# Where's the cash?

**URL:** https://forums.collective2.com/t/wheres-the-cash/3245
**Category:** C2
**Created:** [September 8, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/wheres-the-cash/3245 "2009-09-08T20:38:09Z")
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### Author: ![KMan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/kman/32/1487_2.png) [@KMan](https://forums.collective2.com/u/KMan)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/wheres-the-cash/3245/1 "2009-09-08T20:38:09Z")

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A quick question from a newbie - how can you tell what your current cash balance is in your accout? I don’t see it listed anywhere in the numbers C2 gives you. Thanks.

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### Author: ![LarryH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LarryH](https://forums.collective2.com/u/LarryH)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/wheres-the-cash/3245/2 "2009-09-10T19:11:18Z")

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Good point Kenneth,  
  
Can somebody please explain how buying power for a stock system is calculated? It looks like buying power is in fact the cash one has available…until one starts to sell the securities owned. At that point “buying power”increases by a factor 2 and becomes the amount of stocks one can buy including the margin.(which is indeed buying power)  
  
My point: If I look at buypower I can not know if this refers to cash or “real buypover”  
  
  
  
  
  
2:29:57 buypower $10,000  
  
1st trade) 2:30:49 PM bto 180 VXX buypower:$4,892  
  
That’s fine: I have now 4892 USD cash that I can invest and buy stocks on margin for 4892x2  
  
Next I do few trades more to use all my buying power (20k usd) then I sell to close:  
  
2:40:34 PM stc 300 VXX, buypower $16,964  
  
Why 16k? this is now buypower for 50% marginable stocks, not the cash I have in my virtual portfolio.  
  
2:41:22 PM stc 52 VXX …surprise my buypower has decrease to $9,955  
  
 back to the “available cash amount”meaning  
  
  
  
thanks,  
  
Lorenzo

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### Author: ![KMan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forums.collective2.com/kman/32/1487_2.png) [@KMan](https://forums.collective2.com/u/KMan)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.collective2.com/t/wheres-the-cash/3245/3 "2009-09-20T20:17:45Z")

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Lorenzo,  
  
  
  
OK, I think I have figured out the cash question. In the stats box on the right of the main screen there is a stat called ‘cumu$’. That looks like the cumulative profit since the start of the system. So if you add that to the beginning amount that should give you the total amount. Now if I could figure out buying power…