m. Balances Dropdown Menu (US Options & Futures)

Balances Dropdown Menu

The balances dropdown in the desktop trading platform neatly displays your account balances. View your account's cash balance and other figures such as the total value of long or short US options positions in your portfolio.

Where is the balances dropdown menu?

Click the balances (Bal) button located toward the upper left corner of the trading platform.

What does each line item mean?

Line items displayed are dependent on your account type

The line items you see listed below are dependent on the account type you have. For example, a cash account generally will not have a short equity line item, as cash accounts cannot hold short shares of stock.

Cash: Non-invested cash, as well as cash following a short stock (short equity) sale.

Settled Cash: Settled cash is a static figure representing the start of day settled cash balance from the previous trading day. Since margin interest (borrow charges) is charged from settlement to settlement, a negative settled cash balance will denote when you are borrowing on margin.

Maintenance Excess: Amount of excess cash and/or equity outside of your maintenance margin requirement.

Starting Day Trade Buying Power: Your account's maintenance excess at the close of the previous day (static number).

Long Equity: Amount of long stock shares.

Long Equity Derivatives: Total value of long equity/ US options.

Short Equity Derivatives: Total value of short equity/ US options.

Short Equity: Total value of short equity/shares.