Hi, Traders.
I'm David Cleaver.
Keeping track of your cash, orders, and trade history
is vital for every trader.
Thankfully, the account statement
in the Thinkorswim platform will help
you keep tabs on all that information and more.
Let's jump right in and take a look.
So here you have your monitor activity and positions pages.
Open this up by closing that dock
and get right to the account statement.
You'll find that here at the top of the page,
alongside your account number, as well as the time
frame that you're looking at.
We can customize this time frame by clicking here and changing
it out from one day's back from today,
which is the default value.
Right here, you'll see a drop down menu
that allows you to switch the days from one to seven or 30,
or even type in a different amount
if you're looking for a specific number.
Furthermore, you're going to see a calendar below it, which
allows you to select the specific date
range by clicking on a date and giving you that option there.
To reset this tool, simply click the Reset button
and it will bring it back to that default value.
Let's click on seven days back from today and look
at the Cash and Sweep Vehicle, which
you're going to show you the cash
movement within the account.
Notice here how it's sorted by trade date,
and has a variety of different descriptions, commissions,
and fees, amounts, and balances.
What this is essentially how the cash is
moving within the account.
Notice by highlighting here, it brings up
different details about those trades your commissions
the amount affected and the running total of that balance.
This is going to hold all sorts of different transactions
as you'll see here by this drop down menu.
That will show you trades, deposits, withdrawals,
transfers, dividends and interest, and the start of day
balances.
By selecting these and unclogging those check boxes,
you'll notice it cleans up this page and just shows you
what you have selected.
To get back to the original view,
simply click the Reset button and you'll
be brought back to that page.
Next, we'll take a look at the order history page.
This is great if you want to look at,
for example, the path that you got to a position.
You're going to see all sorts of orders here,
not only just filled orders, but anything that was canceled,
replaced, or even expired.
To look at this page and see a little bit more detail,
we can type in, for example, Tesla up here on the selector
box, and that'll bring up just the trades
that we made on Tesla.
Notice here how we got into this position down here at 20, 23,
on the filled order, and tried a couple of different exit
strategies that didn't work out.
They were eventually filled at 46.08,
and we can take a look at the time these replaced
and when they were replaced.
To bring back all the details from before,
simply clear out that symbol box and everything will come back.
Next, let's take a look at the trade history tab.
The trade history tab is strictly just
going to have fills instead of all the orders
that were ever placed.
So you won't see any canceled orders
or placed orders in here.
These are strictly going to be filled orders.
Again, if we wanted to look at a specific position,
we can type a symbol in here, and voila, there it is.
Here we can also customize these columns
by clicking on this viewer on the far right side.
What that does is brings up each of the selections
that we can add or subtract from that custom column set.
So let's say for example, I don't
want to see the order type.
Let's remove that, hit OK, and you'll
notice that this allows for a little bit more detail.
Clicking on the gear icon, clicking on Customize,
and clicking on Load Defaults, and then, OK, that'll
bring everything back to the way that it was.
Next, let's move down to equities and options.
Again, we're going to have these custom columns used
by clicking on the gear icon so we can customize it to a setup
that we prefer.
But you're going to see current positions, and descriptions,
quantities, and trade prices on those positions.
Now let's say we want to take a look at the profit and losses
overall in the account.
So the net profit loss tab is going to be fantastic for that.
You're first going to see a number here
that's going to be your profit and loss year to date,
and kind of a running total on that.
Now within these columns here, you're
going to see those little arrows by clicking on those.
It's going to sort them to ascending, descending,
and reset them by clicking them a third time.
All these symbols are going to be ones
that you held within the year and kind of give you a picture
overall of your account.
A fantastic way to look at this is
by sorting it by a profit and loss year to date,
either ascending or descending, and taking
a look at what you're winners than losers
were in the account.
Lastly, let's look at the Account Summary
at the very bottom of the page.
Here you're going to see some figures that
are going to be essentially the data within the accounts.
You're going to see your buying power,
you're going to see your commissions and fees year
to date.
You may also see some other figures
based on some of the commissions that
are allowed in your account.
By hovering over these, you'll see a small description there,
and you can kind of get a little bit more detail as
to what those figures are specifically representing.
If you ever have questions on these figures or anything
on the account statement, feel free to give us a call,
and we will be more than happy to walk you through those.
And that's a quick look at the account statement
on Thinkorswim.
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Thanks and happy trading.