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Trading With J-Trader<br />

Column<br />

Average Price<br />

Buys Average Price<br />

Sells Average Price<br />

Last Traded Price<br />

Open Profit & Loss<br />

Cumulative Profit &<br />

Loss<br />

Total Profit & Loss<br />

Commission<br />

Currency<br />

Margin per Lot<br />

Explanation<br />

Average price for:<br />

position<br />

position’s buys only<br />

position’s sells only.<br />

At the start of day, the average price reflects yesterday’s settlement price.<br />

Last price at which the contract traded.<br />

Current position, namely the average price of the net position against the last-traded price.<br />

If there is no last-traded price, the net position is against today’s settlement price (or,<br />

failing that, yesterday’s).<br />

Net closed position, calculated against the last-traded price.<br />

Complete position, namely Cumulative Profit & Loss + Open Profit & Loss.<br />

This may or may not include any open position from the previous day. Typically,<br />

accounts used by those who don’t want to build positions (eg, brokers and fund managers)<br />

will not include the previous day’s trading, whereas other accounts will.<br />

Total commission paid for trades in this contract, namely commission per lot<br />

multiplied by the number of lots.<br />

Currency of the contract.<br />

Margin required per lot, for this contract and trader account.<br />

% P/L Burn Rate Ratio of P&L to SODNLV.<br />

% Open Position<br />

Exposure<br />

Buying Power<br />

Remaining<br />

Cash Buying Power<br />

Remaining<br />

Net Position Change<br />

On Day<br />

Suppress P & L<br />

Value<br />

Margin Paid<br />

Ratio of required position margin to (SODNLV + P&L).<br />

(SODNLV +/- P&L) less position margin required, expressed as:<br />

a percentage<br />

an actual amount<br />

Compare with Equity, below.<br />

(Pro-Mark only)<br />

Difference between start-of-day position and current net position.<br />

(J-Trader only)<br />

Suppress the display of P&L values.<br />

Total margin that has been paid on this contract and trader account.<br />

Equity<br />

SODNLV +/- P&L.<br />

In other words, like Cash Buying Power Remaining but without allowing for the margin<br />

required.<br />

* SODNLV is ‘start-of-day net liquidity value’, namely the funds available for you to trade with<br />

today.<br />

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