Summary Window

Brief

In this window you can see summarized information about open positions for each traded symbol.

Details

The Summary window provides summarized information about open positions for each traded symbol.

The Summary window sorts all open positions by symbol. When you have multiple positions open for the same symbol, the Summary window automatically compounds these individual trades. This allows multiple tickets of the same symbol to be grouped together to display information regarding average open price and net P/L.

If you have multiple accounts, in this window you can choose to see open positions of one or all your accounts.

• Symbol provides the symbol of the positions.
• P/L Sell provides the profit or loss for the short (sell) positions of the symbol. It is provided in the account currency.
• S Usd Mr provides the amount of the account equity currently allocated to maintain your short positions. You can think of S Usd Mr as of the trader's collateral for the short positions of the symbol. The account must maintain at least this amount for the short positions to remain open.
• S Amt provides the cumulative amount of all your short positions in thousands.
• Avg Sell provides the average open price of your short positions.
• Close Buy provides the current buy (ask) price for your short positions.
• Close Sell provides the current sell (bid) price for your long (buy) positions.
• P/L Buy provides the profit or loss for your long positions. It is provided in the account currency.
• B Usd Mr provides the amount of the account equity currently allocated to maintain your long positions. You can think of B Usd Mr as of the trader's collateral for the long positions of the symbol. The account must maintain at least this amount for the long positions to remain open.
• B Amt provides the cumulative amount of all your long positions in thousands.
• Avg Buy provides the average open price of your long positions.
• Usd Mr provides the amount of the account equity currently allocated to maintain your open positions. You can think of Usd Mr as of the trader's collateral for the open positions of the symbol. The account must maintain at least this amount for the open positions to remain open.
• Amt provides the cumulative amount of all your positions in thousands.
• Gross P/L provides the profit or loss for all your positions. It is provided in the account currency.
• Open Comm provides the amount of commission that has been charged for opening all positions in the symbol. The amount is expressed in the account currency. For details, see the Trading Commissions section.
  
  The column may be hidden if no commission is applicable to the account.
• Close Comm provides the estimated amount of commission to be charged for closing all positions in the symbol. The amount is expressed in the account currency. For details, see the Trading Commissions section.
  
  The column may be hidden if no commission is applicable to the account.
• Roll provides the amount of rollover interest received or paid for the positions on rollover.
• Div provides the amount of dividends accrued on the positions in a CFD symbol. For Forex symbols, the dividends value is always zero. The column is displayed if supported by the server.
• Net P/L provides the amount of current profit or loss of all positions opened in the symbol. The amount includes rollover interest (Roll), commission charged for opening the positions (Open Comm), estimated commission for closing the positions (Close Comm), and dividends (Div). The profit or loss is expressed in the account currency.
  

Profit/Loss Recalculation Timeout

By the default, the values of Gross P/L and Net P/L are recalculated each time when the price of a symbol in which you have opened positions is changed. But a great number of opened 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. On 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.

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

• Select the data of your choice in the table, right-click in the selected data, and then click Copy Selected.
• The dialog box asking whether the table header should be copied appears. Click Yes or No.
  
  Note: By selecting the Don't ask again check box, you choose to copy or not copy the table header every time you use the command in the future. To make the dialog box start to appear again, in FXCM Trading Station, on the System menu, click Options, under Trading Settings, select Confirmations, and then, in the Copy table header box, select Ask for Confirmation.
  Also note that you can select the Copy or Don't copy option, and this option will be used every time you use the command in the future.