Portfolio and order list

"Portfolio" window

To display the portfolio, go to the "Trading" menu and select "Portfolio".

  • The upper part of the window displays global information about your portfolio.
  • The lower part displays information about your currently open positions and positions closed during the current day (greyed out lines).

If you have more than one portfolio linked to your ProRealTime platform, the dropdown menu lets you go from one to another.


Column Description
Opens the detailed report of your trading performance for the whole portfolio
Name ProRealTime trading account number
Portfolio Amount in your portfolio, with any latent gains and losses of open possitions added to it.
This information is also displayed at the top of the charts.

If you have positions in several currencies, or if you have liquidity in multiple currencies ("cash to be converted"), this amount is converted in real-time into the base currency of your portfolio, using the current currency conversion rate to calculate portfolio the amount in this column.

Note that if you have "cash to be converted" in other currencies, the value of your portfolio may vary from day to day even if you have no open position - Here is an example.
Liquidity Liquidity available in your portfolio from an accounting perspective.
This information is calculated by adding your "cash", the value of your short selling positions on securities and any latent gains or losses on derivatives.
Note that this information may be different from your liquidity available for trading, notably if you have open positions.
Gain today Cumulative gain or loss since the beginning of the day of all of your positions (open and closed), without taking into account any brokerage fees. To learn more see the section "Gain Today".
Latent gain Latent gain or loss of all of your open positions, without taking brokerage fees into account. To learn more, see the Latent Gain" section.
+/- Stocks,
+/- Forex,
+/- Futures ...		 Latent Gain or loss of your positions per instrument type, without taking brokerage fees into account.
Avail Margin Available funds to keep your positions open.
Avail Initial M Available funds to open new positions
Avail Overnight M Projection of funds available to keep your positions open overnight.
Avail OV Init M Projection of funds to open new positions overnight.
Exposition Total value of your open positions. Example :
  • For stocks : [latest price x position quanitity].
  • For futures : [(latest price x position quantity) x value of one point].
Stock exposure
Forex Exposure,
Exposition Future, ...		 Value of open positions per instrument type.
The base courrency is the euro. Base currency of your portfolio.
Column Description
Opens the chart of the instrument in a new window.
Close position
Opens the detailed report of your performance on this instrument
Opens the equity curve of your gains and losses on this instrument
For "Options" type instruments, opens the option pricer window.
Name Complete instrument name
Code Code or "Ticker" of the instrument.
ISIN ISIN code of the instrument
Market Market or exchange the instrument is traded on
Type Type of instrument (Stock, Future, ETF, Forex, ...).
Qty Position quantity
Unit cost Average unit cost of each instrument - Example
Total cost Total position cost.
This information is available for instruments like stocks and ETFs. Its calculated as : [Average cost] X [Position quantity].
Latent gain1 Latent gain Latent Gain" section.
%Latent P1 Latent profit or loss in % of the position.
Gain today1 Cumulated gain or loss since the beginning of the day of all your positions (open and closed) on this instrument, without taking into account brokerage fees. To learn more, see the section "Gain Today".
Pending buy Number of pending buy orders on this instrument
Pending sell Number of pending sell orders on the instrument
Prev Previous day's close of the instrument
Last Last price of the instrument
%Var Variation % from yesteray's close.
Exposition Position value
Today buy Total quantity bought today for this instrument
Today sell Total quantity sold today for this instrument
Ask Best ask price in the order book
Bid Best bid price in the order book

Cash to be converted

Refer to the section multiple currency account to learn more.




"Order list" window

The order list is divided into several tabs

  • "All" displays all your orders
  • "Executed" only displays the orders which have been exectuted.
  • "Pending" displays orders that are pending and not executed yet (ex: limits and stops that haven't been touched by price yet).
  • "Cancelled/rejected" displays orders you cancelled or that were rejected. In case of a rejection, place your cursor on the icon to see the rejection reason sent by the broker.
  • "Multiple-leg" displays linked orders [ex: triple, OCO, OTO].

In the title bar, the dropdown menu lets you choose the amount of historical data to load and apply a filter. For example if you want to only display your orders on the dax future, you could enter "DAX" as a filter..


Here are the columns available in the different tabs and their meanings:

Column Description
Cancel order (only for pending orders).
Modify order (only for pending orders).
Display order status history (ex: time of palcement/reception/execution).
Date Date and time of last event for this order
Portfolio ProRealTime trading account number
Name Complete instrument name
Code Code or "Ticker" of the instrument.
ISIN ISIN code of the instrument
Market Market or exchange the instrument is traded on
Side Indicates whether the order is to buy or sell
Type Type of order (ex: At market, Limit, Stop...)
Qty Quantity of the order
Validity of the order Validity of the order, after which the order will expire (ex: no limit, end of day, date and time). If an order expires before execution, its considered to be cancelled.
Price Price level of the order (for pending or non executed orders) or execution price for executed orders.
Pos. chg Change of position caused by the execution of an order (ex 0 > 1)
Gain1 Gain or loss, without taking brokerage fees into account (only displayed for orders that close or reduce a position). To learn more check the gain section.
Duration Duration during which the position was kept open (only appears for orders that close or reduce a position).
%Gap For pending orders of type "Horizontal limit" or "Horizontal stop", the percent gap between the order and the latest price.
Order ID Unique order identifier
Limit Price level for "Horizontal limit" orders
Stop Price level for "Horizontal stop" orders
Trail. stop Distance between the price and "Trailing stop" level



Latent gain, Today gain

  • The Gain, Gain today and Latent gain information in the application do not take brokerage fees into account. Brokerage fes are deducted from your portfolio amount after each order executed.
  • Warning : The Gain, Gain today and Latent gain information in the application are estimations calculated by the platform and not binding. Only the information in your account statements are binding.

Latent gain

The "Latent gain" of a position corresponds to the unrealized gain of an open position (not yet closed) :

  • For buying positions : (Bid price** - Position entry price*) × Quantity
  • For selling positions : (Position entry price* - Ask price**) × Quantity

* If you opened a position with several orders, the "unit cost" is used to calculate gains.

** If you don't have access to best bid / ask data in the order book, the last price is used instead.


The "Latent gain" information indicated in the top part of the portfolio corresponds to the cumulative latent gain of all your open positions.

Gain today

"Today's gain" on an instrument corresponds to the cumulative gain or loss on all transactions on the instrument (current and closed) since the beginning of the trading day. It does not take into account brokerage fees :

  • For buying positions :
    • Open the same day and still open: (Bid price** - Position entry price*) × Quantity
    • Open the same day and closed: (Position closing price - Position entry price*) × Quantity
    • Open a previous day and still open: (Bid price** - Previous day close price) × Quantity
    • Open a previous day and closed: (Position closing price - Previous day close) × Quantity
  • For selling positions
    • Open the same day and still open: (Position entry price* - Ask price**) × Quantity
    • Open the same day and closed: (Position entry price* - Position closing price) × Quantity
    • Open a previous day and still open: (Previous day close - Ask price**) × Quantity
    • Open a previous day and closed: (Previous day close - Position closing price) × Quantity

* If you opened a position with several orders, the "unit cost" is used to calculate gains.

** If you don't have access to best bid / ask data in the order book, the last price is used instead.


The "Gain today" information at the top of the portfolio corresponds to your gain on all instruments.

1Warnings


  • The information Gain, Today's gain or latent gain in the application are calculated directly in the platform and are not binding. Only the information in account statements is binding.
  • The Gain, Gain today and Latent gain information in the application do not take brokerage fees into account. Brokerage fes are deducted from your portfolio amount after each order executed.
  • Gain information indicated by the application may be incomplete, notably in the following cases:
    • for positions transfered from another account (the unit cost utilised in this case is calculated from the time the position is transferred)
    • for positions open for more than one year
    • for the cases where you increase then reduce a position size (there are 2 methods to calculate gains in this case)
    • when an instrument has a dividend payout, a name change, split, reverse split or any other corporate event (in this case gain information may be incomplete until the application takes the corporate event intoaccount)
    • when you don't have real-time data access for an instrument on which you have an open position



Impact of the exchange rate on your positions in a "foreign" currency

When you trade an instrument in a different currency than your base currency, during the time your position is open, it's exposed to exchange rate fluctuations.

So, if we want to calculate the P&L in the base currency, we need to take 2 elements into account:

  • Gross gain and losses
  • Evolution of the exchange rate between the currencies, between the moment the position is opened and closed

This information is calculated in the portfolio window in the platform. To display it, place your mouse over the information icon for the concerned position:


See examples