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Create a What-If Portfolio

The What-if portfolio feature lets you create an editable, hypothetical portfolio based on your actual portfolio. This allows you to "make changes" to your portfolio, including adding, closing, reducing or increasing positions, to see how your risk profile would change. Additionally, you can check your margin requirements on the portfolio.

You can also build a new hypothetical portfolio, position-by-position, to see how the risk profile changes as positions are added and modified.

You can also create an order from within a What-if portfolio that will fill on an exchange. For details, See Create Orders from a What If Portfolio for more information.

What-if portfolios are outlined in red for easy identification, and display the What-if title at the top of the window.

To create a "what-if" scenario based on your current portfolio

1. Open the IB Risk Navigator window and on the Portfolio menu, select New.
2. Specify whether or not you want to base the hypothetical portfolio on your existing portfolio.

1. If yes, all of your current positions will download to the new What-if.
2. If no, you will see a blank window and can addition positions by clicking the green "New" field or dragging and dropping contracts from your main window.

To save a "what-if" portfolio

1. On the Portfolio menu select Save As.
2. Enter a file name and click Save.

To add or modify "what if" cash positions

1.  Select the P&L tab.

2.  From the Report table, expand the Cash section.

3.  Click the position cell for a given currency, enter the new amount, and press "Enter."

4.  To add a new currency, use the right-click menu and select Add new Cash Position.

5.  Choose the currency and click "OK.

You should see that the new currency is now available in the Cash section of the P&L tab, and you can edit the Position size.

To reload the last saved version

Use this command to reset all values in the active portfolio to the last saved version. This command only works on an unsaved file. An unsaved portfolio will display an asterisk "*" at the end of the title.

1. On the Edit menu select Reload from file.
2. Confirm that you want to reload the file and lose all of your unsaved changes by clicking Yes.

To add/subtract positions from other portfolio files

1. From the active portfolio, on the Edit menu select Add From or Subtract From.
2. Select a portfolio to add/subtract. The add/subtract selection list only displays names of portfolios that are currently open.
3. Click OK to add or subtract positions from the active portfolio.

• The add/subtract feature nets out positions common to both portfolios, and creates a contract line for each new contract (even if the position is "0").
• You can add/subtract the same portfolio multiple times. Current positions are netted out each time.

To add one new contract

1. Click NEW and enter the underlying symbol.
2. Define the asset.
3. Specify the position.

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