The monetary value beside an account name in Accounts is equity — its hover text confirms it — and it is the number that moves when you take fills or hold an open position. Tradara calculates it from the realized balance returned by the balance service plus any available Open P&L. When no balance record is available yet, that calculation can fall back to the account's initial balance. Everything else on this surface, including Open P&L and Day P&L, is read alongside equity rather than derived from it.
Open P&L is the unrealized result calculated for open positions where instrument metadata and market marks are available. It is a live value that moves with the market, so keep market data connected when an account is holding positions.
Day P&L is the realized day P&L supplied by balance data. It is a separate figure and does not include your open positions.
The distinction matters because of how a missing value behaves: when no open-P&L value is available, the equity calculation uses zero. Equity can therefore look settled while an open position is simply not contributing. Inspect the connection and the position list before relying on it.
The account widget does not expose separate realized-balance, available-funds, or buying-power fields. Do not calculate "available funds" from Equity, and do not read a missing field as permission to place an order.
Whether an order is accepted depends on rules that equity says nothing about: account status, maximum position, daily loss, maximum loss, trailing drawdown, instrument policy, and others. Review the account's displayed loss and position metrics alongside its monetary values. If you need confirmed buying power or available funds, use the limits supplied for the account or ask the issuing firm.
An account's type — simulated, evaluation, simulated-funded, or live — is likewise separate from its displayed values, and simulated values do not represent live funds.
If Open P&L or Equity looks stale with a position open, check MD feed age and market-data connectivity in the footer.
If the account panel shows Failed to load accounts:, use Retry before interpreting anything on screen.
If a recent fill is missing from Day P&L, confirm the selected account and its activity state before refreshing.
