Net P&L is your bottom-line profit or loss after costs like commissions and fees. It is the real result, not the rosy figure before costs.
📊Metric insight
+$742Net P&LAfter $58 in commissions and spread
Gross P&L flatters you; net P&L is what actually reaches the account. Judge every strategy on the after-cost number, not the headline.
✕Common mistake
Reading gross, trading net
A strategy that looks profitable on gross numbers can quietly bleed out once commissions, spread and swap are subtracted — especially at high trade frequency.
✓Key takeaways
✓Net P&L subtracts every cost — the only honest scoreboard.