> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.turbo.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Your balance

> Cash, available margin, used margin, and margin health — every number on the portfolio screen explained.

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

## 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](/deposits-withdrawals) right now.

## 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.

## 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.

## Margin health

Each position shows a margin health indicator: how far the position is from [liquidation](/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](/margin).

## Related

* [Margin: isolated and cross](/margin) — what the collateral actually does, in both modes.
* [Leverage](/leverage) — how position size relates to the margin behind it.