seeing how ordinary a two percent day is makes it easier to ignore the next one.
- A day that moves the portfolio far more than the market usually points at concentration rather than skill. Check whether one holding produced most of the number.
- If you keep a record for family or an adviser, the exported card is a dated snapshot you can file without exposing your account.
- Beyond that, treat this page as the least important number you own. Nothing about a single session should change a multi-year position.
When to use it, and where to find it
- Just after the close, when today's prices are final and the card is worth saving.
- On a violent market day, to find out what it actually did to you rather than what the headlines say it did to the market.
- When someone asks how your portfolio is doing and you want to answer with a picture rather than a screenshot of your holdings.
- On a Monday, remembering that NEPSE trades Monday to Friday, so "yesterday" is the previous Friday.
Try it — a short walkthrough
- 1Read the rupee move and the percentage togetherStart with Day P/L. The percentage underneath is the same move scaled to the size of your portfolio, which is what makes it comparable to any other day.See this part in detail →
- 2Cross-check today's totalToday Value should match Current Value on the Overview page. If the two disagree, one of them is looking at a stale price.See this part in detail →
- 3Do not stop at the top moverTop Gainer and Top Loser are chosen by percentage. Read them, then look past them — a large holding moving slightly usually matters more.See this part in detail →
- 4Find what actually drove the dayWork down the card's per-stock rows, which are ordered by rupee impact on your portfolio. The first two or three rows normally explain the whole number.See this part in detail →
- 5Export it if you want to keep itSave Image downloads the card as a PNG. On a phone, Share opens the native share sheet instead; on a desktop it simply downloads the same file.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.
Day P/L
How many rupees your whole portfolio gained or lost today. This is paper money — it only becomes real if you sell.
How — Read the % underneath as the honest scale of the move: Rs 20,000 on a Rs 2 lakh portfolio is a very different day from the same amount on Rs 20 lakh.
- Day P/L = today's total value − yesterday's total value, using the same share quantities on both days.
- The % is that change divided by yesterday's total value.
- No fees or taxes are involved — nothing was bought or sold to produce this number.
Today Value
What all your holdings are worth right now, with yesterday's figure underneath for comparison.
How — This tile matches "Current Value" on the Overview page, so you can cross-check the two.
- Today Value = Σ (quantity held × live market price).
- For each stock, today's price is its live market price; yesterday's price is that price minus the day's move as reported by NEPSE. If a stock has no live tick, the last completed daily close is used instead.
- L = lakh (Rs 100,000), Cr = crore (Rs 10,000,000).
Top Gainer
The stock in YOUR portfolio that rose the most today by percentage — not the best performer on the whole market.
How — Compare it with the per-stock rows in the card below to see whether the biggest % mover actually moved much money.
- Picked as the holding with the highest positive % price change today.
- It shows "—" and reads "none up" when nothing you own went up today.
Top Loser
The stock in your portfolio that fell the most today, by percentage.
How — Do not judge the day by this tile alone — a big % fall on a small holding may cost you less money than a small fall on a large one.
- Picked as the holding with the lowest (most negative) % price change today.
- The card below is ordered by rupee impact, which is the better place to see what actually hurt.
The shareable card
A picture of your one-day move: yesterday's total → today's total, the change, and each stock's yesterday price, today price and % move.
How — Read the per-stock table to find which holdings drove the day. Rows are ordered by the biggest rupee impact on your portfolio.
- "As of" is the date of the newest price used — the latest live tick, or the last completed trading day when the market is shut.
- Only the top 12 holdings are drawn, to keep the image readable; a "+N more holdings" line appears when you hold more.
- The footer carries "Not investment advice", because the card is meant to be shared.
Reading the numbers
- Day P/L is today's total value minus yesterday's total value, using the same share quantities on both days. The percentage is that change divided by yesterday's total value.
- Today Value is Σ (quantity held × live market price). Yesterday's price for each stock is that price minus the day's move as reported by NEPSE; a stock with no live tick falls back to its last completed daily close.
- No fee or tax enters any figure on this page — no trade was made to produce it, so nothing is deducted.
- Only the top 12 holdings are drawn into the exported card so it stays readable; a "+N more holdings" line appears when you hold more.
- "As of" on the card is the date of the newest price used: the latest live tick, or the last completed trading day once the market is shut.
- L is lakh (Rs 100,000) and Cr is crore (Rs 10,000,000).
What it does not do
- One day says nothing about whether you are making money. Your entry prices are not part of this calculation at all — a portfolio deep in loss can post a fine day.
- The page reads whatever the market last gave it. Between sessions, "today" is the last completed trading day, so the same card on Saturday and Sunday is identical.
- A stock that did not trade at all shows no move, which is accurate rather than helpful — thin stocks can sit flat for days and then reprice in one jump.
- Both export buttons are disabled while you hold nothing, since there is no card to produce.
- Like every page here, it is built from the trades you entered. A holding you forgot to record simply is not in the day.
Questions people ask
Quantities are held constant across both days on purpose, so today's buying does not distort the comparison. The purchase changes what you own; it is not treated as a change in value.
Top Loser is picked by percentage. A 10% fall on a small holding is a smaller loss than a 1% fall on a large one. The per-stock rows in the card are ordered by rupee impact, which is the better place to look.
No. Desktop browsers generally cannot share files natively, so the button falls back to downloading the same PNG for you to attach yourself.