How to check Market Value

Requirements:

• Access to the client platform
• Asset name
•  International Securities Identification Number (ISIN)

 

What is market value?

Market value is the price an asset or a company is worth on the financial market. It is calculated in the system as [number of shares] * [current price]

 

Where does a market value come from?

Market value can be;

• imported from sources such as IB etc.
• automated
• and manually updated by the clients

In the Main Menu, navigate to 'Market Data'.

 

You can see these fields in Market data including asset name, ISIN and ticker.

 

 

• Search for the asset name or ISIN. To know more about ISIN.

 

• Click for the asset name

 

• Under Overview, go to 'Update Prices'.

 

• The right pane shows the asset price (bid) delivered for each date by the source.

In the example below, the latest price is £19.15 on July 13 from source IB.

 

What you need to do: Check the asset price and confirm from which source the price come from.

• If the source is IB, check the IB report to validate if there is price retrieved for the asset. If none, possibly because there is an error.

Investigate the error, check this article How to check IB report

 

• If the Market Data shows 'No prices have been added for this asset yet.' This means that no price provided for that asset.