Recently I've just been trying to get quick scalps here and there with this crazy market movement. I have a margin account where I typically keep an all cash position to trade with. Day traded yesterday all day and I didn't have one red trade. ( I've had days where I've only had red trades but yesterday just happened to click and work for me)
So yesterday I had an all cash position into market close. I bought a position after market when things were tanking (specifically $TSLA at 217.30 and I sold at 4 am in premarket at 219.30) 100 shares both ways. so I profited $200 on the overnight trade.
But when I closed my position in the early hours of the morning I noticed that my account was misrepresenting P/L by a lot it showed that I had overall gains and losses that were different from my actual P/L. Although the monetary value in my account did not reflect that (it was more or less correct my balance was close to where it ought to be so I figured it was a bug) The glitches later cleared up after I went to sleep and woke up again.
But when I woke up I had a negative -$300ish P/L for the day, although the only trade I had made had granted me +$200
Is it possible for this to happen? I contacted support and he explained it but I don't know I just still didn't get it. I don't understand how could be mathematically possible but I just wanted to run it by you guys to see if that this is usual? I don't know if the actual balance on my account reflects correctly, I'm pretty sure it does I just know I'm roughly in the right ballpark
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