The Account Balance Request

The purpose of the accountBalance request is to provide a specific account balance field information from an account, for example the initial margin or the open trade equity of a certain account.

The accountBalance format

The accountBalance request must be formed by three fields: accountBalance keyword, order entry account id and account balance field.

The accountBalance keyword and the account id are separated by the exclamation character ‘!’, while the account id and account balance field are separated by the ‘@’ character.

accountBalance!ACCOUNT@BALANCE_FIELD

The ACCOUNT parameter is the order entry account id for which a specific account balance field is requested.

The BALANCE_FIELD parameter is the balance field from the Account Information frame in QST.

Possible BALANCE_FIELD values for the QOR provider:

• currentInitialMargin – Initial Margin

• currentInitialMarginInclOrders - Initial Margin incl.Orders

• currentMaintenanceMargin – Maintenance Margin

• currentMaintenanceMarginInclOrders – Maintenance Margin incl. Orders

• sodAccountBalance – Start-Of-Day Account Balance

• intradayCommissionsApplied – Intraday Commissions Applied

• intradayFeesApplied – Intraday Fees Applied

• netCashOperations – Intraday Cash In/Out

• grossFuturesProfitLoss – Gross Futures Profit/Loss

• netOptionPremium – Net Option Premium

• potentialOptionPremiumPurchase – Potential Option Premium Purchase

• equitiesPurchaseSale – Equities Purchase/Sale

• mtmEndingAccountBalance – Curent Account Balance

• mtmTotalOpenTradeEquity – Open Trade Equity

• equitiesMarketValue – Equities Market Value

• mtmTotalAccountEquity – Total Account Equity

• netOptionValue – Net Option Value

• securitiesOnDeposit – Securities On Deposit

• netLiquidationValue – Net Liquidation Value

• potentialEquityPurchase – Potential Equity Purchase

• marginCredit – Margin Credit

• excessFunds – Purchasing Power

• equitiesPurchasingPower – Equities Purchasing Power

Note

You can only request one specific piece of information per account balance request, e.g. you can request the Open Trade Equity or the Total Account Equity but not both in the same accountBalance request. Likewise, you can’t request the same account balance field from 2 or more accounts.

Examples of accountBalance request

1. Requesting the Initial Margin for an account:

=RTD("qst.rtd","","accountBalance!16050@currentInitialMargin")

2. Requesting the Open Trade Equity for an account:

=RTD("qst.rtd","","accountBalance!16050@mtmTotalOpenTradeEquity")

3. Requesting the Intraday Commissions Applied for an account:

=RTD("qst.rtd","","accountBalance!16050@intradayCommissionsApplied")

4. Requesting the Curent Account Balance for an account:

=RTD("qst.rtd","","accountBalance!16050@mtmEndingAccountBalance")