AI Trade Explainer

When you open a finished trade, TTMT does more than show you the numbers — it can tell you the whole story. The trade detail screen carries three transparency surfaces that answer "what actually happened here, and why?" in plain language: the AI Trade Explainer, which writes a short narrative and a scorecard; the Trade Journey, an event-by-event timeline from signal to close; and the trade chart, a candlestick view with your entry, stop, and targets drawn straight onto the price. It is not just a log of what filled — it is the engine explaining its own decisions back to you.

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Open any closed trade from the Trade Log, then click Explain Trade to read its story. The Journey timeline and chart are already there when the trade opens — no button needed.

Where to find these — opening a trade

Click any row in the Trade Log, Position Log, or Live View to open the trade detail screen. Three of its panels make up the transparency surface:

Surface	What it shows	Needs a click?
AI Trade Explainer	A plain-English story plus a graded scorecard of the trade	Yes — press Explain Trade
Trade Journey	Every lifecycle event in order, from signal to close	No — always shown
Trade chart	Candles around the trade with your entry zone, stop, and targets overlaid	No — shown when chart data exists

The AI Trade Explainer — your trade in plain English

The Explainer turns everything that happened on a trade into a short, readable story — not a dump of status codes. You trigger it with the Explain Trade button, which carries a counter of how many explanations you have left today (for example, Explain Trade (4 left)). It only works on finished trades — ones that have closed or failed. If a trade is still live, you will see "Only completed or failed trades can be explained"; wait for it to close, then ask again.

The story is written by AI that knows how TTMT's own engine works — your sanitizer, entry zones and layers, take-profit distribution, breakeven and trailing, and your safety systems — so it explains the why behind each decision, not just the what. It also reads your settings for that trade, so the story is specific to how you had things configured. Each explanation is a tight 300–600 words in plain trading language, with no jargon codes.

Every explanation is built from the same set of labelled sections:

Section	What it tells you
Trade Story	A short narrative of the trade start to finish, ending with the bottom line — Final Result: +$48.20 or Final Result: -$12.60.
Key Decisions	The moments that shaped the outcome — which layers filled, where targets shifted, when the stop moved to breakeven.
Non-Standard Moments	Anything unusual worth your attention, such as a stop that filled a little past its level (slippage). Only appears when there is something to flag.
Your Settings	The settings that were in force for this trade — lot size, entry strategy, SL/TP defaults — so you can see what drove the behaviour.
Issues	Real problems, if any — a rejected order, a missing stop, a validation block. Only appears when something actually went wrong.
Final Scorecard	A short verdict grading how the trade went and pointing at anything you might tune.

Example. You open a closed XAUUSD BUY that ended slightly red. The Trade Story explains that the market gave back ground after entry, your deeper layers filled, and a follow-up close from the channel ended it at Final Result: -$9.40. Key Decisions notes that once the third layer filled, TTMT pulled your earlier layers' targets in to secure profit faster. Your Settings shows you were running 0.10 lots with a 4-layer entry. The Final Scorecard tells you the trade was managed correctly and the loss was a normal cost of a reversal — nothing to fix.

How many explanations you get — the daily counter

Generating a story costs real money, so each explanation is saved the first time you create it. Re-opening the same trade later shows the saved story instantly and for free — it does not cost you anything from your daily count. Only the first generation of each trade counts.

How it works:

1. The counter is your daily budget — the number on the button is how many new stories you can generate today. By default you get five per day.
2. Revisits are free — opening a trade you have already explained shows the saved story and does not touch your count.
3. Regenerate when something changed — if you want a fresh take (for example, after a trade's final outcome was confirmed), you can regenerate the story. A regeneration writes a new story and spends one from your daily count, just like the first time.

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Your saved story keeps the wording it had when you generated it. If TTMT later improves the explanations, your existing stories stay as-is until you regenerate them — so an old story is still the story you read before, not a surprise rewrite.

When the Explainer flags slippage

One of the most useful things the Explainer does is tell you when a close was slippage, not a fault. Your stop-loss and breakeven levels are trigger prices, not guaranteed fills — when price hits the trigger, your broker fills at the next available price. On a fast move or a wide-spread broker, that fill can land a little past the level. That is normal broker execution, not a TTMT error, and the Explainer says so plainly in Non-Standard Moments rather than letting the trade read like the stop "didn't work".

Example — same stop, two brokers

A single signal was broadcast to two of your accounts. Both moved the stop to breakeven and the platform confirmed it at 4292.09. On the live account, the broker filled that stop at 4291.76 — about 3 pips past it, a tiny loss. On the demo account, the identical stop filled cleanly at 4292.09 for a small profit. Same stop, same instant, two brokers: demo gives idealised fills, the live account slipped. The Explainer flags this as slippage so you don't mistake it for a broken breakeven.

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If slippage on a slippage-prone broker keeps nudging your breakeven closes slightly red, widen your breakeven buffer so the stop sits a few extra pips in profit before it can be triggered. See Breakeven Management.

The Trade Journey — every event in order

The Trade Journey is a vertical timeline of everything that happened to the trade, in the order it happened. Where the Explainer tells the story, the Journey shows the raw sequence — and you can click any step to jump to the order, position, or signal behind it.

Step by step, a typical journey reads:

1. Signal received — the channel message TTMT read to build the trade.
2. Orders placed — the grid of entry orders across your layers; how many depends on your size and your broker's lot rules, up to 36 in total.
3. Layers fill — which orders actually triggered as price moved.
4. Management — every protective move while the trade was open: breakeven, trailing stop, and target shifting as deeper layers filled.
5. TP / SL hit — the targets and stops that closed positions.
6. Closed — the final event that ended the trade.

The trade chart — your levels drawn on the candles

The third surface is a candlestick chart of the price around your trade, with your entry zone, stop-loss, take-profit levels, and any modifications drawn directly onto it. It covers a tight window around the trade's key moments, so you can see at a glance whether price ran straight to target, wicked into your stop, or chopped around your entry. Candle times display in your local timezone.

The chart behaves differently depending on whether the trade is still open or already closed.

On an open trade, the chart is live. It draws from one-minute candles, and where TTMT has live feed data it keeps a forming bar updating in real time so you watch price move against your levels as it happens. When an open trade doesn't yet have live candles, TTMT polls roughly every 45 seconds to fill the picture in, so the chart catches up shortly after each entry even on a quieter feed.

On a closed trade, the chart is the retained snapshot captured for the trade — it loads instantly every time you re-open the trade, even months later, long after the broker has rotated those candles out of its own history.

INFO

A few charts carry a data-quality warning. Trades that closed before this feature existed, or where only coarser legacy hourly (H1) data was available, may show a structure-only or "suspect legacy data" note — the levels are drawn, but the candles are approximate. A handful show a "no chart context available" placeholder where price data couldn't be fetched. In every case the trade and its Journey are unaffected; only the candle picture is limited.

Related pages

• Trade Log — the trade list these three surfaces drill into, and what each end reason means.
• Position Log — the individual positions inside a trade, each with its own lifecycle.
• Breakeven Management — why a stop can fill a little past its level (slippage) and how the buffer absorbs it.
• TP Redistribution — the target-shifting the Journey shows as your deeper layers fill.
• Annotations — add your own notes, ratings, and reflections to a completed trade.
• Performance — the account-wide analytics that sit above any single trade.