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title: "Holdings"
description: "Holdings is the view showing what a strategy would hold now — the target positions its rules imply at a chosen rebalance date, not how it performed."
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last_updated: "2026-08-02"
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# Holdings

Holdings is the view that shows what a strategy would hold right now — the target positions its rules imply at a chosen [rebalance](/docs/backtesting/rebalance) date — rather than how it performed across history. It answers "what does this strategy hold today?", where the Analysis view answers "how did it do?". Holdings reads from a completed run, so a strategy has to have been run at least once before it can show anything.

**Also seen as:** current state, target portfolio

## What does the Holdings view show?

Holdings shows one rebalance date's target book, in five parts. Four KPIs summarise it — [**Target notional**](/docs/portfolio-holdings/target-notional), [**Cash**](/docs/portfolio-holdings/cash-and-capital-invested), **Positions**, and **Accuracy** (see [accuracy](/docs/portfolio-holdings/accuracy)). The **Order plan** lists what would be bought, sold, and adjusted to reach that book, grouped as Entering, Exiting, and Adjusted (see [order plan](/docs/portfolio-holdings/order-plan)). **Target allocation** shows the resulting weights, including any cash. **Rebalances** lets you move between past and upcoming rebalance dates. And the **Target positions & exits** sheet lists every position with its Qty, Target value, Deployed amount, and exits (see [target vs deployed](/docs/portfolio-holdings/target-vs-deployed)).

## How is Holdings different from the Analysis view?

Holdings describes a single point in time; Analysis describes the whole path. Holdings also runs on its own fixed set of assumptions rather than the [simulation assumptions](/docs/backtesting/simulation-assumptions) toggles — see [Holdings forced assumptions](/docs/backtesting/holdings-forced-assumptions) for what that set is and why the two views can disagree on the same date.

## Defaults in Fincanva

- **Holdings on your OWN strategies is set by your plan: it opens from Starter upwards.** A Free plan still backtests its strategies and reads the Analysis surfaces its plan includes; what it does not open is this page's view of what one of your own strategies would buy today. Public strategies are unaffected — anyone can open the Holdings of a strategy from the public catalogue, on any plan and signed out. See [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).
- **The current-state output itself is a Free plan's to go without, not merely a page it cannot open.** From Starter upwards Fincanva computes this view's figures for a strategy; on Free they are never asked for, so there is nothing held back behind a lock. An out-of-plan Analysis tab works the same way — its figures are not computed either — so the difference is what you SEE, and it is a deliberate choice: that tab stays in place with a padlock, while Holdings is refused outright. See [what each plan includes](/docs/account-security/what-each-plan-includes).
- Holdings needs a completed run. With none it shows "No results yet" and "Backtest this strategy to see its target portfolio."
- You choose which rebalance date to view; when it is not the most recent one the view warns "You're viewing `{date}` — not the latest rebalance".
- **Refresh** recomputes the current state, showing "Refreshing…" while it works. It changes nothing about the strategy itself.
- You can type your own figure into **Capital**, and the target values rescale to it. The saved strategy's own starting capital is unchanged.
- A [Combined](/docs/getting-started/combined) with only one member strategy shows example results rather than its own — see [Incomplete Combined](/docs/backtesting/incomplete-combined).

## Worked example

A monthly-rebalanced strategy last rebalanced on 1 July and rebalances next on 1 August. Open Holdings and it shows the 1 July target book against 50,000 of capital: 12 positions, a Target notional of 48,000, 4% cash, and 96% Accuracy — the shortfall coming from whole-share rounding across the positions. The Order plan for that date reads 3 Entering, 2 Exiting, and 7 Adjusted, with an estimated turnover figure beside it. Switch the date to the previous rebalance and every panel re-reads that older book instead, with a warning that you are not looking at the latest one.

*The Holdings view describes a paper target portfolio a strategy's rules imply, never real orders, and no position or figure on it is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold. Fincanva provides no financial advice — see [Is this financial advice?](/docs/investing-theory/is-this-financial-advice).*