Portfolio

Not just what you hold, but which rule is holding it

Your broker nets everything into one line per symbol. That is correct for a broker and useless for deciding which rule to switch off.

What the broker reports
NVDA300@ 179.40+$2,457.00
What it is actually made of
  • Trend following120@ 171.20+$984.00
  • Mean reversion60@ 182.05−$159.00
  • Opened by hand120@ 165.80+$1,632.00

Quantities sum to the broker line. Each row is valued from its own average cost against one shared mark, so three rules holding the same symbol report three different results rather than the same one three times.

Illustrative data. The instrument, prices, strikes, expiry and figures shown are examples chosen to show how the product works. They are not live market data, not a trade, not an opinion about any instrument, and not a recommendation.

Every account, one view

The balances are read where they actually sit

Each connection reports its own balance, what it covers, and when it last answered. Nothing is netted into a single number that hides which venue it came from.

Three connected exchange cards side by side, each with its balance, a live or paper badge, the time it last synced and the asset classes it supports.
Two live connections and one paper account, each with the time it last answered.

The paper badge is not a footnote. A paper connection and a funded one appear in the same list, under the same headings, because the difference between them is the single most important thing to be able to see at a glance, and a product that hides it is one where somebody eventually places a real order believing otherwise.

Two views

One is the truth, the other is the reason

Both are needed and they are not the same number. Showing only one of them is how a position ends up orphaned.

What you hold

Straight from the broker, netted per symbol, including anything you opened by hand or that arrived through an assignment.

Answers: am I exposed, and by how much.

Who opened it

From our own record of what each rule did, split out of the broker line and valued per row.

Answers: which rule is working, and what happens if I stop it.

What keeps it honest

The split has to survive you trading somewhere else

The moment our record and your broker disagree, the second view becomes fiction. So the disagreement is looked for rather than assumed away.

You traded in the broker app

A position that changed outside this platform is detected and the record is brought back in line, rather than drifting until the numbers stop adding up.

Part of it closed

A partial close is not a full one. The quantity is adjusted and the rule keeps managing what is left, instead of the position being marked finished.

An option turned into stock

Assignment and exercise create real stock positions you did not order. They appear as what they are rather than being attributed to whichever rule happens to look closest.

See the split before you need it

Run two rules on the same symbol in a paper account and watch them report separately.