I am including broker fees in my trade calculations, so what you see is exactly the amount of money I have, give or take a few cents from rounding error.  My losses would be smaller, and my gains would be bigger if I didn't include the fees, but I want to make sure it doesn't appear I'm making a profit when I'm not yet.  If I didn't have any fees, my account would be at a $2017 from an original balance of $2000, so technically I'm in the green but trading OTCs isn't cheap!  So I just have to keep getting bigger gains.