Your Portfolio on PERPTools: Managing Your Performance Effectively

How to track what works, shut down what doesn't, and understand where your edge lives on PERPTools – the complete trading system for DEX traders.

Most traders obsess over entries. They'll spend hours analyzing the perfect setup, the ideal confluence and the precise moment to execute. Then they close the position, feel good or bad about it, and move on to the next trade. The point is that they never see the whole picture.

Traders have no idea of what strategies they are applying and which direction they actually set feet on since they never measure.

Without measurement, trading becomes a series of isolated moments with no common threads. You don't know if your win rate is improving or deteriorating. You can't identify which timeframes work best for you. You have no idea if your edge is growing or slowly bleeding out through poor execution and emotional exits.

This is what Portfolio on PERPTools exists to fix. Here's how to use it.

What the Portfolio Page Actually Does

When traders first open Portfolio, they may see a quite interesting UI of metrics and charts which, as many would say, is your most resourceful assistant for managing your concurrent activities’ effectiveness. It's not a dashboard to admire your gains or hide from your losses. It's an accountability system that shows you, with uncomfortable clarity, whether your trading approach works.

To access this feature, traders need to navigate to app.perptools.ai/portfolio or click "Portfolio" in the main navigation bar.

This page aggregates six critical dimensions of your trading activity:

1. Overview — Your account equity and current balance
2. Positions — What you're holding right now, with live PnL
3. Orders — Pending limit, stop, and TP/SL orders
4. Assets — Your collateral breakdown and balance history
5. Performance — ROI, PnL, and volume metrics over time
6. Fee Tier — Your trading volume and associated fee rates

Each section answers a specific question. Together, they create a complete picture of how you're trading and what's actually working.

Overview: Your Current Financial State

When you click Portfolio, the Overview tab opens by default. It shows three primary metrics:

1. Total Value
Your complete account equity in USDC. This includes:

• Available balance (funds not in use)
• Margin locked in open positions
• Unrealized PnL from active trades

This number is what matters most as it is your actual account value right now. You’ll need to connect your wallet first to view the balance and you can also deposit/withdraw in this feature:

• Deposit: Transfer USDC from your connected wallet into your trading account
• Withdraw: Move USDC from your trading account back to your wallet

Withdrawals are limited by two factors: You must have available balance (funds not locked in margin); you cannot withdraw if it would push your margin ratio above safe limits. If "Withdraw" is grayed out, you have open positions consuming all your margin. Close trades first, then withdraw.

2. Assets Chart
Assets Chart is a visualization of your account equity over time. If the line trends up, you're growing capital. If it trends down, something in your process is broken.

The chart defaults to 7 days but can be expanded to 30 or 90 days or custom ranges using the dropdown in the top-right.

3. Performance

This area acts as your personal "trading report card," summarizing your effectiveness over a specific timeframe (default set to 7D).

• ROI (Return on Investment): This shows your percentage gain or loss relative to the capital you have in your account. It is typically calculated using your total profit divided by your account equity and new deposits.
• PnL (Profit and Loss): The absolute dollar value (in USDC) you have made or lost over the past week. It includes both Realized PnL (from closed trades) and Unrealized PnL (from trades still open).
• Volume (USDC): This is the total value of all trades you have executed in the last 7 days. High volume relative to your account size indicates frequent trading or the use of high leverage.
• Daily PnL Chart: A bar graph showing your net profit or loss for each individual day, helping you identify which specific days were most successful.
• Cumulative PnL Chart: A line graph that tracks your total profit or loss over time. Unlike the daily chart, this shows the "equity curve" of your account, demonstrating whether your capital is growing or shrinking overall.

Positions: What You're Holding Right Now

Click "Positions" in the left sidebar.

In the PERPTools interface, the Positions section is your primary hub for monitoring and managing active, past, and force-closed trades. It is accessible both at the bottom of the main trading view and within the dedicated Portfolio page.

• Current Positions: This tab provides a real-time overview of any active trades you currently have open.
• Liquidation Price: Where the system force-closes your position

Orders: What's Pending

The Orders section allows you to monitor the complete lifecycle of your trading requests, from initial placement to final execution or cancellation.

The interface categorizes orders into several status-based tabs for easier management:

Active and Pending Orders

• All: A consolidated view showing every order regardless of its current state.
• Pending: Orders that have been submitted to the Orderly Network but have not yet reached their trigger price or been filled by a counterparty. These are "working" orders that you can still modify or cancel.
• TP/SL (Take Profit / Stop Loss): A specialized view for your risk management orders. These remain "untriggered" until the market reaches your specified price, at which point they become active market or limit orders to close your position.

Historical and Inactive Orders

• Filled: Orders that have been successfully and fully executed at the exchange. Once an order is in this state, it can no longer be modified or canceled.
• Canceled: Orders that were removed from the book before being filled. This can happen if you manually cancel them, if they reach a set expiration date, or if they are "Fill or Kill" orders that couldn't be immediately satisfied.
• Rejected: Requests that the system could not process. Common reasons for rejection include having insufficient collateral (USDC) to cover the margin requirements or attempting to place an order that violates exchange rules.

Assets: Your Collateral Breakdown

Click "Assets" to view your balance composition.

PERPTools uses USDC-only margin, so this section is straightforward:

• Current Balance: Total USDC in your account
• Available to Trade: Funds not locked in margin
• Margin in Use: Collateral backing open positions

Assets Chart (Right Side):

A visual timeline of your total account value over the selected period (7D, 30D, custom). This is identical to the Overview chart but with more granular zoom controls.

Fee Tier: Understanding Your Costs

This section shows your current fee structure based on rolling 30-day trading volume. Fees are updated daily at 2:15 UTC. There are four key metrics displayed at the top:

• Your tier: Current tier number (1-7)
• 30D trading volume (USDC): Total notional value traded in the last 30 days
• Taker fee rate: What you pay for market orders that execute immediately
• Maker fee rate: What you pay (or earn) for limit orders that rest in the orderbook

Why this matters:

At low volumes, you might pay 0.05% taker fees. At high volumes, that drops to 0.03% or lower, plus you may receive maker rebates (negative fees for providing liquidity).

Over $1M in monthly volume, a 0.02% fee difference saves $200.

If you're close to the next tier threshold, consider whether slightly increasing volume (through valid trades, not churning) is worth the fee savings.

API Keys: For Bots and Integrations

In the PERPTools Portfolio interface, the API Keys section serves as a management hub for users who wish to interact with the Orderly Network programmatically rather than through the manual user interface. This section lets you:

• Generate API keys for bot trading or external integrations
• Set permissions (read-only vs. trading access)
• View your Account ID and UID for authenticated API calls

When to use this:

• You're running automated strategies via the AI Agent system
• You're integrating PERPTools into a custom dashboard or risk management tool
• You're building proprietary trading systems that need PERPTools execution

Security note:

Treat API keys like passwords. Never share them. If compromised, revoke immediately and generate new ones.

Your Portfolio Is Your Trading Journal

Most traders are told to keep a trading journal. They start with good intentions, manually logging entries, exits, emotions, market conditions. Within two weeks, they stop because it's tedious.

The Portfolio page is an automated journal. Every trade is logged. Every PnL movement is recorded. Every equity curve shift is charted. You don't have to remember to update it. You just have to look at it and be honest about what it shows.The data doesn't care about your intentions, your effort, or your conviction. It only cares about results.

Your portfolio page shows results. Everything else is noise.