diff --git a/src/PortfolioData.zig b/src/PortfolioData.zig
index cee772a..d95d0ce 100644
--- a/src/PortfolioData.zig
+++ b/src/PortfolioData.zig
@@ -319,6 +319,19 @@ revalue_positions: []const zfin.Position = &.{},
 /// with arena-duped keys. Null before the first load. A `revalue`
 /// overlays streamed prices onto a copy of this.
 revalue_base_prices: ?std.StringHashMap(f64) = null,
+/// The equity portfolio's move over the session the current prices
+/// belong to - the "Day" figure in the portfolio header. Null until the
+/// candles worker has landed (day-over-day needs candle history), and
+/// recomputed on every `revalue` so it tracks streamed ticks.
+///
+/// `_data` per this file's convention for worker-produced state: READ IT
+/// VIA `dayChange()`, never directly. A direct read renders nothing on
+/// the first paint and then has the figure appear once the worker lands -
+/// which is precisely the bug that shipped.
+///
+/// See `valuation.DayChange`: it is keyed on the PRICED date, not on
+/// today, so it stays correct outside live mode.
+day_change_data: ?zfin.valuation.DayChange = null,
 /// Dedicated arena for `revalue`'s working price map + recomputed
 /// summary, reset at the start of each call so a long streaming
 /// session can't grow memory unbounded. Lives across reloads; released
@@ -420,6 +433,23 @@ pub fn snapshots(self: *PortfolioData) ?[HistoricalPeriod.all.len]HistoricalSnap
     return self.snapshots_data;
 }
 
+/// The equity portfolio's move over the session the current prices belong
+/// to. Blocks on the snapshots worker, which is where it is first computed
+/// (day-over-day needs the candle history that worker waits on).
+///
+/// MUST be read through this rather than off the field: the field is null
+/// until that worker lands, so a plain read renders nothing on the first
+/// paint and then the figure silently appears once the user switches tabs
+/// and comes back. `snapshots()` already pays this same await on the same
+/// render, so there is no extra latency - the two land together.
+///
+/// `revalue` refreshes the field directly on every streamed tick
+/// thereafter, by which point the future has long since resolved.
+pub fn dayChange(self: *PortfolioData) ?zfin.valuation.DayChange {
+    self.awaitWorkerTimed(&self.snapshots_future, "snapshots (from dayChange)");
+    return self.day_change_data;
+}
+
 /// Per-symbol cached dividends. Blocks on the dividends worker.
 pub fn dividends(self: *PortfolioData) ?*const std.StringHashMap([]const Dividend) {
     self.awaitWorkerTimed(&self.dividends_future, "dividends");
@@ -622,6 +652,7 @@ pub fn load(
     // here and the recapture below can't read freed memory.
     self.revalue_positions = &.{};
     self.revalue_base_prices = null;
+    self.day_change_data = null;
     self.summary = null;
     self.latest_quote_date = null;
     self.live_prices_applied = false;
@@ -955,9 +986,49 @@ pub fn revalue(self: *PortfolioData, today: Date, overlay: *const std.StringHash
         }
     }
     self.live_prices_applied = applied;
+    self.recomputeDayChange(today, prices, manual_price_set);
     return true;
 }
 
+/// Recompute `day_change_data` from the price map the summary was just built
+/// from, so the two can never disagree about what a position is worth.
+///
+/// Silently leaves `day_change_data` alone when the inputs aren't there yet:
+/// the candles map arrives on a background worker, so on a cold start the
+/// header simply omits the figure until it lands - the same gating the
+/// `Historical:` line already has.
+///
+/// The session being reported is the one the CURRENT prices belong to, not
+/// today: with a live overlay applied that is today, otherwise it is the
+/// newest quote date across held symbols. Getting this wrong is what makes
+/// a weekend view report a $0.00 day - see `valuation.DayChange`.
+fn recomputeDayChange(
+    self: *PortfolioData,
+    today: Date,
+    prices: std.StringHashMap(f64),
+    manual_prices: ?std.StringHashMap(void),
+) void {
+    const candle_map = self.candles_data orelse return;
+    if (self.revalue_positions.len == 0) return;
+    // Lots are needed only to tell a hand-priced holding (permanently
+    // un-day-changeable, so not a gap) from a security that should have
+    // priced and didn't.
+    const pf = self.file orelse return;
+    const priced_date = if (self.live_prices_applied)
+        today
+    else
+        self.latest_quote_date orelse return;
+
+    self.day_change_data = zfin.valuation.computeDayChange(
+        priced_date,
+        self.revalue_positions,
+        pf.lots,
+        prices,
+        manual_prices,
+        candle_map,
+    );
+}
+
 /// Cancel any in-flight load and pending background workers.
 /// Safe to call at any time including when nothing is in-flight.
 /// After cancel, snapshots / dividends / account_map data is
@@ -987,6 +1058,8 @@ pub fn cancelLoad(self: *PortfolioData) void {
     if (self.snapshots_future) |*f| _ = f.cancel(self.io);
     self.snapshots_future = null;
     self.snapshots_data = null;
+    // Derived from the snapshots worker's inputs, so it dies with them.
+    self.day_change_data = null;
     if (self.dividends_future) |*f| _ = f.cancel(self.io);
     self.dividends_future = null;
     self.dividends_data = null;
@@ -1066,8 +1139,21 @@ fn snapshotsWorker(self: *PortfolioData, as_of: Date, positions: []const zfin.Po
         as_of,
         positions,
         prices,
+        // `prices` here is the pre-fallback candle-close map, so it holds no
+        // overrides and needs no manual set.
+        null,
         candle_map,
     );
+
+    // First chance to compute the day change: it needs candle history for
+    // the prior close, which is what this worker just waited on. `revalue`
+    // refreshes it on every streamed tick thereafter.
+    //
+    // `prices` here is the pre-fallback base map, so a position priced only
+    // by a manual override or avg-cost fallback is absent and lands in
+    // `positions_total` without contributing - which is honest, since
+    // neither has a day-over-day meaning. Hence no manual set to pass.
+    self.recomputeDayChange(as_of, prices, null);
 }
 
 /// Warm the dividend cache, then read it into the map.
@@ -1242,6 +1328,48 @@ test "PortfolioData.cancelLoad: idempotent on idle state" {
     try testing.expect(pd.classification_map_data == null);
 }
 
+test "PortfolioData.dayChange: reads through the accessor, not the raw field" {
+    // The regression: the portfolio header read the raw field as a plain
+    // field. It is populated by the snapshots worker, so on the FIRST paint
+    // it was still null and the session-change line was simply missing -
+    // then appeared once the user switched tabs and came back and the
+    // worker had landed. `snapshots()` avoids that by awaiting the same
+    // future; `dayChange()` must do the same.
+    var svc: DataService = .{
+        .allocator = testing.allocator,
+        .io = testing.io,
+        .config = .{ .cache_dir = "./.tmp/zfin-pd-daychange-cache" },
+    };
+    var pd = PortfolioData.init(.{ .gpa = testing.allocator, .io = testing.io, .svc = &svc });
+    defer pd.deinit();
+
+    // Nothing loaded: null, and no hang on the absent future.
+    try testing.expect(pd.dayChange() == null);
+
+    // Once the worker has produced a figure, the accessor surfaces it.
+    pd.day_change_data = .{
+        .priced_date = Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 26),
+        .change = -7180.04,
+        .prev_stock_value = 100_000,
+        .curr_stock_value = 92_819.96,
+        .positions_covered = 23,
+        .positions_priceable = 23,
+        .positions_total = 25,
+        .uncovered_value = 0,
+    };
+    const dc = pd.dayChange() orelse return error.TestUnexpectedResult;
+    try testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, -7180.04), dc.change, 0.001);
+    try testing.expect(dc.hasData());
+    // 23 of 23 POSSIBLE positions covered; the other 2 are hand-priced and
+    // can never be day-changed, so this counts as complete and the header
+    // shows no shortfall marker.
+    try testing.expect(dc.complete());
+
+    // cancelLoad drops it with the rest of the worker-derived state.
+    pd.cancelLoad();
+    try testing.expect(pd.dayChange() == null);
+}
+
 test "PortfolioData.primeClassificationMap: spawns the classification worker without a full load" {
     var svc: DataService = .{
         .allocator = testing.allocator,
diff --git a/src/analytics/valuation.zig b/src/analytics/valuation.zig
index ba7fd12..b185b5d 100644
--- a/src/analytics/valuation.zig
+++ b/src/analytics/valuation.zig
@@ -670,6 +670,222 @@ pub const HistoricalPeriod = enum {
     };
 };
 
+/// A single session's move in the portfolio's equity holdings - the
+/// brokerage "Day Change" figure.
+///
+/// ## Which session
+///
+/// `priced_date` is the date the CURRENT prices belong to, and the whole
+/// figure describes that day's move. It is deliberately NOT "today":
+///
+///   - Streaming live on a Tuesday: current prices are live ticks, so
+///     `priced_date` is Tuesday and this is Tuesday's move so far.
+///   - Not streaming, Tuesday mid-session: the newest candle is Monday's,
+///     so current prices ARE Monday's closes, `priced_date` is Monday, and
+///     this is Monday's completed move.
+///   - Saturday: the newest candle is Friday's, so this is Friday's move.
+///
+/// Keying on the priced date instead of today is what keeps the figure
+/// correct outside live mode. Anchoring the previous close to `today - 1`
+/// instead collapses to zero every weekend, because Friday's bar is both
+/// "the current price" and "the last close before today".
+///
+/// Use `recency()` to label it - a renderer should say "Day" only when the
+/// priced date really is today.
+///
+/// ## What is included
+///
+/// Equity positions only. Cash, CDs, options and illiquid assets have no
+/// daily price move and contribute zero, matching how
+/// `adjustForNonStockAssets` keeps them out of `unrealized_gain_loss`.
+/// They DO belong in the percentage's denominator - see `pctOfAccount`.
+pub const DayChange = struct {
+    /// The session this describes. See the type doc.
+    priced_date: Date,
+    /// `curr_stock_value - prev_stock_value`. Signed.
+    change: f64,
+    /// Covered positions valued at the previous session's closes.
+    prev_stock_value: f64,
+    /// The same positions at current prices.
+    curr_stock_value: f64,
+    /// Positions with BOTH a current price and a previous close.
+    positions_covered: usize,
+    /// Positions that COULD have a daily series - everything except the
+    /// ones the user prices by hand.
+    ///
+    /// A holding with an explicit `price::` and no candle history can never
+    /// be day-changed: the only price zfin will ever have for it is the one
+    /// typed in, and no amount of fixing changes that. Counting it as a gap
+    /// means the shortfall marker is permanently lit, which trains the
+    /// reader to ignore it. So those are excluded here, and
+    /// `positions_total - positions_priceable` is the impossible remainder.
+    ///
+    /// `covered < positions_priceable` is therefore the only interesting
+    /// condition: a security that SHOULD have priced and didn't.
+    positions_priceable: usize,
+    /// All equity positions considered, impossible ones included.
+    positions_total: usize,
+    /// Market value of the priceable-but-uncovered positions - how much the
+    /// dollar figure is short by. Reported instead of a count because two
+    /// missing securities could be $3k or $3M, and only the former is
+    /// ignorable.
+    ///
+    /// Valued at the current price when there is one, else at `avg_cost`
+    /// (the same last-resort the summary itself falls back to), so this
+    /// stays meaningful even on the first paint where the price map holds
+    /// candle closes only.
+    uncovered_value: f64,
+
+    /// The move as a fraction of YESTERDAY'S WHOLE ACCOUNT value, cash and
+    /// CDs and options included.
+    ///
+    /// `total_value_now` is the summary's `total_value`; since the non-stock
+    /// part cannot move intraday, `total_value_now - change` is exactly the
+    /// prior session's account value. Dilutes by the non-equity weight -
+    /// the same dilution `unrealized_return` already carries, and the same
+    /// basis a brokerage reports an account-level day change on, so this
+    /// figure is comparable with the Gain/Loss percentage beside it.
+    ///
+    /// Positions excluded from `change` sit in this denominator, which
+    /// implicitly treats them as flat. Measured on a real portfolio the
+    /// difference against excluding them was 0.1277% vs 0.1323% - identical
+    /// once rendered to one decimal - so the simpler whole-account basis
+    /// wins.
+    ///
+    /// Zero when the prior value works out to zero.
+    pub fn pctOfAccount(self: DayChange, total_value_now: f64) f64 {
+        const prev_total = total_value_now - self.change;
+        if (prev_total == 0) return 0;
+        return self.change / prev_total;
+    }
+
+    /// True when every position that COULD be day-changed was. Impossible
+    /// ones don't count against it - see `positions_priceable`.
+    pub fn complete(self: DayChange) bool {
+        return self.positions_covered == self.positions_priceable;
+    }
+
+    /// Whether anything was priced at all. A renderer should suppress the
+    /// figure entirely when this is false rather than show `+$0.00`.
+    pub fn hasData(self: DayChange) bool {
+        return self.positions_covered > 0;
+    }
+
+    pub const Recency = enum { today, yesterday, older };
+
+    /// How `priced_date` relates to `today`, so a renderer can choose
+    /// between "Day", "Yesterday" and naming the date outright.
+    pub fn recency(self: DayChange, today: Date) Recency {
+        if (self.priced_date.eql(today)) return .today;
+        if (self.priced_date.eql(today.addDays(-1))) return .yesterday;
+        return .older;
+    }
+};
+
+/// Whether the user prices this symbol by hand, i.e. some lot carries an
+/// explicit `price::`.
+///
+/// Deliberately keyed on `lot.price`, NOT on the `manual_prices` set from
+/// `buildFallbackPrices`: that set also collects avg-cost fallbacks, which
+/// are the opposite case - a security that should have priced and didn't.
+/// Using it here would silently hide exactly the failures worth surfacing.
+fn userPricedSymbol(lots: []const portfolio_mod.Lot, price_symbol: []const u8) bool {
+    for (lots) |lot| {
+        if (lot.security_type != .stock) continue;
+        if (lot.price == null) continue;
+        if (std.mem.eql(u8, lot.priceSymbol(), price_symbol)) return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+/// Compute the equity portfolio's move over the session ending at
+/// `priced_date`.
+///
+/// `current_prices` maps symbol -> price. Entries are **RAW base-ticker
+/// prices** except those named in `manual_prices`, which are already in the
+/// lot's own share class; the ratio is applied here, so mislabelling one as
+/// raw squares it.
+///
+/// `lots` is used only to tell an IMPOSSIBLE gap from a FIXABLE one: a
+/// hand-priced holding with no candle history can never be day-changed and
+/// is left out of `positions_priceable`, whereas a security that should
+/// have priced and didn't is counted so the caller can flag it. See
+/// `DayChange.positions_priceable`.
+///
+/// The previous close comes from `candleCloseOnOrBefore(candles,
+/// priced_date - 1)`, which snaps backward over weekends and holidays and
+/// - crucially - excludes `priced_date`'s own bar, so the same call is
+/// correct whether or not today's candle has been written yet.
+pub fn computeDayChange(
+    priced_date: Date,
+    positions: []const portfolio_mod.Position,
+    lots: []const portfolio_mod.Lot,
+    current_prices: std.StringHashMap(f64),
+    manual_prices: ?std.StringHashMap(void),
+    candle_map: std.StringHashMap([]const Candle),
+) DayChange {
+    var prev_value: f64 = 0;
+    var curr_value: f64 = 0;
+    var uncovered: f64 = 0;
+    var covered: usize = 0;
+    var priceable: usize = 0;
+    var total: usize = 0;
+
+    const prev_target = priced_date.addDays(-1);
+
+    for (positions) |pos| {
+        if (pos.shares <= 0) continue;
+        total += 1;
+
+        const is_manual = if (manual_prices) |mp| mp.contains(pos.symbol) else false;
+        const maybe_curr = current_prices.get(pos.symbol);
+        // This position's contribution to the shortfall if it turns out to
+        // be uncovered. Falls back to avg_cost the same way
+        // `Portfolio.totalForAccount` does, so the figure survives the
+        // first paint, where the price map holds candle closes only.
+        const pos_value = if (maybe_curr) |p|
+            pos.marketValue(p, is_manual)
+        else
+            pos.marketValue(pos.avg_cost, true);
+
+        const candles = candle_map.get(pos.symbol);
+
+        // Impossible rather than missing: hand-priced with no daily series.
+        // Not counted as priceable, so it can never light the marker.
+        if (candles == null and userPricedSymbol(lots, pos.symbol)) continue;
+        priceable += 1;
+
+        const raw_curr = maybe_curr orelse {
+            uncovered += pos_value;
+            continue;
+        };
+        const cs = candles orelse {
+            uncovered += pos_value;
+            continue;
+        };
+        const prev = candleCloseOnOrBefore(cs, prev_target) orelse {
+            uncovered += pos_value;
+            continue;
+        };
+
+        curr_value += pos.marketValue(raw_curr, is_manual);
+        // Candle closes are always raw, so the ratio applies.
+        prev_value += pos.marketValue(prev.close, false);
+        covered += 1;
+    }
+
+    return .{
+        .priced_date = priced_date,
+        .change = curr_value - prev_value,
+        .prev_stock_value = prev_value,
+        .curr_stock_value = curr_value,
+        .positions_covered = covered,
+        .positions_priceable = priceable,
+        .positions_total = total,
+        .uncovered_value = uncovered,
+    };
+}
+
 /// One snapshot of portfolio value at a historical date.
 pub const HistoricalSnapshot = struct {
     period: HistoricalPeriod,
@@ -709,21 +925,26 @@ fn findPriceAtDate(candles: []const Candle, target: Date) ?f64 {
 /// Compute historical portfolio snapshots for all standard lookback periods.
 /// `candle_map` maps symbol -> sorted candle slice.
 ///
-/// `current_prices` maps symbol -> **RAW base-ticker price**, on the same
-/// footing as the candle closes this reads for the historical side. Pass the
-/// candle-close price map (`PortfolioData.revalue_base_prices`, or
-/// `portfolio_loader`'s `prices`) - NEVER
-/// `summary.allocations[].current_price`, which for an unmerged allocation
+/// `current_prices` maps symbol -> price. Entries are **RAW base-ticker
+/// prices** except those named in `manual_prices`, which are already in the
+/// lot's own share class. NEVER pass
+/// `summary.allocations[].current_price`: for an unmerged allocation that
 /// already has the lot's `price_ratio` folded in and would get it applied a
 /// second time below, squaring it. That shipped in the TUI path and silently
 /// broke every percentage on the `Historical:` line for a lone `ticker::` +
 /// `price_ratio::` lot.
 ///
+/// `manual_prices` may be null when the caller's map is known to hold candle
+/// closes only - e.g. `PortfolioData.revalue_base_prices`, captured before
+/// `buildFallbackPrices` folds in overrides. Pass the set whenever the map
+/// went through that function.
+///
 /// Only equity positions are considered.
 pub fn computeHistoricalSnapshots(
     as_of: Date,
     positions: []const portfolio_mod.Position,
     current_prices: std.StringHashMap(f64),
+    manual_prices: ?std.StringHashMap(void),
     candle_map: std.StringHashMap([]const Candle),
 ) [HistoricalPeriod.all.len]HistoricalSnapshot {
     var result: [HistoricalPeriod.all.len]HistoricalSnapshot = undefined;
@@ -740,11 +961,13 @@ pub fn computeHistoricalSnapshots(
             const candles = candle_map.get(pos.symbol) orelse continue;
             const hist_price = findPriceAtDate(candles, target) orelse continue;
 
-            // Both sides are RAW base-ticker prices - the historical one from
-            // candle history, the current one per this function's contract -
-            // so the share-class ratio applies to both: `is_preadjusted = false`.
+            // The historical side always comes from candle history, so it is
+            // raw and the share-class ratio applies. The current side is raw
+            // too UNLESS it is a manual override, which is already in the
+            // lot's own share class.
+            const is_manual = if (manual_prices) |mp| mp.contains(pos.symbol) else false;
             hist_value += pos.marketValue(hist_price, false);
-            curr_value += pos.marketValue(curr_price, false);
+            curr_value += pos.marketValue(curr_price, is_manual);
             count += 1;
         }
 
@@ -767,6 +990,390 @@ fn makeCandle(date: Date, price: f64) Candle {
     return .{ .date = date, .open = price, .high = price, .low = price, .close = price, .adj_close = price, .volume = 1000 };
 }
 
+fn dcPos(symbol: []const u8, shares: f64, ratio: f64) portfolio_mod.Position {
+    return .{
+        .symbol = symbol,
+        .shares = shares,
+        .avg_cost = 0,
+        .total_cost = 0,
+        .open_lots = 1,
+        .closed_lots = 0,
+        .realized_gain_loss = 0,
+        .price_ratio = ratio,
+    };
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: previous close is the session before the priced date" {
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    // Fri 2024-06-07 close 100, Mon 2024-06-10 close 110.
+    const candles = [_]Candle{
+        makeCandle(Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 7), 100),
+        makeCandle(Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10), 110),
+    };
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("ABC", &candles);
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{dcPos("ABC", 10, 1.0)};
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("ABC", 110); // current = Monday's close
+
+    // Priced date is Monday: the previous close is FRIDAY's, snapping back
+    // over the weekend. 10 * (110 - 100) = +$100.
+    const dc = computeDayChange(Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10), &positions, &.{}, prices, null, cm);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 1000), dc.prev_stock_value, 0.01);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 1100), dc.curr_stock_value, 0.01);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 100), dc.change, 0.01);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), dc.positions_covered);
+    try std.testing.expect(dc.complete());
+    try std.testing.expect(dc.hasData());
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: a weekend view reports Friday's move, not zero" {
+    // The bug the priced-date design exists to avoid. It is Saturday; the
+    // newest candle is Friday's, so the current price IS Friday's close.
+    // Anchoring the previous close to `today - 1` (= Friday) would match
+    // Friday's own bar and report a $0.00 day. Anchoring to
+    // `priced_date - 1` correctly picks Thursday.
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const thu = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 6);
+    const fri = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 7);
+    const sat = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 8);
+    const candles = [_]Candle{ makeCandle(thu, 100), makeCandle(fri, 105) };
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("ABC", &candles);
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{dcPos("ABC", 10, 1.0)};
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("ABC", 105);
+
+    const good = computeDayChange(fri, &positions, &.{}, prices, null, cm);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 50), good.change, 0.01);
+    // ...and it is labelled as Friday's move, not today's.
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(DayChange.Recency.yesterday, good.recency(sat));
+
+    // What anchoring on `today` would have produced.
+    const bad = computeDayChange(sat, &positions, &.{}, prices, null, cm);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 0), bad.change, 0.01);
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: live intraday prices against the prior close" {
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const mon = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10);
+    const tue = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11);
+    // Only Monday's bar exists - Tuesday's has not been written yet.
+    const candles = [_]Candle{makeCandle(mon, 100)};
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("ABC", &candles);
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{dcPos("ABC", 10, 1.0)};
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("ABC", 103); // streamed tick
+
+    const dc = computeDayChange(tue, &positions, &.{}, prices, null, cm);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 30), dc.change, 0.01);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(DayChange.Recency.today, dc.recency(tue));
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: the share-class ratio is applied exactly once" {
+    // Same trap as computeHistoricalSnapshots: both sides take RAW prices.
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const mon = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10);
+    const tue = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11);
+    const candles = [_]Candle{makeCandle(mon, 20)};
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("VTTHX", &candles);
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{dcPos("VTTHX", 100, 5.0)};
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("VTTHX", 22); // raw; institutional NAV is 110
+
+    const dc = computeDayChange(tue, &positions, &.{}, prices, null, cm);
+    // 100 * 20 * 5 = 10,000 -> 100 * 22 * 5 = 11,000. Ratio once, not twice.
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 10_000), dc.prev_stock_value, 0.01);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 11_000), dc.curr_stock_value, 0.01);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 1000), dc.change, 0.01);
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: a manual price is preadjusted, ratio not reapplied" {
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const mon = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10);
+    const tue = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11);
+    const candles = [_]Candle{makeCandle(mon, 100)};
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("ORCX", &candles);
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{dcPos("ORCX", 10, 5.0)};
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("ORCX", 110); // user-entered NAV, already in lot terms
+    var manual = std.StringHashMap(void).init(a);
+    defer manual.deinit();
+    try manual.put("ORCX", {});
+
+    const dc = computeDayChange(tue, &positions, &.{}, prices, manual, cm);
+    // Current: 10 * 110 (no ratio). Previous: 10 * 100 * 5 (raw candle).
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 1100), dc.curr_stock_value, 0.01);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 5000), dc.prev_stock_value, 0.01);
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: positions without candles are counted but excluded" {
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const mon = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10);
+    const tue = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11);
+    const candles = [_]Candle{makeCandle(mon, 100)};
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("ABC", &candles);
+    // FUNDX has a price but no candle history - a mutual fund the quote
+    // providers cannot price. Its dollars are missing from the figure, so
+    // the renderer must be able to say the total is short.
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{
+        dcPos("ABC", 10, 1.0),
+        dcPos("FUNDX", 100, 1.0),
+    };
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("ABC", 110);
+    try prices.put("FUNDX", 50);
+
+    const dc = computeDayChange(tue, &positions, &.{}, prices, null, cm);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), dc.positions_covered);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 2), dc.positions_total);
+    try std.testing.expect(!dc.complete());
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 100), dc.change, 0.01);
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: a hand-priced holding is IMPOSSIBLE, not a gap" {
+    // The headline behaviour. A 529 fund the user prices by hand on Saturdays
+    // has no candle history and never will: the only price zfin will ever
+    // hold for it is the typed one. Counting it as a shortfall would keep the
+    // marker permanently lit and train the reader to ignore it.
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const mon = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10);
+    const tue = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11);
+    const candles = [_]Candle{ makeCandle(mon, 100), makeCandle(tue, 110) };
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("ABC", &candles);
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{
+        dcPos("ABC", 10, 1.0),
+        dcPos("ORCX", 100, 1.0), // hand-priced, no candles
+    };
+    // The `price::` on the lot is the signal - see `userPricedSymbol`.
+    const lots = [_]portfolio_mod.Lot{
+        .{ .symbol = "ABC", .shares = 10, .open_date = mon, .open_price = 100 },
+        .{ .symbol = "ORCX", .shares = 100, .open_date = mon, .open_price = 18, .price = 19.01 },
+    };
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("ABC", 110);
+    try prices.put("ORCX", 19.01);
+
+    const dc = computeDayChange(tue, &positions, &lots, prices, null, cm);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 2), dc.positions_total);
+    // ORCX is not even a candidate, so coverage is 1 of 1 POSSIBLE.
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), dc.positions_priceable);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), dc.positions_covered);
+    try std.testing.expect(dc.complete()); // -> renderer shows no marker
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 0), dc.uncovered_value, 0.01);
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 100), dc.change, 0.01);
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: a security that SHOULD have priced is a real gap" {
+    // No `price::` on the lot, no candles - something went wrong (fetch
+    // failure, negative cache entry, brand-new symbol). That is fixable and
+    // must be surfaced, valued so the reader can judge materiality.
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const mon = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10);
+    const tue = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11);
+    const candles = [_]Candle{ makeCandle(mon, 100), makeCandle(tue, 110) };
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("ABC", &candles);
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{
+        dcPos("ABC", 10, 1.0),
+        dcPos("BROKEN", 100, 1.0),
+    };
+    const lots = [_]portfolio_mod.Lot{
+        .{ .symbol = "ABC", .shares = 10, .open_date = mon, .open_price = 100 },
+        .{ .symbol = "BROKEN", .shares = 100, .open_date = mon, .open_price = 40 },
+    };
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("ABC", 110);
+    try prices.put("BROKEN", 50);
+
+    const dc = computeDayChange(tue, &positions, &lots, prices, null, cm);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 2), dc.positions_priceable);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), dc.positions_covered);
+    try std.testing.expect(!dc.complete()); // -> renderer shows the marker
+    // 100 shares at the current 50 = $5,000 missing from the figure.
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 5000), dc.uncovered_value, 0.01);
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: an avg-cost fallback is FIXABLE, not hidden" {
+    // THE TRAP. `buildFallbackPrices` puts BOTH hand-typed overrides and
+    // avg-cost fallbacks into its `manual_prices` set, so keying the
+    // impossible/fixable split on that set would silently hide genuine
+    // pricing failures. The split keys on `lot.price` instead.
+    //
+    // Here BROKEN has no `price::` but IS in `manual_prices` (second pass,
+    // priced at avg_cost). It must still count as a real gap.
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const mon = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10);
+    const tue = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11);
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{dcPos("BROKEN", 100, 1.0)};
+    const lots = [_]portfolio_mod.Lot{
+        .{ .symbol = "BROKEN", .shares = 100, .open_date = mon, .open_price = 40 },
+    };
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("BROKEN", 40); // avg_cost fallback
+    var manual = std.StringHashMap(void).init(a);
+    defer manual.deinit();
+    try manual.put("BROKEN", {}); // flagged by the SECOND pass
+
+    const dc = computeDayChange(tue, &positions, &lots, prices, manual, cm);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), dc.positions_priceable);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 0), dc.positions_covered);
+    try std.testing.expect(!dc.complete());
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 4000), dc.uncovered_value, 0.01);
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: a hand-priced lot WITH candles is day-changeable" {
+    // `ticker::` + `price::` together: `stockSymbols` still fetches candles
+    // for it, and `buildFallbackPrices` leaves the override unused because a
+    // candle price already exists. So it is priceable and covered normally -
+    // the `price::` alone must not exempt it.
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const mon = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 10);
+    const tue = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11);
+    const candles = [_]Candle{ makeCandle(mon, 20), makeCandle(tue, 22) };
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("VTTHX", &candles);
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{dcPos("VTTHX", 100, 5.0)};
+    const lots = [_]portfolio_mod.Lot{
+        .{ .symbol = "02315N600", .ticker = "VTTHX", .price_ratio = 5.0, .price = 999.0, .shares = 100, .open_date = mon, .open_price = 106.99 },
+    };
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("VTTHX", 22); // candle close won; the override is inert
+
+    const dc = computeDayChange(tue, &positions, &lots, prices, null, cm);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), dc.positions_priceable);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), dc.positions_covered);
+    try std.testing.expect(dc.complete());
+    // Ratio once on each side: 100*20*5 -> 100*22*5.
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 1000), dc.change, 0.01);
+}
+
+test "computeHistoricalSnapshots: a manual price is not re-ratioed" {
+    // Contract hardening. The current-price map is raw EXCEPT entries named
+    // in `manual_prices`, which are already in the lot's own share class.
+    // Only reachable with a back-dated as_of (candles present but starting
+    // after the target), but the contract should hold regardless.
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    const as_of = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 3);
+    const candles = [_]Candle{
+        makeCandle(as_of.subtractMonths(1), 20),
+        makeCandle(as_of, 22),
+    };
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    try cm.put("VTTHX", &candles);
+
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{dcPos("VTTHX", 100, 5.0)};
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    try prices.put("VTTHX", 110); // hand-typed institutional NAV
+    var manual = std.StringHashMap(void).init(a);
+    defer manual.deinit();
+    try manual.put("VTTHX", {});
+
+    const m1 = computeHistoricalSnapshots(as_of, &positions, prices, manual, cm)[0];
+    // Historical side is a raw candle -> ratio applies: 100 * 20 * 5.
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 10_000), m1.historical_value, 0.01);
+    // Current side is preadjusted -> ratio must NOT apply: 100 * 110.
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 11_000), m1.current_value, 0.01);
+    // Passing null instead would square it to 55,000.
+    const wrong = computeHistoricalSnapshots(as_of, &positions, prices, null, cm)[0];
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 55_000), wrong.current_value, 0.01);
+}
+
+test "computeDayChange: nothing priced yields hasData false" {
+    const a = std.testing.allocator;
+    var cm = std.StringHashMap([]const Candle).init(a);
+    defer cm.deinit();
+    var prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
+    defer prices.deinit();
+    const positions = [_]portfolio_mod.Position{dcPos("ABC", 10, 1.0)};
+    const dc = computeDayChange(Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11), &positions, &.{}, prices, null, cm);
+    try std.testing.expect(!dc.hasData());
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 0), dc.positions_covered);
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), dc.positions_total);
+}
+
+test "DayChange.pctOfAccount: dilutes by the non-equity weight" {
+    // $100k account, $95k of it equities that rose 1% ($950), $5k cash.
+    const dc = DayChange{
+        .priced_date = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11),
+        .change = 950,
+        .prev_stock_value = 95_000,
+        .curr_stock_value = 95_950,
+        .positions_covered = 1,
+        .positions_priceable = 1,
+        .positions_total = 1,
+        .uncovered_value = 0,
+    };
+    // Equities alone moved 1.0%...
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 0.01), dc.change / dc.prev_stock_value, 1e-9);
+    // ...but the ACCOUNT moved 950 / 100,000 = 0.95%, which is the figure
+    // shown beside a whole-account Gain/Loss percentage.
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 0.0095), dc.pctOfAccount(100_950), 1e-9);
+}
+
+test "DayChange.pctOfAccount: zero prior account value doesn't divide" {
+    const dc = DayChange{
+        .priced_date = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11),
+        .change = 100,
+        .prev_stock_value = 0,
+        .curr_stock_value = 100,
+        .positions_covered = 1,
+        .positions_priceable = 1,
+        .positions_total = 1,
+        .uncovered_value = 0,
+    };
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(f64, 0), dc.pctOfAccount(100));
+}
+
+test "DayChange.recency: today, yesterday, older" {
+    const today = Date.fromYmd(2024, 6, 11);
+    const mk = struct {
+        fn f(d: Date) DayChange {
+            return .{ .priced_date = d, .change = 0, .prev_stock_value = 0, .curr_stock_value = 0, .positions_covered = 1, .positions_priceable = 1, .positions_total = 1, .uncovered_value = 0 };
+        }
+    }.f;
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(DayChange.Recency.today, mk(today).recency(today));
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(DayChange.Recency.yesterday, mk(today.addDays(-1)).recency(today));
+    try std.testing.expectEqual(DayChange.Recency.older, mk(today.addDays(-4)).recency(today));
+}
+
 test "computeHistoricalSnapshots: current_prices must be RAW, ratio applied once" {
     // The regression. A lone `ticker::` + `price_ratio::` lot produces an
     // UNMERGED allocation whose `current_price` already has the ratio folded
@@ -807,7 +1414,7 @@ test "computeHistoricalSnapshots: current_prices must be RAW, ratio applied once
     defer raw_prices.deinit();
     try raw_prices.put("VTTHX", raw_now);
 
-    const snaps = computeHistoricalSnapshots(as_of, &positions, raw_prices, candle_map);
+    const snaps = computeHistoricalSnapshots(as_of, &positions, raw_prices, null, candle_map);
     const m1 = snaps[0]; // 1M
     try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 1), m1.position_count);
     // Ratio applied exactly once on each side: 100 * 20 * 5 and 100 * 22 * 5.
@@ -821,7 +1428,7 @@ test "computeHistoricalSnapshots: current_prices must be RAW, ratio applied once
     var effective_prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(a);
     defer effective_prices.deinit();
     try effective_prices.put("VTTHX", raw_now * ratio);
-    const bad = computeHistoricalSnapshots(as_of, &positions, effective_prices, candle_map)[0];
+    const bad = computeHistoricalSnapshots(as_of, &positions, effective_prices, null, candle_map)[0];
     try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 55_000), bad.current_value, 0.01); // 5x too big
     try std.testing.expect(bad.changePct() > 400.0); // vs the true +10%
 }
@@ -852,7 +1459,7 @@ test "computeHistoricalSnapshots: an unratioed position is unaffected either way
     defer prices.deinit();
     try prices.put("ABC", 110);
 
-    const m1 = computeHistoricalSnapshots(as_of, &positions, prices, candle_map)[0];
+    const m1 = computeHistoricalSnapshots(as_of, &positions, prices, null, candle_map)[0];
     try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 1000), m1.historical_value, 0.01);
     try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 1100), m1.current_value, 0.01);
     try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 10.0), m1.changePct(), 1e-9);
diff --git a/src/commands/portfolio.zig b/src/commands/portfolio.zig
index cbf6435..ebbae91 100644
--- a/src/commands/portfolio.zig
+++ b/src/commands/portfolio.zig
@@ -293,6 +293,39 @@ pub fn display(
         try out.print("\n", .{});
     }
 
+    // Session change. Labelled by what it actually describes rather than
+    // assumed to be today: this path prices from candle closes, so during a
+    // trading day the newest bar is usually the PREVIOUS session's, which
+    // reads as "Yesterday". Mirrors the TUI portfolio header.
+    if (pf_data.day_change) |dc| {
+        if (dc.hasData()) {
+            var label_buf: [16]u8 = undefined;
+            const label: []const u8 = switch (dc.recency(as_of)) {
+                .today => "Day",
+                .yesterday => "Yesterday",
+                .older => std.fmt.bufPrint(&label_buf, "{f}", .{dc.priced_date}) catch "Day",
+            };
+            var fig_buf: [64]u8 = undefined;
+            const figure = fmt.fmtPriceChange(&fig_buf, dc.change, dc.pctOfAccount(summary.total_value) * 100.0);
+            try out.print("  {s}: ", .{label});
+            try cli.printGainLoss(out, color, dc.change, "{s}", .{figure});
+            if (!dc.complete()) {
+                // Only a FIXABLE gap gets a marker: a security that should
+                // have had a daily series and didn't. Hand-priced holdings
+                // are excluded from `positions_priceable` upstream, so they
+                // never light this - otherwise it would be permanently on
+                // and the reader would learn to ignore it.
+                //
+                // Dollars rather than a count, because two missing
+                // securities could be $3k or $3M and only one of those is
+                // ignorable.
+                const lg = fmt.fmtLargeNumOpts(dc.uncovered_value, .{ .thousands = true });
+                try cli.printFg(out, color, cli.CLR_MUTED, "  [${s} no history]", .{std.mem.trimEnd(u8, &lg, " ")});
+            }
+            try out.print("\n", .{});
+        }
+    }
+
     // Lot counts (stocks/ETFs only)
     var open_lots: u32 = 0;
     var closed_lots: u32 = 0;
@@ -737,9 +770,119 @@ fn testPortfolioData(summary: zfin.valuation.PortfolioSummary, candle_map: std.S
         .summary = summary,
         .candle_map = candle_map,
         .snapshots = null,
+        .day_change = null,
     };
 }
 
+fn testDayChange(priced: zfin.Date, change: f64, covered: usize, priceable: usize, uncovered: f64) zfin.valuation.DayChange {
+    return .{
+        .priced_date = priced,
+        .change = change,
+        .prev_stock_value = 100_000,
+        .curr_stock_value = 100_000 + change,
+        .positions_covered = covered,
+        .positions_priceable = priceable,
+        // Two extra hand-priced positions that can never be day-changed.
+        .positions_total = priceable + 2,
+        .uncovered_value = uncovered,
+    };
+}
+
+test "display: the session change renders labelled by its priced date" {
+    var buf: [8192]u8 = undefined;
+    var lots = [_]zfin.Lot{
+        .{ .symbol = "AAPL", .shares = 10, .open_date = zfin.Date.fromYmd(2023, 1, 15), .open_price = 150.0 },
+    };
+    var portfolio = testPortfolio(&lots);
+    var positions = [_]zfin.Position{
+        .{ .symbol = "AAPL", .shares = 10, .avg_cost = 150.0, .total_cost = 1500.0, .open_lots = 1, .closed_lots = 0, .realized_gain_loss = 0 },
+    };
+    var allocs = [_]zfin.valuation.Allocation{
+        .{ .symbol = "AAPL", .display_symbol = "AAPL", .shares = 10, .avg_cost = 150.0, .current_price = 175.0, .market_value = 1750.0, .cost_basis = 1500.0, .weight = 1.0, .unrealized_gain_loss = 250.0, .unrealized_return = 0.167 },
+    };
+    var candle_map = std.StringHashMap([]const zfin.Candle).init(testing.allocator);
+    defer candle_map.deinit();
+    var watch_prices = std.StringHashMap(f64).init(testing.allocator);
+    defer watch_prices.deinit();
+    const today = zfin.Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 27);
+
+    // Priced yesterday -> "Yesterday", and the figure is comma-grouped.
+    {
+        var w: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+        var pf_data = testPortfolioData(testSummary(&allocs), candle_map);
+        pf_data.day_change = testDayChange(today.addDays(-1), -7180.04, 3, 3, 0);
+        try display(testing.allocator, &w, false, "p.srf", &portfolio, &positions, &pf_data, &.{}, watch_prices, today, .hide);
+        const out = w.buffered();
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, out, "Yesterday: -$7,180.04") != null);
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, out, "Day:") == null);
+        // Every POSSIBLE position covered -> no marker, even though two
+        // hand-priced holdings are absent from the figure. This is the
+        // headline behaviour: an impossible gap must not nag.
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, out, "no history") == null);
+    }
+
+    // Priced today -> "Day", positive sign, and a partial-coverage marker.
+    {
+        var w: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+        var pf_data = testPortfolioData(testSummary(&allocs), candle_map);
+        pf_data.day_change = testDayChange(today, 12345.67, 18, 21, 1_200_000);
+        try display(testing.allocator, &w, false, "p.srf", &portfolio, &positions, &pf_data, &.{}, watch_prices, today, .hide);
+        const out = w.buffered();
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, out, "Day: +$12,345.67") != null);
+        // A real gap reports how much value it is short by, not a count.
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, out, "[$1.2M no history]") != null);
+    }
+
+    // Marker scales: the `k` tier matters, or a $308k gap would render as
+    // an uninformative "$0.3M".
+    {
+        var w: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+        var pf_data = testPortfolioData(testSummary(&allocs), candle_map);
+        pf_data.day_change = testDayChange(today, 500.0, 2, 3, 308_408.77);
+        try display(testing.allocator, &w, false, "p.srf", &portfolio, &positions, &pf_data, &.{}, watch_prices, today, .hide);
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, w.buffered(), "[$308k no history]") != null);
+    }
+    // Sub-thousand gap: plain dollars, no suffix.
+    {
+        var w: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+        var pf_data = testPortfolioData(testSummary(&allocs), candle_map);
+        pf_data.day_change = testDayChange(today, 500.0, 2, 3, 640.0);
+        try display(testing.allocator, &w, false, "p.srf", &portfolio, &positions, &pf_data, &.{}, watch_prices, today, .hide);
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, w.buffered(), "[$640 no history]") != null);
+    }
+
+    // Older than yesterday -> the date itself, so a stale cache can't
+    // masquerade as today's move.
+    {
+        var w: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+        var pf_data = testPortfolioData(testSummary(&allocs), candle_map);
+        pf_data.day_change = testDayChange(zfin.Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 21), 100.0, 3, 3, 0);
+        try display(testing.allocator, &w, false, "p.srf", &portfolio, &positions, &pf_data, &.{}, watch_prices, today, .hide);
+        const out = w.buffered();
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, out, "2026-08-21: +$100.00") != null);
+    }
+
+    // Nothing priced -> the line is suppressed rather than showing $0.00.
+    {
+        var w: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+        var pf_data = testPortfolioData(testSummary(&allocs), candle_map);
+        pf_data.day_change = testDayChange(today, 0, 0, 3, 0);
+        try display(testing.allocator, &w, false, "p.srf", &portfolio, &positions, &pf_data, &.{}, watch_prices, today, .hide);
+        const out = w.buffered();
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, out, "Day:") == null);
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, out, "Yesterday:") == null);
+    }
+
+    // Absent entirely (candles worker never landed) -> also suppressed.
+    {
+        var w: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
+        var pf_data = testPortfolioData(testSummary(&allocs), candle_map);
+        try display(testing.allocator, &w, false, "p.srf", &portfolio, &positions, &pf_data, &.{}, watch_prices, today, .hide);
+        const out = w.buffered();
+        try testing.expect(std.mem.indexOf(u8, out, "Day:") == null);
+    }
+}
+
 test "display shows header and summary" {
     var buf: [8192]u8 = undefined;
     var w: std.Io.Writer = .fixed(&buf);
diff --git a/src/format.zig b/src/format.zig
index 7d5b8ab..21af11e 100644
--- a/src/format.zig
+++ b/src/format.zig
@@ -943,11 +943,20 @@ pub fn fmtCandleRow(buf: []u8, candle: Candle) []const u8 {
 }
 
 /// Format a price change with sign: "+$3.50 (+2.04%)" or "-$3.50 (-2.04%)".
+///
+/// The dollar part goes through `Money`, so it is comma-grouped
+/// ("+$12,345.67"). That is invisible for per-share moves, which is what the
+/// quote views use it for, and necessary for portfolio-scale figures like
+/// the header's session change - hence one helper rather than two.
+///
+/// `pct` is a whole percent (2.04 means 2.04%) and is expected to carry its
+/// own sign when negative; the explicit "+" is added only on the positive
+/// branch, matching the sign already on the dollar figure.
 pub fn fmtPriceChange(buf: []u8, change: f64, pct: f64) []const u8 {
     if (change >= 0) {
-        return std.fmt.bufPrint(buf, "+${d:.2} (+{d:.2}%)", .{ change, pct }) catch "?";
+        return std.fmt.bufPrint(buf, "{f} (+{d:.2}%)", .{ Money.from(change).signed(), pct }) catch "?";
     } else {
-        return std.fmt.bufPrint(buf, "-${d:.2} ({d:.2}%)", .{ -change, pct }) catch "?";
+        return std.fmt.bufPrint(buf, "{f} ({d:.2}%)", .{ Money.from(change).signed(), pct }) catch "?";
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/portfolio_loader.zig b/src/portfolio_loader.zig
index 3aa19c6..14f7160 100644
--- a/src/portfolio_loader.zig
+++ b/src/portfolio_loader.zig
@@ -525,6 +525,12 @@ pub const PortfolioData = struct {
     summary: zfin.valuation.PortfolioSummary,
     candle_map: std.StringHashMap([]const zfin.Candle),
     snapshots: ?[6]zfin.valuation.HistoricalSnapshot,
+    /// The equity portfolio's move over the session the prices belong to.
+    /// Null when no held symbol has candle history to derive a prior close
+    /// from. Keyed on the newest candle date rather than on `as_of`, so a
+    /// weekend or stale-cache run reports the last real session instead of
+    /// a $0.00 day - see `valuation.DayChange`.
+    day_change: ?zfin.valuation.DayChange,
 
     pub fn deinit(self: *PortfolioData, allocator: std.mem.Allocator) void {
         self.summary.deinit(allocator);
@@ -534,6 +540,24 @@ pub const PortfolioData = struct {
     }
 };
 
+/// Newest candle date across every symbol with history, or null when none
+/// has any.
+///
+/// This is the "what session are the current prices from" question for the
+/// candle-close pricing path: the answer is the most recent bar anyone has,
+/// which during a trading day is usually the PREVIOUS session's. Symbols
+/// with an empty slice are skipped rather than treated as day zero.
+fn newestCandleDate(candle_map: std.StringHashMap([]const zfin.Candle)) ?zfin.Date {
+    var newest: ?zfin.Date = null;
+    var it = candle_map.valueIterator();
+    while (it.next()) |cs| {
+        if (cs.*.len == 0) continue;
+        const d = cs.*[cs.*.len - 1].date;
+        if (newest == null or newest.?.lessThan(d)) newest = d;
+    }
+    return newest;
+}
+
 /// Build portfolio summary, candle map, and historical snapshots from
 /// pre-populated prices. Shared between CLI `portfolio` command, TUI
 /// `loadPortfolioData`, and TUI `reloadPortfolioFile`.
@@ -583,13 +607,25 @@ pub fn buildPortfolioData(
         as_of,
         positions,
         prices.*,
+        manual_price_set,
         candle_map,
     );
 
+    // Session change. The priced date is the newest candle date across the
+    // holdings, NOT `as_of`: this path prices from candle closes, so on a
+    // Tuesday mid-session the newest bar is Monday's and the figure is
+    // Monday's completed move. Anchoring to `as_of` would compare Monday's
+    // close against itself over a weekend and report nothing moved.
+    const day_change: ?zfin.valuation.DayChange = if (newestCandleDate(candle_map)) |priced|
+        zfin.valuation.computeDayChange(priced, positions, portfolio.lots, prices.*, manual_price_set, candle_map)
+    else
+        null;
+
     return .{
         .summary = summary,
         .candle_map = candle_map,
         .snapshots = snapshots,
+        .day_change = day_change,
     };
 }
 
@@ -799,6 +835,37 @@ fn dupeBytes(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, datas: []const []const u8) ![]const [
     return owned;
 }
 
+test "newestCandleDate: picks the max, skips empty, null on nothing" {
+    const a = testing.allocator;
+    const mk = struct {
+        fn c(d: zfin.Date) zfin.Candle {
+            return .{ .date = d, .open = 1, .high = 1, .low = 1, .close = 1, .adj_close = 1, .volume = 1 };
+        }
+    }.c;
+
+    var empty = std.StringHashMap([]const zfin.Candle).init(a);
+    defer empty.deinit();
+    try testing.expectEqual(@as(?zfin.Date, null), newestCandleDate(empty));
+
+    // A symbol present but with no bars must not read as day zero.
+    var only_blank = std.StringHashMap([]const zfin.Candle).init(a);
+    defer only_blank.deinit();
+    try only_blank.put("ABC", &.{});
+    try testing.expectEqual(@as(?zfin.Date, null), newestCandleDate(only_blank));
+
+    // Max across symbols, regardless of insertion order. A mutual fund
+    // lagging a day behind must not drag the reference date backwards.
+    const stale = [_]zfin.Candle{ mk(zfin.Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 24)), mk(zfin.Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 25)) };
+    const fresh = [_]zfin.Candle{ mk(zfin.Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 25)), mk(zfin.Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 26)) };
+    var m = std.StringHashMap([]const zfin.Candle).init(a);
+    defer m.deinit();
+    try m.put("FUNDX", &stale);
+    try m.put("ABC", &fresh);
+    try m.put("NOHIST", &.{});
+    const got = newestCandleDate(m) orelse return error.TestUnexpectedResult;
+    try testing.expect(got.eql(zfin.Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 26)));
+}
+
 test "loadFromBytes: union of two synthetic SRF files" {
     const allocator = testing.allocator;
 
diff --git a/src/tui/portfolio_tab.zig b/src/tui/portfolio_tab.zig
index ac420ef..69dba6d 100644
--- a/src/tui/portfolio_tab.zig
+++ b/src/tui/portfolio_tab.zig
@@ -1614,26 +1614,124 @@ fn computeFilteredTotals(state: *const State, app: *const App) FilteredTotals {
 /// fetch instant - and flag it when the market was closed at that
 /// moment, so a weekend/after-hours refresh no longer implies live
 /// intraday data. Otherwise fall back to the candle close date.
-fn appendAsOfLine(arena: std.mem.Allocator, lines: *std.ArrayList(StyledLine), app: *App) !void {
-    const th = app.theme;
+/// The "(as of ...)" provenance stamp, or null when there is nothing to
+/// say. Returned without a leading indent so callers can either emit it as
+/// its own line or append it to one.
+fn asOfText(arena: std.mem.Allocator, app: *App) !?[]const u8 {
     if (app.portfolio.live_prices_applied) {
         if (app.portfolio.live_quotes_at_s) |ts| {
             var clk: [16]u8 = undefined;
             const stamp = zfin.market.fmtClockET(&clk, ts);
-            const text = if (zfin.market.marketSession(ts) != .open)
-                try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "  (as of {s}, market closed)", .{stamp})
+            return if (zfin.market.marketSession(ts) != .open)
+                try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "(as of {s}, market closed)", .{stamp})
             else
-                try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "  (as of {s})", .{stamp});
-            try lines.append(arena, .{ .text = text, .style = th.mutedStyle() });
-        } else {
-            // Live overlay applied but no fetch timestamp was threaded
-            // (defensive fallback).
-            try lines.append(arena, .{ .text = "  (as of intraday quote today)", .style = th.mutedStyle() });
+                try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "(as of {s})", .{stamp});
         }
-    } else if (app.portfolio.latest_quote_date) |d| {
-        const asof_text = try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "  (as of close on {f})", .{d});
-        try lines.append(arena, .{ .text = asof_text, .style = th.mutedStyle() });
+        // Live overlay applied but no fetch timestamp was threaded
+        // (defensive fallback).
+        return "(as of intraday quote today)";
     }
+    if (app.portfolio.latest_quote_date) |d| {
+        return try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "(as of close on {f})", .{d});
+    }
+    return null;
+}
+
+fn appendAsOfLine(arena: std.mem.Allocator, lines: *std.ArrayList(StyledLine), app: *App) !void {
+    const th = app.theme;
+    if (try asOfText(arena, app)) |t| {
+        const text = try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "  {s}", .{t});
+        try lines.append(arena, .{ .text = text, .style = th.mutedStyle() });
+    }
+}
+
+/// Widest the Day line may get before the provenance stamp is spilled onto
+/// its own line. Lines are hard-truncated rather than wrapped, so this is a
+/// real ceiling, not a preference. 78 leaves a little slack inside the
+/// classic 80-column terminal.
+const day_line_budget: usize = 78;
+
+/// Label for the session-change line: what the figure actually describes.
+/// "Day" only when the priced date really is today - otherwise "Yesterday",
+/// or the date itself when it is older still (a weekend, a holiday, or a
+/// stale cache). Never claims to be today's move when it isn't.
+fn dayChangeLabel(arena: std.mem.Allocator, dc: zfin.valuation.DayChange, today: zfin.Date) ![]const u8 {
+    return switch (dc.recency(today)) {
+        .today => "Day",
+        .yesterday => "Yesterday",
+        .older => try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "{f}", .{dc.priced_date}),
+    };
+}
+
+/// Whether the provenance stamp still fits on the session-change line.
+/// `+ 2` is the two-space separator before it.
+fn dayLineFitsStamp(fig_end: usize, tail_len: usize, stamp_len: usize) bool {
+    return fig_end + tail_len + 2 + stamp_len <= day_line_budget;
+}
+
+/// Append the session-change ("Day") line, and report whether it absorbed
+/// the provenance stamp so the caller can skip emitting it separately.
+///
+/// Label tracks what the figure actually describes rather than assuming
+/// today: streaming intraday it is "Day", but with prices from the last
+/// close it is "Yesterday", and over a weekend or a stale cache it names
+/// the date outright. See `valuation.DayChange` for why the underlying
+/// figure keys on the priced date.
+///
+/// The dollar/percent run is coloured by sign; the label, the coverage
+/// marker and the stamp stay muted, so the eye lands on the number.
+fn appendDayChangeLine(
+    arena: std.mem.Allocator,
+    lines: *std.ArrayList(StyledLine),
+    app: *App,
+    total_value: f64,
+) !bool {
+    const th = app.theme;
+    const dc = app.portfolio.dayChange() orelse return false;
+    if (!dc.hasData()) return false;
+
+    const label = try dayChangeLabel(arena, dc, app.today);
+
+    var fig_buf: [64]u8 = undefined;
+    const figure = fmt.fmtPriceChange(&fig_buf, dc.change, dc.pctOfAccount(total_value) * 100.0);
+
+    const head = try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "  {s}: ", .{label});
+    // Byte offsets of the coloured run, for the alt-style span.
+    const fig_start = head.len;
+    const fig_end = fig_start + figure.len;
+
+    var tail: []const u8 = "";
+    if (!dc.complete()) {
+        // Only a FIXABLE gap gets a marker - a security that should have had
+        // a daily series and didn't. Hand-priced holdings are excluded from
+        // `positions_priceable` upstream, so they never light this;
+        // otherwise it would be permanently on and get tuned out. Dollars
+        // rather than a count, because two missing securities could be $3k
+        // or $3M and only one of those is ignorable.
+        const lg = fmt.fmtLargeNumOpts(dc.uncovered_value, .{ .thousands = true });
+        tail = try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "  [${s} no history]", .{std.mem.trimEnd(u8, &lg, " ")});
+    }
+
+    const stamp = try asOfText(arena, app);
+    var absorbed = false;
+    var stamp_part: []const u8 = "";
+    if (stamp) |t| {
+        if (dayLineFitsStamp(fig_end, tail.len, t.len)) {
+            stamp_part = try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "  {s}", .{t});
+            absorbed = true;
+        }
+    }
+
+    const text = try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "{s}{s}{s}{s}", .{ head, figure, tail, stamp_part });
+    const fig_style = if (dc.change >= 0) th.positiveStyle() else th.negativeStyle();
+    try lines.append(arena, .{
+        .text = text,
+        .style = th.mutedStyle(),
+        .alt_style = fig_style,
+        .alt_start = fig_start,
+        .alt_end = fig_end,
+    });
+    return absorbed;
 }
 
 pub fn drawContent(state: *State, app: *App, arena: std.mem.Allocator, buf: []vaxis.Cell, width: u16, height: u16) !void {
@@ -1698,8 +1796,13 @@ pub fn drawContent(state: *State, app: *App, arena: std.mem.Allocator, buf: []va
             const summary_style = if (s.unrealized_gain_loss >= 0) th.positiveStyle() else th.negativeStyle();
             try lines.append(arena, .{ .text = summary_text, .style = summary_style });
 
-            // "as of" date indicator
-            try appendAsOfLine(arena, &lines, app);
+            // Session change, with the "as of" stamp folded in when it
+            // fits. Only the unfiltered view for now - the filtered path
+            // maintains its own totals and has no per-account day change.
+            const day_absorbed_asof = try appendDayChangeLine(arena, &lines, app, s.total_value);
+
+            // "as of" date indicator, unless the Day line already carries it
+            if (!day_absorbed_asof) try appendAsOfLine(arena, &lines, app);
 
             // Net Worth line (only if portfolio has illiquid assets)
             if (app.portfolio.file) |pf| {
@@ -2737,6 +2840,57 @@ fn applyAccountPickerSelection(state: *State, app: *App) void {
 
 const testing = std.testing;
 
+fn tdc(priced: zfin.Date, change: f64, covered: usize, total: usize) zfin.valuation.DayChange {
+    return .{
+        .priced_date = priced,
+        .change = change,
+        .prev_stock_value = 100_000,
+        .curr_stock_value = 100_000 + change,
+        .positions_covered = covered,
+        .positions_priceable = total,
+        .positions_total = total,
+        .uncovered_value = 0,
+    };
+}
+
+test "dayChangeLabel: never claims 'Day' for a session that isn't today" {
+    var arena_state = std.heap.ArenaAllocator.init(testing.allocator);
+    defer arena_state.deinit();
+    const a = arena_state.allocator();
+    const today = zfin.Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 27);
+
+    try testing.expectEqualStrings("Day", try dayChangeLabel(a, tdc(today, 1, 1, 1), today));
+    try testing.expectEqualStrings("Yesterday", try dayChangeLabel(a, tdc(today.addDays(-1), 1, 1, 1), today));
+    // A weekend or stale cache names the date rather than implying today.
+    try testing.expectEqualStrings("2026-08-21", try dayChangeLabel(a, tdc(zfin.Date.fromYmd(2026, 8, 21), 1, 1, 1), today));
+}
+
+test "dayLineFitsStamp: the stamp is folded in only when it fits" {
+    const close_stamp = "(as of close on 2026-08-26)".len; // 27, the longest
+    const live_stamp = "(as of 3:42 PM ET)".len; // 18
+    const marker = "  [18/21 priced]".len; // 16
+
+    // The realistic case, measured from actual output: "  Yesterday: " (13)
+    // + "-$7,180.04 (-0.08%)" (19) = 32. Everything fits, even with the
+    // coverage marker AND the longest stamp (32+16+2+27 = 77).
+    try testing.expect(dayLineFitsStamp(32, 0, close_stamp));
+    try testing.expect(dayLineFitsStamp(32, 0, live_stamp));
+    try testing.expect(dayLineFitsStamp(32, marker, close_stamp));
+    try testing.expect(dayLineFitsStamp(32, marker, live_stamp));
+
+    // An eight-figure move on a dated label overflows, so the stamp spills
+    // to its own line rather than being silently truncated off the end:
+    // "  2026-08-21: " (14) + "-$12,345,678.90 (-12.34%)" (25) = 39,
+    // + 16 + 2 + 27 = 84.
+    try testing.expect(!dayLineFitsStamp(39, marker, close_stamp));
+    // Dropping the marker brings it back under (39+2+27 = 68).
+    try testing.expect(dayLineFitsStamp(39, 0, close_stamp));
+
+    // Boundary: exactly the budget fits, one more does not.
+    try testing.expect(dayLineFitsStamp(0, 0, day_line_budget - 2));
+    try testing.expect(!dayLineFitsStamp(0, 0, day_line_budget - 1));
+}
+
 test "PortfolioSortField next/prev" {
     // next from first field
     try testing.expectEqual(PortfolioSortField.shares, PortfolioSortField.symbol.next().?);