The "Positions" tab: what you hold and why you entered

6 min read · Blocks by market with their own columns, the result in R, risk to the stops, "why I entered" — the signal and the checklist.

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Short version for experts: tables, lists and screenshots only.

Words in this lesson (16)

Gap — A jump in price: today trading opened noticeably higher or lower than it closed yesterday. Closed at 100 yesterday, opened at 108 today — an 8% gap up.

Long — Buying in the hope that the price will rise. Buy lower, sell higher.

Short — Selling in the hope that the price will fall: you sell something borrowed, then buy it back cheaper. You make money when the price drops.

Stop — A price chosen in advance at which the trade is closed at a loss, so the loss doesn't grow bigger.

Arbitrage — Making money on the price difference of the same thing in two places: buy where it's cheaper, sell where it's more expensive.

Opportunity (arbitrage pair) — A pair of trades in arbitrage: where we buy and where we sell.

Funding — A regular payment between those who are long and those who are short on a perpetual futures contract. Who pays depends on whether the futures price is above or below spot.

Spot — Ordinary buying and selling of the coin or stock itself: you buy it — it's yours.

Leverage — Money borrowed from the exchange. With 10x leverage, your $100 opens a $1,000 position: both profit and loss are ten times bigger.

Liquidation — The exchange force-closes a position when the loss has eaten all the collateral. The collateral is lost.

Screener — A filtering program: it scans hundreds of stocks or coins and shows only those that match the given criteria.

Fee — What you pay the exchange for every trade — both on entry and on exit.

Market order — An order to "buy or sell right now at the best available price". It fills immediately.

Position — An open trade: what you have bought or sold and haven't closed yet.

Dividend — A part of the company's profit that it pays out to shareholders.

Record date — The date on which you need to own the stock to receive the dividend. The next day the stock gets cheaper by roughly the size of the dividend.

Each market in its own block

On the "Positions" tab, open trades are grouped by market: Cryptocurrency, Russian stocks, US stocks and, at the bottom, Arbitrage (opportunities, spot rebalancing, strategies). The "Blocks on the tab" checkboxes at the top right turn on only what you need: if you trade Russian stocks and crypto, the rest stays out of the way. The choice is remembered; blocks can be reordered, resized and moved into a separate window.

Markets have different risks, so the columns differ too:

Block	Special columns	Why look at them
Cryptocurrency	leverage, "To liq.", funding	how far the price can move against you before liquidation; funding "+" — you get paid, "−" — you pay, and how soon it's charged
Russian stocks	session, "Dividends"	a short through the record date — the dividend is charged to you; a long through the record date — a gap down at the open
US stocks	session, "Earnings"	earnings cause a gap; holding a position through earnings is a separate decision

Common to all: entry → now, P&L, R, the stop and target, how long you've been in the trade.

R — the result in stops

R shows how many stops you've earned: (now − entry) / (entry − stop). +2 R — a profit twice the risk, −1 R — the stop. In R, trades are comparable at any amount and in any market, which is why the result at the top of the tab is added up in R.

MAMAY takes the stop in this order: the position's stop-loss → the checklist plan → the signal's stop (then there's an asterisk next to it). The "At risk to the stops" tile — how many R you'll lose from current prices if all the stops are hit. MAMAY counts positions without a stop and without a checklist and puts them in the "Attention" tile.

Why I entered

Click a row to open the breakdown:

Screener signal — the last signal for this instrument and side within a day before the entry: which screener, what kind of signal, how long before the entry and what it saw. The "signal card" button opens its verdict and chart.
Entry checklist — the last "Entering" in the checklist (Alt+C) within 2 hours before the entry: the percentage, how many rules were met and which weren't. Unmet mandatory ones are in red.
Plan and risk — the stop, the size of 1R, the current R and the amount at risk.
The "to chart", "stop to breakeven" (with fees; if the price hasn't moved beyond the fees yet, MAMAY honestly refuses) and "close at market" buttons. In REAL these buttons ask for a second click.

No signal means you entered on your own decision. No checklist — a yellow "no checklist" mark. After a couple of weeks these marks show the main thing: which trades followed the system and which followed emotions.

The breakdown is built for positions opened since 5.10.5: MAMAY records the entry time starting with that version. For Bybit and Alor, the entry time is the moment MAMAY first saw the position.

↗ Open "Positions" in MAMAY ▶ Entry checklist ↗ Signal performance in MAMAY

The "Positions" tab: what you hold and why you entered

Each market in its own block

R — the result in stops

Why I entered

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