Introduction

Requests can be made to receive real time updates about the daily P&L and unrealized P&L for an account, or for individual positions. Financial Advisors can also request P&L figures for ‘All’ subaccounts, or for a portfolio model. This is further extended to include realized P&L information at the account or individual position level.

The P&L API functions demonstrated below return the data which is displayed in the TWS Portfolio Window in current versions of TWS. As such, the P&L values are calculated based on the reset schedule specified in TWS Global Configuration (by default an instrument-specific reset schedule) and this setting affects values sent to the associated API functions as well. Also in TWS, P&L data from virtual forex positions will be included in the account P&L if and only if the Virtual Fx section of the Account Window is expanded.

See Account Updates for alternative PnL data.