# Activity

> Read the Activity feed: what the Trades, Errors, System, and All tabs show, how to search and export events, and how to see why a trade failed.

*Source: https://tradelabs.org/docs/using-the-app/activity*

The **Activity** page is the record of what the app actually did. Every signal that lands, every trade that routes to a broker, and every broker or source state change shows up here. It answers the question "is my bot really working, and if not, why?"

Open it from **Activity** in the left rail.

![The Activity page in the app](/docs-assets/app-activity.png)
*The Activity page groups a whole signal-to-trade flow into one card*

## The header

The top of the page shows a live status word and the page title **Event stream**:

- **Live** means an event landed in the last 30 seconds.
- **Recent** means events have come in, but not just now.
- **Quiet** means nothing has arrived yet.

Next to it you see the time since the last action, or **Waiting for the first event** if the feed is empty.

Below that are three running counts pulled from your trade flows:

- **filled**: flows where every broker filled.
- **failed**: flows that failed or only partly filled.
- **in flight**: flows still working or sitting in a broker queue.

## The four tabs

The feed is split into four views. Each shows a count badge so you can see where the action is.

| Tab | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Trades** | Signal-to-trade flows. The thing you actually care about. |
| **Errors** | Failed trades and broker or system breakages. |
| **System** | Broker health, source connections, and lifecycle events. |
| **All** | Everything in one chronological stream. |

**Trades** is the default view.

## Reading a trade card

Each card is one signal from start to finish, not one line per step. A card shows:

- A status word: **Filled**, **Queued**, **Partial**, **Failed**, **Rejected**, **No action**, **Filtered**, **Skipped**, or **In flight**.
- The trade preview, like `BUY BNZI`, and a kind badge (**Stock**, **Option**, **Spread**, **Crypto**, **Memecoin**, **RSA**, **Prediction**, **Congress**, or **Trade**).
- How long ago it started, the signal source, and the strategy it ran through.
- The brokers it routed to, each with a colored dot and a fill price when it filled.

Click **Show timeline** on a card to expand every underlying event with millisecond offsets. Click **Hide timeline** to collapse it again.

> **Note**
>
> **Queued** is not the same as filled. It means a broker accepted the order into its own queue but has not executed it yet. The card resolves to **Filled** or **Failed** once the broker reports back.

### Many brokers on one trade

When a trade fans out to more than two brokers (an RSA bundle, for example), the card shows a ladder instead of a row of chips. The header reads something like **3/6 filled**, and each row lists a broker with its status and timing. If a broker split across sub-accounts, click **Show accounts** on its row to expand the per-account results.

## The Errors tab

**Errors** leads with what broke and why, not the full trade story. Each failed card shows the broker that failed and the plain-language reason on its own line. If a trade only partly filled, you also see a **Filled on** list so you know which legs are still in the market. Click **Show full timeline** for the complete event trail.

If nothing has gone wrong recently you see **No errors**.

## The System tab

**System** is where broker health changes, source connections, and app lifecycle pings land. It is normal to see a broker move between the four health states here. A broker sitting **Idle** at night is expected, not a problem. See [Brokers and health](/docs/using-the-app/#brokers--health) for what each state means.

## Search, export, and clear

- **Search**: type in the box (placeholder **Search ticker, broker, message…**) to filter the current tab by ticker, broker, strategy name, source, or message text.
- **Export CSV**: downloads every event currently in the feed as a CSV file. Disabled when the feed is empty.
- **Clear**: empties the feed. A **Clear the activity feed?** dialog asks you to confirm first. New events keep streaming in after you clear.

> **Note**
>
> **Clear** removes everything currently shown. It does not stop trading or change any strategy. It only wipes the on-screen history.

## Focusing on one strategy

If you open Activity from a strategy's **Activity** button, the header shows a **Scoped to** chip with that strategy's name and a **Back to strategies** link. Click the **x** on the chip to clear the filter and see the full feed again.

## When the feed is empty

Before any trades run, the Trades tab shows **No trades yet**. As the note explains, when a signal lands and routes to a broker, the full flow appears here as a single card. Run a strategy or fire a [manual trade](/docs/using-the-app/#manual-trading) to see events stream in.