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Dashboard and Filters

The dashboard only earns trust when the scope is right. Use this to read it without fooling yourself.

The dashboard is easy to misuse if you forget the scope at the top.

Ploutos will happily show you a clean-looking panel for a tiny filtered slice. That does not mean the slice deserves to be trusted.

Start with the scope bar

Before you read any widget, check the bar at the top of Journal.

That tells you:

  • which dates are in play
  • whether you are looking at all trades or a filtered subset
  • whether custom dates are active

If the scope is wrong, the rest of the dashboard can still look convincing while telling the wrong story.

What the dashboard is actually good for

Use it for questions like:

  • was this period genuinely strong, or just one good day inside a messy week?
  • which session, direction, or strategy is doing the damage?
  • am I looking at my real book or a narrow slice I forgot was filtered?

Use Trades once the question becomes:

  • what exactly happened here?
  • which trade or trade group is behind this pattern?

The panels that do the most work

Equity curve

This is for shape, not diagnosis.

Use it to see whether the period was:

  • steady
  • choppy
  • one drawdown followed by recovery
  • one big outlier hiding a weaker book underneath

Scope rail

This is the bridge from a pattern to the actual trades behind it.

It is there so you can move from "that looks interesting" to "show me the trades" without losing the thread.

Calendar

The calendar is good at showing clustering:

  • one week doing most of the work
  • several weak days in a row
  • a month that looked strong until you noticed it was really one or two sessions

Session, strategy, market, or direction panels

These adapt because traders do not all need the same lens.

If you trade only NQ intraday, direction and session usually matter more than market. If you trade a broader swing book, market-level breakdown becomes much more interesting.

That is why a panel that feels useful for one trader may be mostly decorative for another.

Good filter behavior

Good:

  • narrow one thing at a time
  • compare one setup or tag cluster against the full book
  • isolate one provider account or market before drawing a conclusion

Bad:

  • stacking five filters, then forgetting what is still left
  • finding a tiny sample that confirms what you hoped to see

If the scope is narrow, treat the result as a clue, not a verdict.

A review pattern that works

  1. Start broad in Dashboard.
  2. Narrow the date range if needed.
  3. Add one meaningful filter.
  4. Notice one thing that looks off or strong.
  5. Move into Trades and inspect the underlying trades.

That usually produces better review than living in one screen the whole time.

Common mistakes

  • forgetting a date filter is still active
  • reading one widget in isolation
  • treating a tiny filtered sample like a stable edge
  • staying on the dashboard and never opening the trades behind the signal

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