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The After: what actually happened once you sold

You exit a position and immediately start guessing. Did it keep running? Did it dump the second you were out? The guess is always wrong, always flattering or always brutal — and it is the single biggest trigger for the revenge trade that follows. PaperTrench now measures it instead.

RoundP&LExit gradeAfter (1h)
$TRENCH +2.41 ◎ EXCELLENT −38% after exitdodged · 214 samples
$WIF +0.88 ◎ SOLD EARLY +126% after exitran without you · 198 samples
$REKT −1.30 ◎ ROUND-TRIPPED −71% after exitdodged · 187 samples
$QUIET +0.12 ◎ FLAT not enough data9 samples · feed went quiet

Simulated rounds. The fourth row is the important one — see below.

Everyone in this market has an imaginary ledger of what would have happened. It is the most expensive book you will ever keep, because it is written entirely from vibes, and it is what convinces you to jump back into a coin you already exited badly.

The After closes it. Every round you finish, PaperTrench keeps watching that coin for the following hour and records what genuinely happened next.

What it records

Observed extremes and how many samples they came from. That is deliberately unglamorous, and the two things it does not do are the whole point:

The rule that makes it worth reading

A "+340% after you sold" built from four ticks is not information — it is a mood. Every After figure carries the sample count it was built from, so you can tell the difference between a measured move and a rumour.

Reading the column

The rounds table gained an After (1h) column, and it is colour-coded against your interests rather than against the price:

Green — you dodged it

A −30%+ dump after you sold reads green. You were out. That was a good exit, and the P&L column alone would never have told you.

Red — it ran without you

A big move up after your exit reads red. You sold into strength that kept going, and that is a sizing-and-patience lesson, not a win.

Note what this does to a "winning" trade. A round that closed +0.88 ◎ looks fine on its own. Next to +126% after exit, it is a round you got out of far too early — and next to −38% after exit, the same P&L is a genuinely well-timed exit.

P&L tells you what you made. The After tells you whether you deserved it.

It aggregates, too

One round is an anecdote. The discipline panel rolls the whole record up: your median further-upside (how much you routinely leave behind) and your dumps dodged across every closed round.

Those two numbers describe a trading personality with no room for argument. Consistently large further-upside means you sell winners early. Consistently high dumps-dodged means your exits are doing real work. Either way it is measured from your own record, not from how the session felt.

Also in v2.1.0

Guardrails — training wheels you can actually use

Opt-in, enforced at buy time, and modelled on the three rules every surviving trader eventually adopts: a tilt breaker (N straight losses triggers a cooldown), a max position size as a percentage of your live book, and a daily loss limit.

The right time to practise those rules is while the money is fake and breaking them is free.

Your data, one click

CSV export for the journal and rounds — RFC-4180-safe, After columns included. It is your record; you should be able to take it somewhere else.

An onboarding checklist that knows when to leave

New accounts get a path on the Overview: first buy → thesis → first close → first After → review → the 50-round road to the graduation bar. It is dismissible, and it disappears on its own once you have done it all.

And the community screenshot, fixed same day

On market-cap charts, fill markers floated above the candles (raw resolver-implied cap versus the chart's own cap scale) and could park past the final bar on 1-second charts. Shapes now share the average line's close-corrected level math — supply cancels, the chart's scale wins — and clamp to the newest bar.

Patch notes v2.1.0 August 5, 2026

The After

Every closed round now watches its coin for the following hour and records what ACTUALLY happened after your exit — observed extremes, sample counts, no interpolation. The rounds table gains an "After (1h)" column (a −30%+ dump after you sold reads green: you dodged it; a big run without you reads red), and the discipline panel aggregates your median further-upside and dumps-dodged across the record. The most expensive guesswork in this market — and the #1 revenge-FOMO trigger — replaced with measured truth.

Guardrails (training wheels)

Opt-in, enforced at buy time: a tilt breaker (N straight losses → cooldown), a max position size (% of your live book), and a daily loss limit. The three rules every surviving trader eventually adopts, practicable while the money is fake.

Fill bubbles land on the candles (community screenshot, fixed same day)

On mcap charts the fill markers floated above the candles (raw resolver-implied cap vs the chart's own cap scale) and could park past the final bar (clock skew on 1s charts). Shapes now share the avg line close-corrected level math — supply cancels, the chart scale wins — and clamp to the newest bar. The mcap-headline sub-line also says "Price …" now instead of the ambiguous "MC · …".

CSV export

For the journal and rounds — your data, one click, RFC-4180-safe, After columns included.

Onboarding checklist

On Overview for newcomers: first buy → thesis → first close → first After → review → the 50-round road to the graduation bar. Dismissible; disappears on its own once you have done it all.

Sharper prices on fresh launches

Ambiguous unknown-unit ticks are now refused with a distinct reason instead of risking a double-converted price; GMGN markers snap to the bar grid; host-chart callbacks are hardened so a PaperTrench bug can never break the site's own chart; backups say honestly that screen recordings stay on this machine; replay scrubbing is memoized; coach timestamps match the calendar day you see.

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