Account Balances Window Overview

You can use the Account Balance window to view information about the buying power of your accounts. You can view information such as:

To view the Account Balances window, click the

button from the Ultimate Trader main window.

The following table contains a description of each field on the Balance window:

Field Name	Description
Account ID	Account name used for transactions
Average	The Average value is the realized profit and loss divided by the total number of shares that have been traded (realized profit and loss / total number shares traded)
Beginning Day Trading BP	Beginning Day Trading Buying Power For marginable securities, the Day Trading Buying Power is the amount that can be day traded at one time on a given day. A day trade occurs whenever a position is bought and sold, or sold and repurchased, over the same day. As long as a day trade is closed out (completed), you may use the day trading buying power to day trade repeatedly throughout the day. For non-marginable securities, you can use only one half of the buying power.
Beginning Overnight BP	Beginning Overnight Buying Power For marginable securities, the Beginning Overnight BP indicates the funds available for purchasing (or selling short) marginable positions to be held in the account overnight. For non-marginable securities, you must remember to use one half of the Buying Power provided.
Cash Balance	Contains the cash balance in your account. The amount of money in your margin account is usually based on a multiple of this amount.
Current DTBP	Current day trading buying power. For marginable securities, the Current Day Trading BP represents the funds that remain for day trading purposes. For non-marginable securities, you can use only one half of the remaining buying power.
Current ONBP	Current overnight buying power. For marginable securities, the Current ONBP indicates the funds available for purchasing (or selling short) marginable positions to be held in the account overnight. For non-marginable securities, you must remember to use one half of the Buying Power provided.
Liq Added	Indicates the total number of shares that added liquidity to an ECN.
Live Orders	Indicates the number of Live orders for each account.
Margin Balance	Remaining margin balance.
Matched Delta Equity	Total profit and loss for closed positions based on the previous days price.
Matched P&L	The profit or loss realized on all positions that are closed out today. This includes both overnight positions and new positions opened earlier in the day (day trades).
MAverage	MAverage is the unrealized profit and loss divided by the total number of shares in open positions. (unrealized profit and loss / total shares in open positions)
Total Delta Equity	Total profit and loss for all positions based on the previous days price
Total Equity	Indicates the total equity of the account
Total P&L	Contains the matched and unmatched P&L total for the trading day.
Total Shares Today	Indicates the total number of shares traded today.
Unmatched Delta Equity	Total profit and loss for all positions based on the previous days price.
Unmatched P&L	Contains the total amount of unrealized profit and loss