Portfolio (Trade Tiles)

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Portfolio is a book-wide dashboard: one tile per trade, across every symbol and account, each showing a P&L summary, RegT-style Margin, Greeks, and a small expiry-payoff chart. Open it from the Trades menu → Portfolio, or press Alt+K.

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Which trades show up

Portfolio only ever shows trades it considers currently relevant to your book:

Monitored trades (Status = Monitored) always show, whether or not an Options Analysis (OA) window is open for them.
Loaded/unmonitored trades (Status = Unmonitored) only show while they're actually loaded on an open OA that's visible (not hidden or minimized) — a trade just sitting in your Trade List with no OA open for it doesn't clutter Portfolio.

Archived, orphaned, and expired-pending-settlement trades never appear here — see the Trade List Guide for those states.

What's on a tile

Each tile shows, top to bottom:

Trade name, then account and symbol
Days In Trade / Days To Expiration, and the underlying's last known price
RegT Margin and Realized P&L
Current P&L (realized + unrealized), colored green/red, and the position's Greeks (Δ Γ V Θ)
A small expiry-payoff chart (P&L at expiration across a range of underlying prices, with the current price marked)

Click anywhere on a tile to open or focus that trade's OA — see below.

Accurate vs. approximate numbers

Portfolio never leaves a figure blank, but it's honest about how confident each one is:

Accurate (normal color): when exactly one OA is open, visible, and showing only this trade (not combined with another via "Add Trade"), Margin/P&L/Greeks are read straight off that OA's own Position Summary — the same numbers you'd see in the OA itself.
Approximate (dimmed color, tooltip explains): otherwise, Portfolio computes them independently — Margin using the same RegT worst-case-at-expiry method the OA uses, and Greeks from Black-Scholes using each leg's own last-known market price to solve for implied volatility (falling back to a flat volatility estimate only if a leg has no live price at all, e.g. a trade nobody's looked at recently).

The approximation is always RegT-style, even for a Portfolio Margin/PM account — real PM margin needs a heavier calculation Portfolio doesn't currently run independently.

Hover over a tile's P&L or Greeks to see which kind of number you're looking at.

Account and symbol filters

The left panel has a symbol dropdown (defaults to "All symbols") and an account checklist (every account checked by default). Uncheck an account to hide its trades, or pick one symbol to narrow the view to just that underlying. Both filters combine — e.g. pick a symbol and uncheck an account to see only that symbol's trades in your remaining accounts.

Your checked-account selection is remembered between sessions.

Layout: row, column, and collapsing the filter panel

The Column ➡ / Row ⬆ button (bottom toolbar) switches the tile area between a single horizontal row (scrolls sideways) and a single vertical column (scrolls up/down) — pick whichever suits how you want to size the window.
The « / » button collapses or restores the left filter panel, freeing up space for tiles.

Both choices are remembered between sessions.

Clicking a tile

Clicking a tile opens (or brings to front) the Options Analysis window for that exact trade — switching account/symbol first if needed, creating a new OA if none is open yet, and loading its chain automatically. Portfolio then hides itself so the OA has the screen. Reopen Portfolio any time from the Trades menu or Alt+K — it's never actually closed, just hidden, so it reopens instantly with your filters and layout exactly as you left them.

Refreshing

Portfolio refreshes itself automatically every few seconds while open, and also on demand via the Refresh button (bottom toolbar) — useful right after opening/closing an OA elsewhere if you don't want to wait for the next automatic tick.

Opening automatically at startup

Settings (Wheel icon) → General Settings → Open Portfolio on startup: when enabled, Portfolio opens automatically once IB connects and the rest of SOAP2's normal startup sequence finishes, at its last remembered position and size. Off by default.

Window position, size, and layout memory

Portfolio remembers its window position, size, and monitor between sessions, correcting itself back on-screen if that monitor is no longer connected. Its row/column layout choice, filter-panel collapsed state, and checked-account selection are remembered the same way.

FAQ

Why does a trade's Margin/Greeks look different before and after I open its OA? Before, Portfolio is showing its own independent approximation (dimmed); once the OA is open, visible, and its chain has loaded, Portfolio switches to reading the OA's own exact numbers.

Why did a trade's tile disappear? Most likely it's an unmonitored trade whose OA you just hid, minimized, or closed — see Which trades show up. A monitored trade never disappears this way.

Can I see Margin/Greeks for a trade combined with another one in the same OA (via "Add Trade")? Not accurately — a combined OA's summary is a blended total across every trade shown in it, so it can't be split back apart. Both trades' tiles fall back to the approximate figures in that case.

Does Portfolio request any new market data on its own? No — it only reads data already resident from your trades' existing subscriptions (TLog quotes, or an open OA), so opening Portfolio never adds to your IB data usage.

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