So i had been lately managing a Google sheet wherein i was putting down all my strategy trades and making analysis of them. It was getting quite bigger and too much work as so many formulas to enter and change and maintain.
I decided to make a trading dashboard where i just upload my csv downloaded google sheet, map the date, profit and loss, charges and lots column and it does the work for me of showing my trading outcomes on various timeframes, metrics of profitability and comparison between strategies etc. This turned out to be the trading dashboard chromefirefox extension as below:
Let me know what you guys think. It is a chrome extension. Not published extension as publishing in chrome store needs money and i have no as such plan of formally monetising this, may be a donation i would accept at max. Those who need will have to get the raw files and add it as a extension in chrome using local extension Packing (super easy 2 step thing).
So to sum up, how many of you would use it if its free?
Edit: Its free and listed on firefox extension store here:
AFAIK, it is a one-time fee of 5 USD / INR 500 to register as a developer of a Chrome extension.
Seems like a very small price to pay for the ease of publishing/hosting/distributing a Chrome extension (or any more extensions in future that you may create).
Alternately, you can publish the extension for Firefox for free.
IIRC, there is minimal additional work required to ensure most common extensions work across these 2 browsers.
Maybe can do that to start out, share links (eg. on this topic-thread), get feedback from interested folks who feel comfortable trying it out, and if there are plenty of potential users requesting for Chrome, can then choose to spend INR 500 and publish on the Chrome web-store as well.
Since, you also mention that you are not interested in monetizing it (and may rely on donations at the most). Yet another option would be to publish the extension source on Gitlab/Github, and allow users to build extensions for their browsers, as well as host pre-built extension files as releases on your Gitlab/Github project. Can add an option to sponsor/donate your project.
Personally, a key issue with such a tool would be privacy of the data.
Hence, the 3rd approach above is something folks interested in privacy would most likely prefer.
Or even something that can be guaranteed (a user can verify) to work completely offline.
BTW, does the tool support exporting the data entered, in some open format? (eg. CSV, Markdown?)
Regarding privacy, it is a completely local stored project, no internet connection in it. The data is uploaded locally and stored locally on the browser so that retains memory over browser and pc restarts.
Regarding Github, yes i can do that for those who are more tech savvy. However, a lot of the retail trading audience would be fearing doing anything that seemingly looks complex, even as little as just visiting the github page. Nevertheless, I can make the code open for trustworthiness. That is a godo point.
Regarding firefox, i will definitely check that out. It makes sense to me. For chrome developer licence, I dont know if i will make another extension as this was a personal use project.
It supports export and backup as json files. You can export your data in a json file for backup or sharing purposes. And same backup can be imported to get going on to a new device.
I added a new feature to my analysis ie. Trade Perfomance over time in the backdrop of Market/instrument performance in the same time period. I always wondered why Tradingview’s strategy tester never provided this feature!
This is very useful to know in what kind of a market phase does a strategy work or not. Like, if its sideways market the reason for drawdown? That question is easy to answer through this visualisation.
Note: Profit values immaterial. For sharing purposes only.
What kind of other ananlysis others thing would be useful for understanding? I would like to know any other insightful idea that you always wanted to have a way to see! I am using the code to get the analysis i always missed.
I added the extension to Firefox extension store. Thanks @cvs for giving the idea of Firefox route.
It is there for anyone to test out.
Note: Google sheets connect wont work on android. It is Firefox Android limitations hindering it.
Currently google sheet will warn that the extension hasn’t been verified by Google. This is because 0Auth review is pending from Google site. Will take few weeks.
