> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.nexttick.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The Social Network

> Share real trades from your journal, follow verified traders, and engage with a community where every post is backed by an actual logged fill.

The Feed is NextTick's social layer — and it works differently from every other trading community you've used. Every post in the Feed is a verified trade pulled directly from a trader's journal. There are no screenshots, no cropped brokerage statements, no made-up fills. When someone posts a win or a loss, you can trust it's real because NextTick sourced it from their actual Trade Log.

## How the Feed works

Each post in the Feed originates from a trade record in a trader's journal. When a trader marks a trade as shared, it surfaces in the Feed alongside their verified P\&L and R-multiple. You can interact with any shared trade in three ways:

* **Quote** — add your own commentary or analysis on top of the shared trade, creating a new post attributed to you
* **Repost** — surface the trade to your own followers without adding commentary
* **Discuss** — reply directly to the post; every reply you write ties back to a verified trade from your own journal

Real P\&L leaderboards rank traders by actual logged performance, so you can see at a glance who has the receipts to back up what they're saying.

## How to share a trade

Before sharing, the trade must have a symbol, direction, and both entry and exit prices recorded.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the trade in your Trade Log">
    Navigate to the Trade Log and click the trade you want to share.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Click the Share button">
    The Share button appears in the trade detail panel. It is only active when the trade has a symbol, direction, entry price, and exit price filled in.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add an optional caption or analysis note">
    Write a caption to give context — what the setup was, why you took it, what you learned. This is optional but recommended.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose your audience">
    Select **Public** to make the trade visible to anyone on NextTick, or **Followers only** to limit visibility to people who follow you.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Post to the Feed">
    Confirm and post. The trade appears in the Feed with your verified journal data attached — symbol, direction, P\&L, and R-multiple.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Privacy and safety

You are always in control of what appears in the Feed. Nothing from your journal is posted automatically.

* Only trades you explicitly share appear publicly — your full Trade Log stays private by default
* Your exact position size is hidden from other users; only P\&L and R-multiple are shown
* You can unshare a trade at any time by opening it in the Trade Log and toggling the share setting off; it is immediately removed from the Feed

<Note>
  The Feed is available on all NextTick plans, including Free. If you upgrade to the Creator plan (\$49/mo), you unlock a subscriber-only feed — posts visible exclusively to your paying subscribers, separate from the public Feed.
</Note>