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Your portfolio screen shows a handful of numbers that all sound similar — balance, available, used, health. Here’s what each one actually means.

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Cash / available margin

The part of your balance that isn’t committed to anything. This is what you can use to open new positions or withdraw right now.

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Used margin

The money currently posted behind your open positions. It’s still your money, but it’s working: it’s the collateral backing your trades, so you can’t withdraw it or spend it on new positions until the positions holding it are closed. Close a position and its margin — plus or minus that position’s profit or loss — returns to your available balance immediately.

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Total balance

Cash plus used margin plus the current unrealized profit or loss on your open positions. It moves with the market while you have positions open — that’s not a glitch, that’s your live account value.

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Margin health

Each position shows a margin health indicator: how far the position is from liquidation. Healthy means the market would have to move a long way against you; low health means it wouldn’t. Two ways to improve a position’s health:
  1. Reduce the position — closing part of it lowers the exposure the margin has to support.
  2. Add collateral — on an isolated position, add margin directly to it from the position screen; on a cross position, add funds to your account. Either moves liquidation further away.
For isolated-margin positions, health is per-position: one struggling trade says nothing about the rest of your account. For cross-margin positions, health reflects the shared balance backing all your cross positions. The two modes are explained in Margin.