I sat through Three Step Guide's two-minute walkthrough of the Axiom PnL tracker, and the useful part is narrower than the title suggests: a settings window, two switches and a preview card. It was published on July 23, 2026, and it never leaves the Discover page. Axiom is a non-custodial web trading terminal for Solana memecoins at axiom.trade, so the coins stay in the wallet you connect and the terminal reads what is there.
What the Axiom PnL tracker shows
Profit and loss, written PnL, is the gap between what a position cost you and what it is worth now. Axiom prints the figure in an overlay at the bottom of the Discover page. With an empty wallet behind it, the card reads "Balance: 0 SOL, PnL: 0 SOL". The layout splits it in two: balance on one side, running gain or loss on the other, both in SOL until you change a setting.
That overlay is a display layer. The terminal works out where each position stands from what the connected wallet paid and what the market says the position is worth; the settings only decide how that result appears on screen. Two traders with identical trades can see cards that look different and still hold the same value.
A running PnL earns its place on a terminal where trades happen in seconds. You can see whether a position is up before you close it, and compare one trade with the next without exporting anything. The balance line does a different job: it shows what is left in the wallet, and that is the figure that limits the next trade.
The card sits in the lower part of the interface, so it is easy to miss on a laptop with the browser zoomed in. Scan the bottom of the page before you go hunting through menus.
I think this is where a lot of people stop. They read the number once, take a screenshot and move on, and the card keeps showing whatever currency it was set to on the first day. The settings exist because the same figure reads differently in dollars and in SOL, and a memecoin trader usually thinks in one of the two.
How to customize the Axiom PnL tracker
- Open axiom.trade and go to the SOL Discover page. Check that the address bar shows axiom.trade/discover before you connect anything.
- Look at the bottom of the screen for the PnL section. If it is not visible, check the lower panel and the bottom navigation.
- Click PnL to open the tracker. A card appears with the balance line and the PnL line.
- Click the settings icon inside that card. A window called PnL Settings opens with four groups: General, Appearance, Background and Text.
- Start with General. Swap USD and SOL decides which currency leads the line, and Show alternate currency adds the second currency beside it.
- Watch the preview card while you change things. It flips between a gain and a loss so you see both cases before you commit.
- Click Done at the bottom right of the window.
- Open the tracker again and check that the card reads the way you expected.
The settings sit inside the PnL window, not in a global menu, and that is the step people skip. The advice that comes with the tutorial is to move slowly: "review each option so you understand what is being enabled." That holds for any panel that changes how money is displayed, because a misread minus sign costs more than no number at all.
Done closes the window and applies the display change. Nothing behind the card moves: no position is sold and no balance changes. A card that looks smaller after a currency switch can feel like a loss when the position has not moved at all.
The four group names also tell you what the panel covers. General holds the currency switches. Appearance, Background and Text deal with how the card looks, which matters when the overlay sits above a busy chart all day. A card you can read at a glance is a card you will check.
What the two switches change on the card
Both switches are about presentation. Neither one touches the position behind the number.
| Setting | What it changes | When it helps |
|---|---|---|
| Swap USD and SOL | Which currency leads the PnL line | You plan trades in SOL and want the figure to match |
| Show alternate currency | Adds the second currency beside the first | You want a dollar reading and a SOL reading on the same line |
The preview card is the part I would spend time on. It shows "$12.34 (+1.23%)" for a gain and "-$12.34 (-1.23%)" for a loss, so you see the minus sign, the percentage and the currency before they appear on real money. Flip Swap USD and SOL and the preview changes order. Turn on Show alternate currency and both readings sit together.
The absolute figure and the percentage answer different questions. The currency amount tells you what the position is worth today. The percentage tells you how it got there, which is the number that separates a small win on a large position from a large win on a small one. I would keep both visible where the layout allows, because a card built on one of them is easy to misread.
For anyone who budgets in dollars but trades in SOL, the alternate reading is the useful one. You see the dollar cost of a position without doing the conversion in your head, and you keep the SOL figure where your trade decisions actually happen. Turn both switches on and check the preview before you close the window.
A display setting cannot turn a losing position into a winner, but it can stop you misreading one. On a fast-moving memecoin, a card showing SOL when you expected dollars is the kind of confusion that leads to a bad exit.
Why a PnL figure depends on what sits behind it
Four things decide what the number means, and none of them appear on the settings screen.
Cost basis is the average price you paid for a position, weighted by how much you bought at each price. Buy the same token in three lots and the cost basis is the blend of the three. Fees and slippage change that blend, and a trader who counts only the trade price will always look better than one who counts everything they spent.
The price source is the second. A PnL figure is only as good as the price it marks against. Memecoins trade in pools of very different depths, and a thin pool can show a price that nobody could sell into at size. The mark price on a card is a reading, not an offer. A card can be accurate to its pool and still describe money you could not get out.
Realized and unrealized gains answer different questions. A closed trade is settled. An open position moves with the market and can reverse before you act. A screenshot can mix the two, and the flattering version of any set of trades is usually the one with the winners closed and the losers still open.
The period is the fourth. A day, a week and a year give three different pictures of the same wallet, and a card with no date on it does not say which one you are looking at.
The tracker is not the problem here. The label deserves as much attention as the number. The settings window controls the label, and the cost basis is decided when you buy, well before any card appears.
Why screenshots of PnL cards prove nothing
A PnL card is a picture of an interface, and you cannot audit it. Anyone with a browser can change the text on a page before taking a screenshot. Cropping removes the losing side of a portfolio, and a good afternoon can be kept while three bad months are cut out of the frame. The wallet behind the picture may hold one winning trade and ten losers.
Staging does not even need editing. An old picture from a good week, a demo account with play money, or a wallet emptied after the picture was taken all produce the same thing: an image of a moment, not a record.
The tutorial stops at the overlay settings; the terminal also has a PnL calendar and a share-card maker, and both are worth opening before you build a habit around them.
The incentive matters too. A person posting a PnL card usually wants something: attention, followers, or buyers for a token they already hold. When the promoter of a memecoin also supplies the evidence that the trade worked, you are reading a sales pitch.
What counts is the wallet. If the address is public, anyone with a block explorer can check the trades behind the number, and the screenshot becomes unnecessary. That is the test I would apply to every PnL card I see from now on, including the modest ones, because a modest claim is cheaper to fake than a wild one.
How to check a PnL claim before you believe it
- What period does it cover, and is the start date visible in the image?
- Is the figure realized, unrealized, or a mix of both?
- Which cost basis and which price feed, and are fees and slippage included?
- Is there a wallet address you can look up, or only a picture?
- Is this one wallet out of several, with the losing trades parked in another?
The last question is the one that catches most promotions. It costs nothing to keep a second wallet and post only its results, or to close the winners and leave the losers open for the screenshot. A tracker can show what a wallet did. It cannot show what the person left out.
A block explorer answers most of these in a few minutes. You can see when a token was bought, how much was paid and whether it has been sold. That is slower than tapping a heart on a post, and it is the only check that tells you anything about the trades themselves.
A genuine card from a winning week still describes the past. It cannot tell you what the same wallet holds now, or how the next trade will go.
Signing up and keeping the wallet safe
Access to the terminal comes from connecting a wallet, not from a username and password. If you are setting one up, this site's signup link is axiom.trade/@code20; that is a referral link, and this site may earn a share of the fees of people who join through it. Account setup, filters and order types are covered step by step in our Axiom tutorial.
Before you connect anything, read the address bar and make sure it says axiom.trade. Phishing sites copy trading interfaces closely, and a wallet connection on the wrong domain can empty an account. Bookmark the real address and open it from the bookmark instead of a link in a chat.
Axiom is non-custodial, so nobody at the company can restore your funds or reset a password. The seed phrase or private key is the only backup. Keep it out of websites, chat windows and your phone's camera roll.
Signing is the other habit worth building. Every transaction you approve can move tokens, and token approvals can stay open long after the trade you made them for. Read what a signature request asks for before you confirm it, and treat any pop-up that appears unprompted as suspicious.
I would also start with an amount small enough to lose without changing your month. Memecoins on Solana can move a long way in minutes, and the same speed that makes a PnL card interesting makes it easy to be wrong quickly. A small first trade also shows you how the card behaves when a position moves, which no preview can.
What to watch on your own tracker
Pick one currency and keep it. If you think in SOL, turn on Swap USD and SOL so the leading number matches the way you plan trades, and leave Show alternate currency on so a dollar reading sits beside it. Then check the sign before you check the size. A minus in front of a small number is still a loss, and a card that flips currency between sessions is a good way to misread one.
The figure that matters sits behind the card: the cost basis, because that is the input you control when you buy and the one most screenshots leave out. When the next PnL card crosses your feed, ask for the wallet address and the period first. If both are missing, the green number is a picture you have no way to check.
