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Viewing your Account Status Report
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To access your account status report, choose the "Status Report" from the "Account" menu in the main menu bar, or click on the "My Account" tab.

The account report tab will be activated where you can select the time frame for your status report. You can choose to generate a report for the day, week, month, quarter or year, as well as since the inception of your account(s). You can also generate customized report for specified dates. Select your desired parameters and click the "Generate Report" button.

The report is broken down into the following four parts: Account Balance, Open Orders, Open Trades, and Settled Trades.

Account Balance

  • Begin Balance - The amount of funds present in the account at the beginning of the requested period.
  • Deposit - All funds placed into the account after the beginning of the requested period.
  • Withdrawal - All funds taken from the account after the beginning of the requested period
  • Adjust - All monetary changes made to the account equity that did not result from deposits, withdrawals, or normal trading activity.
  • Charges - The total amount of all charges to the account after the beginning of the requested period
  • Trade P+/L- The total amount that the account has profited or lost as a result of trading activity, including rollover charges.
  • Current Balance - The amount of funds in the account at the time when report is generated prior to adjustments made for profits and/or losses being associated with open trades.
  • Total Revalue - The profit or losses that would result from all the open trades in the account being liquidated at current market prices.
  • Equity - The Current Balance minus Total Revalue.
  • Used Margin - Total amount of margin being used to support open positions
  • Usable Margin - Amount of margin remaining to place additional trades or to sustain market movements against open positions. Calculated as Equity minus Used Margin.
  • Required margin - Percentage of the numerical value of the Base (first) Currency in a pair required to open and sustain a 1-unit position

Open Orders and Open Trades

The Open Orders and Open Trades sections provide details on every order and trade open on your account at the time when your report is generated

Settled Trades

The Settled Trades section provides information regarding positions that have been liquidated (closed) during the time period covered by the report. The report contains the exact time and reason why the position was closed. There are two possible entries in the reason column: ASKING or MARGIN. Asking means the trade was closed by an action originated by the trader. Margin means that Dealing Desk liquidated the position because of insufficient equity in the account to support the minimum margin requirement demanded by existing orders.