Total Account Value

Balance Description Update Frequency
Total Account Value The total market value of all positions in the account, including Core, minus any outstanding debit balances and any amount required to cover short option positions that are in-the-money. Real-Time
Cash (Core) Account settlement position for trade activity and money movement, including core and other eligible additional Fidelity money markets. Executed Buy orders and cash withdrawals will reduce the Core, and executed Sell orders and cash deposits will increase the Core. Overnight
Cash Credit/Cash Debit A Cash Credit (positive value) reflects a credit from unsettled trades or deposits that has not yet swept into the core account. In certain circumstances, cash credits may not be swept to your core account. When that occurs, the cash credit balance will reflect both amounts credited to the account from unsettled activity as well as un-swept settled cash balances. A Cash Debit (negative value) is an amount that will be debited from the account at settlement. Intraday
Held in Cash The total market value of all long cash account positions. This figure is reduced by the value of any in-the-money covered options and does not include cash in the Core Money Market. Real-Time
Held in Options The market value of all long and short option positions held in the account. Real-Time

Real-Time, Intraday, and Overnight

Additional Details

For more detailed information about your account balances, you can expand the balances table by clicking Show All or you can expand an individual section by clicking the "+" sign to the left of any section name , or just clicking the name of the section. When the table is expanded for a detailed view of individual balance fields, the "+" sign becomes a "-" sign that you can click to collapse the table and return to the summary view. If all the sections of the balances table have been expanded (because you either clicked Show All or expanded each section individually), you can collapse the table and return to the summary view by clicking either Hide All or the "-" sign to its left.

Positive/Negative and Credit/Debit