Recent content by CDNSteve2017

After doing a bit of thinking/review, turned out the reason everything seemed/looked wrong to me is because it was...I setup my options wrong...good learning experience and thankful it was just in paper trades! Thanks again for your insight.

Not sure if these pictures will help at all, but these are the numbers I see. I guess what I'm trying to figure out, is there any real point in looking at these numbers on a daily basis or should I just ignore these till either I a) close the option or b) it expires? A couple of them expire...

Yes, parenthesis. The numbers I'm most interested in understanding are the ones under: P/L Open P/L Day P/L YTD I know what the columns all mean (Profit/Loss etc) I'm just trying to understand exactly what the numbers I see mean.

New to all this, using Think or Swim and just started doing some paper trading (options). I'm trying to understand how to read the "monitor" page properly. Mostly trying to understand my account balances and current trades. Most of the numbers seems to be in (brackets), which I understand to be...