Read the time analysis

The Time tab breaks your results down by when you traded: by session, by day of the week, by hour and by month. Use it to find the hours that pay you and the ones that cost you.

The Time Analysis tab helps you understand when you trade best and when you should probably step away. It breaks down your results across sessions, days, hours, and months so you can align your trading schedule with your actual performance data.

Session Performance#

Markets behave differently depending on which financial centers are active. Oathra tracks four major trading sessions and shows your performance in each one. A trade is assigned to a session based on when it was opened.

Each session card displays your total P&L, win rate, and the number of trades taken during that window. Sessions overlap in some places. London and New York overlap between 12:00 and 16:00 UTC, which is typically the highest-volume period. If a trade is opened during an overlap, it gets counted in both sessions.

Pay attention to sessions where your win rate or P&L drops noticeably. If you trade well during London but consistently lose during the New York afternoon, the data is telling you something about your focus, your strategy fit, or the market conditions during those hours.

Session Insights#

Below the session cards, Oathra highlights your best and worst performing sessions with a direct comparison. This makes it easy to see at a glance where your edge is strongest and where it breaks down.

If your best session is London with a 58% win rate and your worst is Sydney with 39%, the gap tells you that your strategy or execution is better suited to London conditions. That might be because of volatility, because of spreads, or simply because you are more alert at that time of day.

You can use this to make practical changes. If one session is consistently negative over 50+ trades, consider reducing your size during that window or skipping it entirely. Not every hour of the market is meant for every trader. The goal is to trade when the data shows you perform best, not to force trades around the clock.

P&L by Day of Week#

This chart uses a butterfly layout to show your gross profit on the right side and gross loss on the left side for each day of the week, Monday through Sunday. The result is an instant visual comparison of how much you win vs how much you lose on any given day.

There are two modes you can toggle between:

Entry Day#

Groups trades by the day they were opened. This tells you when your entries tend to be best. If you open trades on Fridays and they consistently lose more than they win, you may be forcing setups at the end of the week.

Close Day#

Groups trades by the day they were closed. This is more useful for swing traders holding positions across multiple days. It shows whether trades closed on certain days tend to be winners or losers. For example, if trades closed on Mondays have a heavy loss skew, it could indicate weekend gap risk catching you out.

For day traders who open and close within the same day, both modes will show similar patterns. Swing traders will see the biggest difference between the two views.

P&L by Hour#

A bar chart showing your net P&L for each hour of the day from 00 through 23 UTC. Each bar represents one hour, colored green for profit and red for loss. This is one of the most actionable charts in the entire platform.

Session overlap bands are shown as subtle background highlights on the chart. The London-New York overlap (12:00 to 16:00 UTC) is usually the highest-volume zone. Many traders perform best during overlaps because of increased liquidity and cleaner price action.

Look for clusters of green hours and clusters of red hours. If hours 07 through 11 are consistently green but 14 through 17 are consistently red, you have a clear signal about when to trade and when to stop. Even narrowing your active trading by two or three hours can significantly improve your results if those hours happen to be your worst performers.

All times are in UTC. If you trade from a different timezone, adjust accordingly. For example, if you are in London during British Summer Time, UTC+1, your 9am local is 08:00 UTC.

Day x Hour Heatmap#

The heatmap is a grid where the rows are days of the week (the five trading days) and the columns are hours (00 through 23 UTC). Each cell is colored by intensity based on your P&L for that specific day-hour combination. Darker green means more profit, darker red means more loss, and neutral gray means little or no activity.

This is the most granular time view available. Instead of knowing that Tuesdays are good, you can see that Tuesday between 08:00 and 11:00 is where your edge actually lives. Instead of knowing that afternoons are bad, you can pinpoint that Thursday 14:00 to 16:00 is where most of your losses happen.

To read the heatmap effectively, look for patterns rather than individual cells. A single red cell might be a one-off bad trade. But a red stripe across Thursday afternoon, repeated across multiple weeks, is a pattern worth acting on. Similarly, a cluster of green cells at the same time across multiple days suggests your strategy and those conditions are a strong match.

Monthly P&L#

A bar chart showing your net P&L for each month of the last year. Green bars are profitable months, red bars are losing months. The best and worst months are highlighted so you can spot them at a glance.

Monthly P&L is useful for seeing the bigger picture. Daily and weekly swings can be noisy, but monthly results smooth that out and show whether you are trending in the right direction. Look for:

• Are your profitable months getting bigger over time?
• Are your losing months getting smaller?
• Is there a seasonal pattern (worse in summer, better in fall)?
• Did a single bad month wipe out several good months?

If one losing month regularly erases three or four winning months, the problem is probably position sizing or a lack of drawdown rules rather than strategy. Consistent traders aim for their worst month to be no larger than their average winning month.

Daily P&L Calendar#

A calendar grid showing each day of the month with a color-coded P&L value. Green days were profitable, red days were not, and empty days had no trading activity. You can navigate between months and years to review your history.

This works the same as the calendar on your dashboard, but scoped to a single account. If you have multiple accounts, this lets you see the daily breakdown for each one separately.

Below the calendar, Oathra shows your win rate by trading days (the percentage of days you traded that ended net positive). This is different from trade win rate because a single day might have five winning trades and one large loser that makes the day net negative. Tracking day-level win rate helps you understand whether your daily routine is working. Aim for 55% or higher as a baseline.