My trade is not appearing in the Dashboard

Updated: May 6, 20252 min read

In OptionsApp, scheduled trades are only displayed in the Dashboard under certain conditions. This display is dynamic and depends on whether the trades can actually be executed. Below are the most common reasons why a trade might not appear in the Dashboard:

1. Entry time is in the past

If the current day is selected as the Trading Day in the Dashboard and your trades' entry times are already in the past, they will not be displayed. They are considered "missed".

This is especially the case if you configured a strategy or trade after the planned entry time, or if you started OptionsApp after the time of the first trade. Trades whose entry time has already passed will no longer be listed in the Dashboard in these cases.

2. Wrong Trading Day selected

If you haven't selected the correct Trading Day in the Dashboard, for example today instead of tomorrow or vice versa, trades may not be displayed. Select the appropriate day in the Dashboard to see the scheduled trades for that day.

3. Strategies not activated

If a strategy has not been activated in the Configuration section, no scheduled trade from that strategy will be displayed in the Dashboard. Make sure the strategy that the trade comes from is set to active.

4. Trading hours exceeded

OptionsApp automatically takes into account the regular trading hours of the respective Underlying. For SPX, for example, that's 9:30 to 16:00 (US Eastern Time). If you've configured a trade with an entry time outside this window, it will not appear in the Dashboard.

An example: You've set US Eastern Time as your timezone and set up an SPX trade with an entry time of 17:00. Since SPX is no longer tradeable at that time, this trade will not be displayed.

5. Trading days don't match the Dashboard day

If you've specified certain trading days in your strategy (for example, only Tuesday and Thursday) and selected a different day as the Trading Day in the Dashboard (for example, Wednesday), the trade will also not be displayed. The display in the Dashboard only occurs when the Trading Day and the trading day defined in the strategy match.