Most traders rely on one metric to evaluate their performance. The net P&L.
It’s simple, visible, and easy to track. But it only tells part of the story. It shows the outcome, not the process behind it.
Two traders can have the same P&L and arrive there in completely different ways. One might be trading with consistency and structure, while the other is relying on unstable decision-making.
The TPT ScoreCard is designed to bridge the gap between results and behavior, giving traders a structured way to evaluate how their trading is evolving over time.
What Is the TPT ScoreCard
The TPT ScoreCard is a trading performance dashboard that tracks your trading activity and behavior over time.
It brings together key data points across your trading, allowing you to evaluate how your decisions, risk, and execution translate into results.
Rather than focusing on isolated trades or sessions, it provides a continuous view of your performance, helping you assess whether your approach is becoming more consistent and efficient.
What Does the ScoreCard Show
The ScoreCard tracks a wide range of metrics that reflect both results and behavior:
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Trades summary
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Daily and monthly stats
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Win/loss breakdown
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P&L distribution and cumulative P&L
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Expectancy
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Median P&l by day of week
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Completed trades
These metrics can be viewed in USD or ticks, which helps standardize performance across different products and position sizes.
Importantly, these metrics are not meant to be interpreted in isolation.
For example:
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A high win rate does not necessarily indicate profitability
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A strong P&L period may be driven by a small number of outsized trades
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A flat or negative P&L can still occur during periods of improving execution
The ScoreCard is structured to show how these metrics interact, giving a more complete picture of trading behavior.
Where Your Trading Data Comes Together
The ScoreCard updates within seconds after trades are closed, giving you an up-to-date view of your performance.
You can filter data by account, product, date range, and custom tags, making it easier to isolate specific conditions or strategies.
All your TPT trades from September 1, 2025 onward are stored in one place, allowing you to review your history without relying on multiple tools or fragmented data sources. You can also export your trading data for further analysis or record-keeping outside the platform.
This can become particularly useful when analyzing your strategy to identify which setups or behaviors are contributing to your performance.
How the ScoreCard Helps Traders
At a practical level, the ScoreCard is less about reporting results and more about diagnosing behavior.
It helps you:
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See what is helping or hurting your performance
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Understand the patterns behind your trading
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Track how your behavior evolves over time
Instead of asking “Did I make money?”, the focus shifts toward: “How am I trading? Is my process improving?”
Performance Beyond P&L
One of the core ideas behind the ScoreCard is that P&L can act as a lagging indicator.
In practice, improvement does not always show immediately in results. A trader might be:
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Managing risk more consistently
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Improving execution
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Reducing impulsive decisions
While still seeing flat or negative P&L.
This is where metrics like expectancy become useful. At a high level, expectancy reflects the average outcome of a trade based on how wins, losses, and risk are managed.
It’s possible to see negative P&L while expectancy is trending upward, suggesting that the underlying process may be improving, even if it has not yet translated into realized gains.
Conversely, strong P&L alongside deteriorating expectancy may indicate that recent results are being supported by favorable conditions rather than consistent execution.
The ScoreCard helps highlight these differences, giving you a clearer view of how your trading behavior is evolving beneath the surface.
Reviewing Trading Days
Breaking down performance at a more granular level allows traders to identify habits that may be affecting consistency over time.
Looking at aggregated metrics alone can hide important behavioral patterns.
By reviewing individual trading days, you can identify tendencies such as:
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Holding losing trades longer than winners
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Increasing size during less favorable conditions
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Inconsistent execution across sessions
While a single red day may appear random, reviewing multiple days through the ScoreCard daily breakdown can reveal patterns in behavior.
These patterns often go unnoticed when focusing only on final results, but become clearer when performance is analyzed at the trade or session level.
Expectancy: A Key Metric
Expectancy measures what is likely to happen per trade over time, based on how wins, losses, and risk are managed.
It is one of the most important metrics because it reflects the efficiency of your trading process.
A trader can:
Win frequently, yet lose overall.
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Win less often, but remain profitable.
The difference lies in how gains and losses are distributed.
Expectancy captures this balance, making it a more reliable indicator than win rate or P&L alone.
Tracking expectancy over time allows you to evaluate whether your trading approach is becoming more sustainable.
Why Trends Matter
A single data point only reflects a moment in time and can often be misleading.
For example:
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A high win rate over a short period may not be sustainable
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A strong day may result from a single high-risk trade
Trends, however, provide context. They can help answer questions like:
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“Is consistency improving?”
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“Is risk becoming more controlled?”
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“Is execution stabilizing or becoming more erratic?”
Over time, consistent improvement in behavior matters more than short-term results.
The ScoreCard emphasizes these trends to help traders focus on long-term development rather than isolated outcomes.
Learn More About the TPT ScoreCard
The TPT ScoreCard is not designed to predict outcomes or guarantee results.
Its purpose is to provide a clearer view of how your trading behavior evolves over time.
It is available to all TPT traders at no additional cost and can be accessed through the Trader dashboard.
For a deeper look at how the ScoreCard works:
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Watch the full walkthrough on YouTube
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Explore the complete Q&A in the Knowledge Base
We’re excited for you to start using the ScoreCard and see how it supports you in becoming a better trader.