Accounts Window

Brief

The article describes the Accounts window and its components.

Details

The Accounts window contains all information pertaining to your account.

• Account provides the account unique ID number.
• Balance provides the value of the account's funds without profits and losses of its open positions. Note: By default, this column is hidden, but it can be shown. For more information, see Show/Hide Columns.
• Equity provides the "floating" value of the account's funds including profits and losses of its open positions. If you close all open positions, Equity becomes the account's Balance.
• Day P/L provides the profit and loss of one day trading session. The provided amounts result only from the trading activity, not from deposits and withdrawals. You can keep track of your trading session profits and losses without running the reports.
• Used Mr (Used Margin) provides the amount of the account equity currently allocated to maintain open positions. You can think of Used Margin as of the trader's collateral for the open positions. The account must maintain at least this amount for the open positions to remain open. For example, you have $500,000 (5 lots) in open positions and your margin requirement is $5,000. This amount is provided in the Used Margin Column and it remains unchanged until a new position is opened or an existing position is closed.
• Usable Mr (Usable Margin) provides the amount of the account equity that is not used in trading. You can think of Usable Margin as of two things:
• Usable Mr, % (Usable Margin, %) provides the percentage of the available equity that the usable margin constitutes at the moment. This enables you to track your margin in the real time mode.
  The data in the Usable margin column is colored in accordance with the percentage of the remaining margin: if it is above 30 percent, the data is green, if it is between 10 and 30 percent, the data is yellow, and if it is below 10 percent, the data is red.
• Used Maint Mr (Used Maintenance Margin) provides the amount of equity currently being used to maintain open positions. If Equity falls below this amount, Maintenance Margin Warning appears.
• Usable Maint Mr (Usable Maintenance Margin) provides the amount of equity currently not being used to maintain open positions. If this value falls below zero, Maintenance Margin Warning appears.
• Usable Maint Mr, % (Usable Maintenance Margin, %) provides the Usable Margin as percentage of Equity. If this value falls below zero, Maintenance Margin Warning appears.
• Gross P/L provides the floating profit or loss of all positions opened on the account. The profit or loss is expressed in the account currency.
• Margin Call signals whether the account is in the margin call status or not. When Y (Yes) appears on the account line, it means that the usable margin reached zero and all your open positions on the account have been closed due to the insufficient funds.
• Margin Call Date provides the date and time when Margin Call status was updated.
  Note: The information is shown only if an account is under margin call (Warning Status).
• Time Until Liquidation provides the time remaining until liquidation presented as a countdown timer. Also, the top menu bar is populated with the time remaining until liquidation presented as a countdown timer if at least one of your accounts is under margin call (Warning Status).
  Note: The column is shown only if an account is under margin call (Warning Status).
• Type provides the type of the account. If the value is Y, the account has hedging capability.

If you have multiple accounts, you can see all the information about trading on each account in a separate window. To do so, right-click the account line, and then click Show Details.

Profit/Loss Recalculation Timeout

By default, the values of Equity, Day P/L, Usable Mr (Usable Margin), Gross P/L, and Usable Mr, % (Usable Margin, %) are recalculated each time when the price of a symbol, in which you have open positions, is changed. But a great number of open positions (more than a thousand) with taking into the consideration the overall performance of your computer may cause the computer to slow down. In this case, you can use a profit/loss recalculation timeout. The 5, 10, and 15 seconds timeouts can be set.

To set the profit/loss recalculation timeout

1. On the System menu, click Options.
2. In the Options dialog box, under Trading settings, click General Trading.
3. Click Recalculate P/L by timeout, and then select the timeout of your choice.

To disable the profit/loss recalculation timeout

• Repeat the steps provided above, and set the Recalculate P/L by timeout option to No.

Copy Data from Table

To copy all data from the table

• Right-click in the table, and then click Copy All or press CTRL + A.

To copy selected rows from the table

1. In the table, highlight the rows you want to copy, right-click in the selected rows, and then click Copy Selected.
2. A message appears asking whether the table header should be copied or not.
3. Click Yes or No.

Note: By selecting the Don't ask again check box, you choose to copy or not to copy the table header every time you use the command in the future. To make the message appear again, in Trading Station, on the System menu, click Options. In the Options dialog box that appears, under Trading Settings, click Confirmations. In the right-hand panel click the Table header tab, and then in the Copy table header box, click the arrow. In the menu that opens, click Ask for Confirmation. You can also select to click Copy or Don't copy. Then the selected option will be used every time you use the command in the future.