The calendar heatmap

Read the P&L calendar, understand the three display modes and the cell colours, mark a day you showed up, and drill from a day into its trades.

Same on every platform Updated 26 July 2026

What this does

The calendar shows one cell per day, coloured by that day’s net P&L. It is the fastest way to see the rhythm of a month: which days carried it, which days gave it back, and which days you sat out.

Before you start

The calendar files a trade under the day it closed, not the day you opened it. A position opened Monday and closed Thursday colours Thursday. The Journal files the same trade under Monday, which is why the two screens can disagree about a day.
The colour scale is relative to the range you are looking at. A $400 day can be dark green in a quiet month and pale in a month with a $6,000 day in it.

The three display modes on the web

Your range	What you get
One month	the enlarged grid: seven columns, each cell showing the date, the day’s P&L and the trade count
Two to twelve months	a grid of small month cards, each with its own month total. Click one to enlarge it
More than twelve months	one year at a time, twelve small month cards, with chevrons to step between years

In the enlarged view, chevrons step through months inside your range and a back control returns you to the grid of months.

The apps show one month at a time with chevrons. On Android, year chevrons appear only when your data actually spans more than one calendar year, so you cannot page into an empty year.

Reading the cells

Cell	Meaning
Green, in four strengths	a profitable day, darker the larger it was relative to the range
Red, in four strengths	a losing day, same scale
Blue	a market holiday, named on the cell
White and translucent	a day you marked as showed up
Plain	no trades and no mark

Market holidays are worked out from the markets your own trades touch, so a trader who only trades US equities sees US market holidays. Holiday cells cannot be clicked and carry no showed-up control.

Showed-up days

A showed-up day is a day you were at the desk and chose not to trade. VEXA treats that as a discipline signal rather than an absence, and it feeds your Discipline score.

Days with no trades that are not in the future and are not holidays carry a small checkbox. Tick it and the day is marked. The cell turns white and translucent, and the day appears in the Journal as a discipline day.

Steps

Open Metrics in the sidebar.
Scroll to P&L Calendar Heatmap.
Click a month card to enlarge that month, if your range covers several.
Click a day with trades to open those trades.
To mark a quiet day, tick the checkbox in the corner of the cell.

Tap the bar chart icon, fourth along the row at the bottom of the screen.
Scroll to the calendar.
Use the chevrons to change month, or the jump control to return to this month.
Tap a day to open its trading metrics and trades.
To mark a quiet day, tap the checkbox on that cell.

Open Metrics in the sidebar.
Scroll to Trading Calendar.
Use the chevrons to change month.
Tap a day to open the full-screen day view with its trades.
To mark a quiet day, tap the checkbox on that cell.

Tap the bar chart icon, fourth along the row at the bottom of the screen.
Scroll to Trading Calendar.
Use the month chevrons, or This Month to jump back.
Tap a day to open Daily Trading Metrics.
To mark a quiet day, tap the checkbox on that cell.

Open Metrics in the sidebar.
Scroll to Trading Calendar.
Use the month chevrons, or This Month to jump back.
Tap a day to open the two-pane day view: day statistics on the left, that day’s trades on the right.
To mark a quiet day, tap the checkbox on that cell.

What you should see

A month grid where the colours match your memory of it, and a confirmation when you mark a showed-up day. Clicking a day takes you to that day’s trades, filtered to that date and to trades that closed on it.

If it doesn’t work

A trade is on the wrong day. The calendar uses the exit date. The Journal uses the entry date. Both are deliberate.
There is no checkbox on an empty day. Future days, market holidays and days that already have trades do not get one.
The colours all look the same. Every day in range is close in size, so the relative scale has little to work with. Narrowing the range spreads it out.
A day is blue and will not open. It is a market holiday. There is nothing behind it.

Widget reference: charts The equity curve, daily P&L, volume, drawdown, time of day and the win and loss split, what each one plots and how to read the axes. Drill down from a chart to your trades Click a bar, a day or a symbol to see the trades behind it, and understand why that click does not change the filters you had set. How VEXA calculates every metric The formula behind every number on the Metrics screen, including profit factor, drawdown, volume, average trades per day and what counts as a green day.

Still stuck? Email support@vexatrade.ai.