Ledger Balance vs Margin Available

Ledger Balance is your actual settled cash; Margin Available is the broader real-time trading limit that also includes collateral value and unsettled amounts.

What It Means

Ledger Balance is your actual cash position, carried from your account's running ledger of deposits, withdrawals, and settled realised profit or loss. Margin Available is the broader, real-time trading limit your broker computes for you right now — and it can be a bigger number than your ledger balance.

How It Works

Margin Available folds in things Ledger Balance doesn't: the usable value of pledged shares after haircut, premium received from selling options, and unrealized or not-yet-settled amounts. It tells you what you can trade with today; Ledger Balance tells you what cash is actually sitting in your account.

Warning

Don't treat your full "margin available" figure as withdrawable cash — a large chunk of it can be collateral-based trading limit, not money you can actually pull out to your bank account.