Rate a trade

The seven star ratings on a trade, what each one asks, how the overall rating is worked out, and why every trade starts at 3.0 whether you rated it or not.

Same on every platform Updated 26 July 2026

What this does

Ratings are your own scoring of how well you traded, separate from whether the trade made money. A trade can be a loss and still be a five-star trade, and a lucky win can be a two.

Before you start

Every category starts at 3 stars. There is no unrated state, so a trade you have never opened reports an overall rating of 3.0. Do not read 3.0 as an assessment, yours or VEXA’s. It means untouched.

That also means a rating only tells you something once you have moved it. Rating a handful of trades honestly is worth more than rating everything.

The seven categories

Category	The question it asks
Setup Quality	How well did the setup match your criteria?
Entry Timing	How optimal was your entry timing?
Position Sizing	Was your position size appropriate?
Risk Management	Did you manage risk effectively?
Execution Discipline	Did you stick to your plan?
Exit Timing	How optimal was your exit timing?
Emotional Control	How well did you manage your emotions?

Each one takes 1 to 5 stars and has its own notes box.

Overall Rating is the plain average of the seven, to one decimal place. Nothing is weighted, so dropping Emotional Control to 1 moves the overall figure by about 0.3.

Steps

Open the trade from Trades or from a Journal day card.
Click the Ratings tab in the left panel.
Click the star you want on each category.
Add notes under any category. Notes save on their own about half a second after you stop typing.
The Overall Rating at the top updates as you go.

Open the trade from Metrics or from a Journal day.
Open the Ratings section.
Tap the star you want on each of the seven categories.
Add per-category notes where they help.

Open the trade from Trades in the sidebar.
Open the Ratings section.
Tap the star you want on each category, and add notes where they help.

Open the trade from Metrics or from a Journal day.
Tap the Ratings tab.
Overall Rating sits at the top. Under Rate Your Trade, tap the star you want on each category.
Use the notes field on a category to record why.

Open the trade from Trades in the sidebar.
Tap the Ratings tab.
Tap the star you want on each category and add notes where they help.

What you should see

Stars fill as you tap them and the Overall Rating recalculates on screen. Reopen the trade later and your stars and notes are still there.

Your rating also shows up in the Stats panel of Trade Replay on the web app, next to the trade’s P&L and tags.

If it doesn’t work

Every trade says 3.0. That is the default. Nothing is broken and nothing has been rated.

Your notes vanished. Notes save shortly after you stop typing. Closing the page in the same second as your last keystroke can lose the tail of it. Pause before you navigate away.

You cannot find the tab. Ratings live inside Trade Analysis, not on the trades table. Open a trade first.

Trade Analysis: a tour of the trade page What every part of the trade page does on each device: the header, the six tabs, the chart panel and the OPEN badge. Tag a trade Label a trade with the setup you traded, the mistake you made and how you felt, then find those trades again from the filters and the Metrics widgets. Assign trades to a playbook Put a trade in a playbook from the trade page, tick which of its criteria you actually met, and understand the automatic Favorites playbook.

Still stuck? Email support@vexatrade.ai.