Portfolio Heat

The "Portfolio Heat" indicator offers a visual representation of potential risk exposure for a portfolio across up to eight different symbols. It dynamically calculates three risk metrics based on current price, the number of shares owned, your designated stop loss, and total account size.

• Open Dollar Risk – the total dollar amount you will lose if your stop loss is hit.
  
• Open % of Portfolio Risk – the risk as a percentage of your total account size.
  
• Starting Capital Risk – the dollar amount risked based on the difference between the entry price and stop price.
  

These metrics adjust in real-time, allowing you to monitor and manage risk more effectively.

Open portfolio heat refers to how much you would lose if all your currently held stock positions hit their stop-losses, whether those stop-losses are below what you paid for them - referred to as your “cost basis” - at your cost basis (breakeven) or above your cost basis (in the money). Admittedly, it’s a pretty bad day when all your stops are hit at once, but as traders we need to prepare for the worst. To visualize what “open heat” looks like on a single stock position, please note the chart below:

In the example above you can see that if you were to purchase 100 shares of this stock at a cost-basis of $18/share, and your stop-loss is placed at $15, if the current price of the stock is at $20 and the stock price drops to hit your stop-loss, it would result in a $500 total drawdown in your portfolio. Keep in mind this is just one stock position. Hypothetically, if you were even holding two stocks that had the above open heat, with a $10,000 account size, you could experience a 10% drawdown quite fast if the market corrects.

The “Portfolio Heat” indicator is fully customizable allowing traders to select the number of positions in the portfolio, colors and a detailed or a summary view of risk.

Note if entering a short position, you will enter the number of shares owned as a negative number.

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Added ability for up to 10 stocks.

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Added ability to show entry and stop levels on portfolio holdings.

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Update includes two new features.

1. Position size for each position / total exposure of overall portfolio
   
2. Ability to add a starting portfolio value to compare performance vs risk
   

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Update to show exposure in summary view

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Update hides the input settings from the status bar to avoid overlapping onto price action.

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Option added for a compact view to be used on mobile. Same information displayed as the summary view, just smaller.

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update to allow data to be read by other indicators

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Option to change the data text background color.