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Date/Time: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:13:21 +0000
Post From: Total P&L Based on Bid/Ask
| [2014-03-17 18:17:37] |
| rwilliams1 - Posts: 346 |
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Thank you, I will try this. However, may I humbly make a suggestion here? I do not in any way want to get in an argument with the programmers over a simple comment, but I think this comment is warranted. Since the end goal of any trading software is to simply increase your account balance, does this not seem like a very convoluted way to get a simple net unrealized trading total that is accurate? Think about this... Anyone who is using SC and has more than one position open or any type of active portfolio with multiple positions, really has no way of knowing what their true accurate unrealized P&L is. There wasn't even a Total Net P&L anywhere in the program until I mentioned it many months ago and it was then finally added to the trading stats page. And now, the only way to get the most basic of functions is to create a spreadsheet for every instrument I have open, and create a formula for each just to get an accurate P&L? Obviously, this is a cumbersome way to get an accurate account balance for such a powerful program. For instance, what if I have a portfolio of 20 different stocks? Do I have to create and attach 20 different spreadsheets to each chart and then continually sum them up in a separate spreadsheet as I add new instruments? All of this just to tell me how much money I am making... Just doesn't seem right. In my opinion, this is not a minor programming oversight. This speaks to the very heart of what a trading program is suppose to do. Accurately tell me how much money I am making at any time! So I am hoping you all would consider a simpler way of reporting and aggregating the open positions so that customers do not have to jump through this many hurdles to get a simple accurate account balance. Once again, this email is not meant to offend (as I know the programmers can get very defensive), I just wanted to state the obvious for something that should be a simple routine for any trading program. Thank you. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2014-03-17 18:48:10
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