Calendar View
The CleaRank Trade Journal calendar shows your results day by day, so you can see which sessions made money and which gave it back. It has three views: Month for the day-by-day pattern, Year for the twelve-month shape of your results, and Day for a single session debrief.
Switching between Month, Year, and Day
The calendar header holds, from left to right: the title, a Previous button and a Next button, and three pills labeled Month, Year, and Day. Select a pill to switch view. The title always tells you where you are: “August 2026” in Month view, “2026” in Year view, and “Tuesday, August 4, 2026” in Day view.
The two arrows step by whatever unit the current view uses. In Month view they move you a month at a time, in Year view a year at a time, and in Day view a single day at a time. The same pair of buttons therefore covers everything from checking yesterday to jumping back a full year, depending on which pill is selected.
A useful loop: start in Year view to find the month worth studying, select that month tile to drop into Month view, then use Day view to work through the sessions that stand out.
Month view
Each day in the grid shows the net result of the trades recorded on it. A month of trading becomes a pattern you can read at a glance: consecutive winning days, a losing streak that lines up with a news week, or a habit of giving back on Friday what you made Monday through Thursday.
Navigate between months to compare periods. Because the calendar is per journal, you can flip between your simulator journal and an imported broker journal and see how each month went in each one.
Expanding a day
- Open the Calendar tab. In the Trade Journal, select the journal you want to review, then click Calendar.
- Pick a day. Expand any day in the grid to see the trades behind its number: symbols, sides, and individual P&L.
- Review or edit. Open a trade straight from the day detail. Manually logged and imported trades can be edited; mirrored simulator trades open read-only with room for review annotations.
Make the calendar part of a weekly review: expand your best and worst day of the week and write one note on each. Two focused reviews a week compound faster than skimming every trade.
Year view
Year view answers a different question. Not “how did this month go” but “what shape was the year”. A summary line under the header shows the year total and how many months had trades, for example “+$2,281.10 – 2 active months”. When the year is empty it reads “No trades in 2026”.
The grid becomes twelve tiles, JAN through DEC. A month with trades shows its net profit and loss in compact form along with its trade count, for example “+$2.3k” and “13 trades”. A month with no trades shows a dash. The day-of-week header row is hidden in this view, since the tiles are months rather than days.
Select any month tile to drop straight into Month view for that month.
Tile shading has four intensity steps, scaled to the largest absolute month in that year, and takes the profit color or the loss color depending on the sign. Shade is therefore relative, not absolute: a deep tile in a quiet year can be a smaller number than a pale tile in a busy year. Read the figure, not just the color.
What to look for in a year
The year grid is the fastest way to spot seasonality and, more usefully, streaks. Two or three consecutive red months is a size-and-process conversation, not a strategy conversation. Something about how much you were risking, or how closely you were following your plan, changed and then stayed changed.
Watch for the opposite pattern too: a single month that dwarfs every other tile. If your year rests on one period, check whether the rest of the year was net flat. A month you cannot repeat is not an edge yet.
Day view
Day view zooms all the way in. The title is the full date, for example “Friday, July 17, 2026”. A day with no trades shows “No trades on this day” and “Use the arrows to browse other days.”
A day with trades shows a large DAY P&L figure, colored for profit or loss, then three stats: TRADES, WINS, and LOSSES. Below them sits a “View 1 trade” or “View N trades” button that jumps to the Trades tab filtered to that date.
Using Day view for a debrief
Day view earns its keep on the day that went badly. WINS and LOSSES sitting next to the day’s profit tell you which kind of bad day it was: one oversized loss, or a slow bleed of many small ones. Those two problems have different fixes. The first is a sizing and stop-placement problem. The second is usually a matter of continuing to trade after the setup stopped being there.
A day where the trade count sits far above your normal is usually the day a rule was broken, and you can confirm that in the journal’s Discipline analytics. For the same trades rolled up rather than read day by day, the Journal Dashboard and Journal Analytics cover the same period from a different angle.
Why daily review matters
Per-trade stats can hide day-level problems. A strategy with a decent win rate can still lose money if a single bad day regularly wipes out a week of gains, which is exactly the pattern a calendar makes obvious. Day-level discipline is also what prop-firm evaluations test with daily-loss limits, so reviewing your days here pairs naturally with the Prop Firm Auditor and your trading rules.
Frequently asked questions
How do I switch between Month, Year, and Day view?
Use the three pills in the calendar header, labeled Month, Year, and Day. The title updates to match: a month and year in Month view, just the year in Year view, and the full date in Day view.
What do the Previous and Next arrows do in each view?
They step by whatever unit the current view uses. In Month view the arrows move you one month at a time, in Year view one year, and in Day view one day.
Can I jump from the year grid straight to one month?
Yes. Select any month tile in Year view and the calendar switches to Month view for that month.
Why is one month tile darker than another with a bigger number?
Tile shading has four intensity steps scaled to the largest absolute month in that year, so it is relative rather than absolute. A deep tile in a quiet year can be a smaller number than a pale tile in a busy year. Read the figure, not just the shade.
Can I edit trades directly from the calendar?
Yes. Expand a day and open any trade from the day detail. Manual and imported trades are editable there; simulator mirrors stay read-only but accept review annotations.
Does the calendar include imported broker trades?
Yes. Imported trades appear on the calendar like any others. If your import used the correct broker timezone offset, each trade lands on the right day.
Why does a day show a different total than I remember?
The day shows net P&L after fees for the trades recorded on it. Check that fees were captured, and for imported history confirm the broker timezone offset, since a wrong offset can shift trades across midnight.
Is there a calendar per journal or one for everything?
Per journal. Switch journals with the selector at the top of the page and the calendar shows that journal’s trades only.
Try it yourself
Open your calendar, check the year, then find your best and worst day this month.
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CleaRank tools are for education and analysis. Nothing in this guide is financial advice.