The Summary Dialog Box

The Summary Dialog Box

The Summary dialog box keeps track of your portfolio’s cash balance. You provide an initial cash balance and update deposit and withdrawal amounts when you make them, and the Summary screen keeps tabs on how your trading activities affect the account. To display the Summary dialog box, select Summary from the Book menu.

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The Summary dialog box has only four accessible fields: Initial Equity, Cash Deposits, and Cash Withdrawals, and Deleted Trades.

The Initial Balance field sets a cash amount that serves as the account’s “opening balance.”

The Cash Deposits field is an accumulator that keeps a running total of all deposits (excluding, of course, the initial deposit, or initial balance).

The Cash Withdrawals field is also an accumulator. Use the Cash Withdrawals to track cash you remove from the account.

The Deleted Trades field keeps track of profit and loss in deleted trades (trades that you have closed and subsequently deleted).

Field
Function
Initial Equity
Initial account balance.
Cash Deposits
Cash deposits is an accumulator. Any deposit is added to the current number. If the amount is zero, and you add 1000, the number changes to 1000; if you then add 100, the number changes to 1100, and so on. The value in this field serves as a credit to the account.
Cash Withdrawals
Cash withdrawals is an accumulator, so it behaves the same way the Cash Deposits field does. The value in this field serves as a debit to the account.

Data
Sub-Category
Meaning
Realized P&L
Underlying
Profit from closed positions involving underlying instruments.

Options
Profit from closed positions involving options.

Deleted Trades
Profits from closed positions that have been deleted. Normally, you will not have to change this value. Once a closed trade has been deleted, this is the only record of the profit and loss from the trades you deleted.
Commissions Charged
NA
Total commissions charged. Commissions charged are those commissions which you have paid; this value is dependent on the commissions type you apply to options, futures, stocks, and other instruments (see, Commissions, page 13).
Cash Balance
NA
Indicates the amount of cash available in the account. Cash Balance is the sum of Initial Equity, Cash Deposits, and Realized Profit and Loss, less Cash Withdrawals.
Open Position P&L
Underlying
Indicates the amount of profit in all open positions in underlying instruments. This value indicates what your profit would be if you closed all open positions right now.

Options
Indicates the amount of profit in all open positions in options. This value indicates what your profit would be if you closed all open positions right now.
Net Liquidating Value
NA
NLV is the sum of your Cash Balance and your Open Profit and Loss.
Open Trade Equity
Underlying
The value in the contract field indicates the value of positions in underlying instruments that have a settlement behavior like that of futures contracts (where cash up-front is not required). By contrast the value in the cash field indicates the value of positions in underlying instruments that require cash up front (i.e., stocks).

Options
The value in the contract field indicates the value of positions in options that have a settlement behavior like that of futures contracts (where cash up-front is not required). By contrast the value in the cash field indicates the value of positions in options that require cash up front.
Totals
NA
Indicates total contract and cash values for underlying instruments and options.

Field	Function
Initial Equity	Initial account balance.
Cash Deposits	Cash deposits is an accumulator. Any deposit is added to the current number. If the amount is zero, and you add 1000, the number changes to 1000; if you then add 100, the number changes to 1100, and so on. The value in this field serves as a credit to the account.
Cash Withdrawals	Cash withdrawals is an accumulator, so it behaves the same way the Cash Deposits field does. The value in this field serves as a debit to the account.

Data	Sub-Category	Meaning
Realized P&L	Underlying	Profit from closed positions involving underlying instruments.
	Options	Profit from closed positions involving options.
	Deleted Trades	Profits from closed positions that have been deleted. Normally, you will not have to change this value. Once a closed trade has been deleted, this is the only record of the profit and loss from the trades you deleted.
Commissions Charged	NA	Total commissions charged. Commissions charged are those commissions which you have paid; this value is dependent on the commissions type you apply to options, futures, stocks, and other instruments (see, Commissions, page 13).
Cash Balance	NA	Indicates the amount of cash available in the account. Cash Balance is the sum of Initial Equity, Cash Deposits, and Realized Profit and Loss, less Cash Withdrawals.
Open Position P&L	Underlying	Indicates the amount of profit in all open positions in underlying instruments. This value indicates what your profit would be if you closed all open positions right now.
	Options	Indicates the amount of profit in all open positions in options. This value indicates what your profit would be if you closed all open positions right now.
Net Liquidating Value	NA	NLV is the sum of your Cash Balance and your Open Profit and Loss.
Open Trade Equity	Underlying	The value in the contract field indicates the value of positions in underlying instruments that have a settlement behavior like that of futures contracts (where cash up-front is not required). By contrast the value in the cash field indicates the value of positions in underlying instruments that require cash up front (i.e., stocks).
	Options	The value in the contract field indicates the value of positions in options that have a settlement behavior like that of futures contracts (where cash up-front is not required). By contrast the value in the cash field indicates the value of positions in options that require cash up front.
Totals	NA	Indicates total contract and cash values for underlying instruments and options.