Instruments Management
The Instrument Management section provides you with the tools and functionalities needed to efficiently manage instruments within the platform. This includes searching for instruments, monitoring price changes, and handling structured products such as notes.
Key Features of Instrument Management
Unified Instrument Search – Quickly find and retrieve instrument details across the platform.
Structured Products (Notes) – Learn how to manage and track structured instruments.
Price Change Alerts – Set up alerts to monitor and react to instrument price fluctuations.
Manage Instrument’s Corporate Action-Reflect corporate actions via the platform
This section serves as a comprehensive guide to managing instruments, ensuring you can track, organize and monitor assets effectively within the platform.
Important notes on instrument accounting
Certain instrument types follow specific conventions for how quantity, value, and P&L are calculated in the platform.
Bonds
For bonds, the Qty (quantity) field always represents the nominal amount (face value × number of lots). You do not need to multiply separately .
Scenario | What you see in Qty | Example |
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Entering an order/ transaction manually | Enter the nominal amount directly | 1 lot at face value 200,000 → enter |
Fill received from bank with nominal in qty | Stored as-is | Bank sends |
Fill received from bank without nominal in qty | System multiplies by face value automatically | Bank sends |
What this means in practice
Qty = 200,000 on a bond with face value 200,000 means you hold 1 lot. Always think of Qty as the notional amount, not the number of contracts.
Futures & Options
For futures and options, Qty represents the number of contracts - it is not multiplied by the contract size. However, all value and P&L calculations do apply the contract size multiplier.
Parameter | Contract size applied? | Formula |
|---|---|---|
Qty | No | Number of contracts as entered |
Value | Yes |
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P&L parameters | Yes |
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Example: 10 futures contracts at price 50, contract size 100 → Qty = 10, Value = 10 × 50 × 100 = 50,000.
Market price - what price does the platform show?
The platform shows the most current market price available. If no current price is available - for example for illiquid instruments or on non-trading days - the most recent historical price for that position is used instead.
For Fixed Income / SP /Deposit /Loan /Granted Loan Mutual Fund instruments, if no market price has ever been recorded, the platform falls back to the purchase price. Value and P&L will show no change until a real market price is available. If this persists, contact your administrator.