The Current Excess Liquidity figure shows your margin cushion, before liquidation.

• For the Securities segment of your account:  Excess Liquidity = Equity with Loan Value - Maintenance Margin
• For the Commodities segment of your account: Excess Liquidity = Net Liquidation Value - Maintenance Margin…

Overview

This article describes the information provided in the TWS account window for our EU based entity…

You may see discrepancies in Total Cash versus Cash in Base Currency after making a trade in a non-base currency. The reason for the discrepancy is that additional time is needed for settlement to allow trades executed in a non-base currency to convert to the base currency. In order to see your Settled Cash balance, you will need to add the Settled Cash column to your Account Window under the Market Value - Real FX Balance section…

If your TWS settings are set to "Average Cost" instead of "Statement Cost", then the TWS may not always correctly update the average price when an asset you hold goes through a corporate action, a position is opened through multiple trades, or a position is transferred into your account. Your…

To see your actual, real-time currency balances, from the Account window in TWS or the Balances section of the Portfolio in IBKR Desktop, check the Total Cash and Settled Cash fields of the Market Value - Real FX Balance…

The day trades left line item will still appear in a Cash account. However, there are no number values displayed next to that line item in a cash account type.

Note…

You can monitor your margin values in real time using your TWS Account Window by looking at the Margin Requirements and Available for Trading sections:

• In Mosaic, click the Account menu option followed by Account Window
• In Classic TWS…

To view or save your positions into CSV format, first open your Account Window by clicking the Account menu option in TWS followed by Account Window. From there, click the File menu option followed by Export Portfolio. Enter a name for your file and, once finished, click Save. This will work in both a live and paper trading account…

The Available for Trading values show you the state of your account at a glance:

• Available Funds tells you if you can put on a trade.
• Excess Liquidity tells you whether you have sufficient cushion to maintain your current positions…

The Equity With Loan value does not necessarily imply that there is a margin loan on the account.

For detailed information on Equity With Loan value calculation see the TWS Users' Guide…

The Post Expiry Excess is a projected value of your Excess Equity after taking into consideration the effect of option contracts expiring over the next 3 days. Here, maintenance margin is projected on the assumption that expiring option contracts which are in-the-money will be exercised and delivery taken and contracts that are out-of-the-money will expire worthless…

The Account screen is divided into the following sections:

• Balances, which shows your account balances for securities, commodities and in total. These balances do not include margin requirements…

If you cannot adjust the width of the columns in your Account Window, it is because they are currently configured to fit to the window. To change this configuration, click the small wrench icon in the top right corner of the section of the Account Window you are looking at. Choose "Configure Columns" from the drop down menu. At the bottom of the window, uncheck the box that says "Fit columns to window". Click Apply to save your changes and OK to close the window. You can now adjust the width of the columns in that section. Repeat for any other sections you wish to adjust. …

You can monitor your margin values in real-time using several methods provided by Interactive Brokers (IBKR):

1. Trader Workstation (TWS)/Mosaic Account Window:
   1. Access the Account Window in TWS or Mosaic…

In Classic TWS, you can find your SMA (Special Memorandum Account) in the Available for Trading section of your Account window. You can also view SMA on the trading window by adding the Trader's Dashboard…