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What details are displayed in the account widget? 

The GigaTrader Account widget displays metrics for Equities accounts, most of which are common for other account types:

  • Balance: The current amount of cash in your account.
  • Available Funds: The money you can use right now to make new trades, after accounting for existing positions and margin requirements.
  • Stock Buying Power: The amount you can spend buying stocks, calculated by your
  • Option Buying Power: The amount you can spend buying options (typically equal to your
  • Equity: The total value of your account that can be used as margin collateral. This includes cash and the value of non-option positions, but excludes option premiums.
  • Net Liq: The total amount you would have if you closed all your positions at current market prices - this represents your true account value, including all positions.
  • Market Value Long: The current total value of all your long (buy) positions in stocks and ETFs.
  • Market Value Short: The total current value of all your short positions at market close.
  • Stock Value Long: The current total value of just your long stock positions.
  • Stock Value Short: The current value of your short stock positions (stocks you've borrowed and sold).
  • Option Value Long: The current value of your long option positions.
  • Option Value Short: The current value of your short option positions.
  • Maintenance Excess: How much extra money and equity you have above the minimum required to maintain your current positions (safety buffer for margin trading).
  • Reg-T Excess: How much extra money you have above the Regulation T requirements for margin trading.
  • Initial Margin: The total amount of Initial margin (margin required when you first open your current positions) of your current positions.
  • Maintenance Margin: The minimum amount of money required to keep your current positions open.
  • Equity Level: The Percentage of your account equity is available relative to your margin requirements.
  • Special Memorandum Account: Extra margin credit held in a special SMA account.
        • Unrealized PL: The profit or loss you would make if you closed all your open positions right now (paper gains/losses).
        • Day Realized PL: The actual profit or loss you've made from trades completed today.

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