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Applies to Positions → Trade Booking with the Continue Booking control. Trade Booking prepares individual contracts before applying their position effects to a book. Contract edits remain in the unbooked basket until booking succeeds.

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What is required before booking?

  • Access to Trade Booking.
  • Owner or edit access to the intended book.
  • The intended contract terms, quantity, and required price information.
Available screens depend on the account configuration. The screen with Upload to Book uses a separate workflow. Use Upload positions for supported file imports.

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How to prepare an individual trade

  1. Select Positions in the sidebar.
  2. Select Trade Booking.
  3. Select Add above the table.
  4. Select the required Tradable Type.
  5. Select Add in the dialog.
Verify that the new row appears. The initial contract contains defaults that require review.
  1. Select the row’s Edit control.
  2. Enter the intended instrument-specific terms.
  3. Enter the intended Quantity.
  4. Select Refresh (F9), where available, to update the displayed calculation.
  5. Resolve any validation messages.
  6. Select Save.
Verify the contract name and quantity in the returned booking table. Saving these edits does not book the position. Instrument-specific fields and quantity units vary by contract type.

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How to confirm the booking

  1. Review every row in the unbooked basket.
  2. Select Delete for any unintended unbooked row.
  3. Verify that each removed row disappears before continuing.
  4. Select Continue Booking.
  5. Review every row on the Confirmation page.
  6. Select the intended book from Select a book….
  7. Enter Price Paid wherever required.
  8. Check the names, quantities, prices, and destination book.
Booking creates new position effects in the selected book. All rows on the confirmation page are submitted together. The supplied quantities change existing holdings; they are not target position balances.
  1. Select Book once.
Verify that The booking was successful. appears.
  1. Select OK.
Verify the returned trade identifier, book, and instruments on Trade Details. Trade Details rounds displayed quantities to whole numbers. This display cannot verify fractional quantities precisely. This booking flow records the trade date at booking time. It has no historical trade-date selector. A visible book choice does not guarantee booking permission. If submission fails, review the message and existing trade state before retrying. An uncertain response does not establish that nothing was saved.

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How to offset a booked trade

This procedure starts from the intended Trade Details page with Reverse available.
Reversal creates another trade with opposite position effects at the new booking time. The original trade remains recorded. Repeating the action can create another offsetting trade.
  1. Check the original trade identifier, book, and position effects.
  2. Select Reverse.
  3. Check the original trade identifier in Reverse Trade.
  4. Select Reverse in the confirmation dialog.
Verify the success message and its link to the offsetting trade.
  1. Open the linked trade.
Check the offsetting trade’s identifier, book, and instruments. The same quantity-rounding limitation applies to the offsetting trade. Reversal does not rewrite the original trade’s historical date.

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How can the updated positions be used in a report?

Launch a report for a portfolio containing the affected book. Choose a portfolio date that includes the intended position effects. Opening an earlier completed report displays its existing calculation.