New in Notion: Conditional Coloring for Traders
Notion has just rolled out a powerful feature: Conditional Coloring. For traders, this isn’t just cosmetic — it’s a complete game-changer for how you visualize and interact with your trading journal.
Instead of digging through filters or calculations, your trades now tell their story visually. With the right rules, wins, losses, risks, and patterns pop off the screen instantly.
Practical Use Cases for Traders
1. Logs Table — Win/Loss/BE
Highlight risk levels: Mark trades risking more than 1% in red, and conservative trades in green.
Visualize outcomes: Instantly spot wins vs. losses with simple color rules.
2. Portfolio — Unrealized P&L
Profits vs. losses: Turn profitable positions green and losing positions red. No need for extra filtering.
Direction at a glance: Color buys in green and sells in red across tables and calendar views.
Daily performance: In calendar view, cards automatically flip green or red based on your P&L for the day.
Trend spotting: Color-code losing weeks in yellow or orange to review performance patterns.
Why this matters: Your journal literally shows you what’s happening. For traders juggling multiple positions, this is clarity on autopilot.
3. Daily Overview — Calendar View
Get a bird’s-eye view of your trading sessions. With color-coded entries, you’ll know immediately whether a day closed green or red.
Added to the Free Trading Journal
Some of these setups are already included in the free trading journal template. If you’re already using it, you’ve got a head start.
Step-by-Step: Automating Conditional Coloring in Notion
There’s one limitation: Conditional Coloring currently doesn’t work directly with formula properties. But don’t worry — automation makes it seamless.
Here’s how to set it up:
Add a checkbox property — call it something like Win. This will control your colors.
Set up an automation:
Trigger: When any property is edited.
Action: Update pages in your trades database.
Conditions:
If P&L > 0 → check Win.
If P&L < 0 → uncheck Win.
Apply Conditional Coloring:
Go to Database → Conditional Coloring → select Win.
Assign green for checked (profits) and red for unchecked (losses).
Result: Your Win property updates automatically with every trade, and your journal stays perfectly color-coded without extra clicks.
Final Thoughts
Conditional Coloring may look like a small feature, but for traders, it’s a big deal. It makes your Notion workspace more visual, more intuitive, and more actionable. Instead of hunting through data, your journal now gives you instant feedback.
Color-coded clarity, automated updates, and effortless tracking — exactly what every trader needs to stay sharp.
Step-by-Step: Automating Conditional Coloring in Notion
There’s one limitation: Conditional Coloring currently doesn’t work directly with formula properties. But don’t worry — automation makes it seamless.
Here’s how to set it up:
Add a checkbox property — call it something like Win. This will control your colors.
Set up an automation:
Trigger: When any property is edited.
Action: Update pages in your trades database.
Conditions:
If P&L > 0 → check Win.
If P&L < 0 → uncheck Win.
Apply Conditional Coloring:
Go to Database → Conditional Coloring → select Win.
Assign green for checked (profits) and red for unchecked (losses).
Result: Your Win property updates automatically with every trade, and your journal stays perfectly color-coded without extra clicks.
Final Thoughts
Conditional Coloring may look like a small feature, but for traders, it’s a big deal. It makes your Notion workspace more visual, more intuitive, and more actionable. Instead of hunting through data, your journal now gives you instant feedback.
Color-coded clarity, automated updates, and effortless tracking — exactly what every trader needs to stay sharp.
Step-by-Step: Automating Conditional Coloring in Notion
There’s one limitation: Conditional Coloring currently doesn’t work directly with formula properties. But don’t worry — automation makes it seamless.
Here’s how to set it up:
Add a checkbox property — call it something like Win. This will control your colors.
Set up an automation:
Trigger: When any property is edited.
Action: Update pages in your trades database.
Conditions:
If P&L > 0 → check Win.
If P&L < 0 → uncheck Win.
Apply Conditional Coloring:
Go to Database → Conditional Coloring → select Win.
Assign green for checked (profits) and red for unchecked (losses).
Result: Your Win property updates automatically with every trade, and your journal stays perfectly color-coded without extra clicks.
Final Thoughts
Conditional Coloring may look like a small feature, but for traders, it’s a big deal. It makes your Notion workspace more visual, more intuitive, and more actionable. Instead of hunting through data, your journal now gives you instant feedback.
Color-coded clarity, automated updates, and effortless tracking — exactly what every trader needs to stay sharp.
Step-by-Step: Automating Conditional Coloring in Notion
There’s one limitation: Conditional Coloring currently doesn’t work directly with formula properties. But don’t worry — automation makes it seamless.
Here’s how to set it up:
Add a checkbox property — call it something like Win. This will control your colors.
Set up an automation:
Trigger: When any property is edited.
Action: Update pages in your trades database.
Conditions:
If P&L > 0 → check Win.
If P&L < 0 → uncheck Win.
Apply Conditional Coloring:
Go to Database → Conditional Coloring → select Win.
Assign green for checked (profits) and red for unchecked (losses).
Result: Your Win property updates automatically with every trade, and your journal stays perfectly color-coded without extra clicks.
Final Thoughts
Conditional Coloring may look like a small feature, but for traders, it’s a big deal. It makes your Notion workspace more visual, more intuitive, and more actionable. Instead of hunting through data, your journal now gives you instant feedback.
Color-coded clarity, automated updates, and effortless tracking — exactly what every trader needs to stay sharp.
