4. Account Window

To bring up the Account window, go to the main menu Trade -> Account. You will see an Account Selection window pop up (Figure 4.1). Select the Accounts you would like to view by checking them and click [OK], and then you will see the Account window come up like Figure 4.2.

Figure 4.1

The Account window keeps track of all the real-time update-to-the-second account information of all the accounts under your domain supervision. Such information includes Account, Average Cost, Value at Risk, Open P&L, Closed P&L, Total P&L, Shares, Tickets, Beginning-of-the-day (BOD) Equity, Current Equity, Buying Power, P&L over Equity Ratio, Leverage Ratio, and Equity Percentage. Profits are green. Loses are red. Long value is in green; Short value is in red. All the information is marked-to-market in a real-time streaming fashion as the market fluctuates. The bar at the bottom of the window shows the aggregate value at risk, aggregate open P&L; aggregate total P&L, and aggregate shares and tickets of the selected accounts.

To view the current positions of a particular account, simply double-click on that account, and then a Portfolio window with all the positions information of that account will pop up.

To sort accounts dynamically by a particular field, you just need to simply click on the title column of that field. First click is for ascending sort; second click is for descending sort.

Figure 4.2