Charts & Heatmaps Overview
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Charts Overview
Here is our charts overview.
Cumulative Returns
- Description: Tracks the overall growth of your portfolio over time.
- Why it’s important: It helps visualise the long-term performance of your investments.
- How to interpret: Upward trends show growth, while downward movements reflect periods of losses.

Profit & Losses (P&L)
- Description: Displays the profit or loss for trades in both ₹ and percentage terms.
- Why it’s important: Helps monitor the financial outcomes of your trading activities.
- How to interpret: Positive values indicate profits, and negative values show losses.

EOY (End of Year) Returns
- Description: Summarises the portfolio’s returns at the end of each year.
- Why it’s important: Useful for tracking long-term progress and comparing different years.
- How to interpret: A higher percentage signals a profitable year, while a negative figure indicates losses.

Distribution of Monthly Returns
- Description: This chart visualises how returns are distributed across months, highlighting the variability in performance each month.
- Why it’s important: Allows you to detect patterns or consistent trends across the months.
- How to interpret: A wider spread indicates more variability in monthly performance.

Monthly Returns (%)
- Description: Shows the percentage return for each month, highlighting which months were more successful.
- Why it’s important: Helps track monthly performance in a detailed way, giving a quick view of high or low-performing months.
- How to interpret: Higher bars indicate better-performing months, and lower bars suggest weaker months.

Daily Returns
- Description: Displays daily performance, providing insight into short-term portfolio fluctuations.
- Why it’s important: Crucial for day traders or those monitoring short-term performance.
- How to interpret: Positive values mean gains, and negative values indicate losses on a daily basis.

Underwater Drawdown Plot
- Description: Tracks how much your portfolio has declined from its peak value at any given time.
- Why it’s important: Highlights the worst-case loss scenarios, helping you evaluate risk.
- How to interpret: Steep drawdowns indicate large losses, while shallow drawdowns suggest minor pullbacks.

Heatmaps Overview
Here is our heatmaps overview.
Gross ROI (Return on Investment)
- Description: A heatmap representing the overall return on investment across different assets or time periods.
- Why it’s important: Quickly identifies the most and least profitable investments.
- How to interpret: Darker colors represent higher ROI, while lighter colors indicate lower or negative returns.

Trading Volume
- Description: Visualises the total amount of trades executed over a certain period.
- Why it’s important: High volume often correlates with higher liquidity and interest in a market.
- How to interpret: Darker areas indicate periods of higher trading volume.

Total Trades
- Description: Summarises the number of trades completed over time.
- Why it’s important: Useful for analysing the frequency of trades to understand trading activity.
- How to interpret: Higher-intensity colors represent periods with a high number of trades.
