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title: "Holdings columns"
description: "Holdings columns are the fields of the target positions table: Side is Long or Short, Qty is a count, and Last is priced in the asset's own currency."
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# Holdings columns

Holdings columns are the fields of the `Target positions & exits` table on a strategy's [Holdings](/docs/getting-started/holdings) view, one row per holding. Three of them get misread most often: **Side** says whether the target position is `Long` or `Short`, **Last** is the instrument's most recent price **in the asset's own currency**, and **Qty** is the number of shares or units the target works out to. The currency of `Last` is the trap — it is never converted to your account's [base currency](/docs/backtesting/base-currency), so a single row can pair a dollar price with a euro value.

The table has eight columns, in this order: `Symbol`, `Asset type`, `Side`, `Last`, `Qty`, `Target value`, `Deployed`, `Exits`.

## What do Side, Last, and Qty mean?

| Column | What it holds | Currency or unit |
|---|---|---|
| `Side` | `Long` — the position profits if the price rises — or `Short`, which profits if the price falls | not a number |
| `Last` | the instrument's most recent price | the **asset's** currency, at that asset's own decimal precision |
| `Qty` | the target quantity of the instrument | a count of shares, units, or contracts — never money |

`Qty` is the same quantity concept the app calls [Contracts](/docs/strategies/contracts) in its trade and position tables.

## Why is Last in a different currency from the rest of the row?

Because `Last` is the price on the instrument's own exchange, quoted the way that market quotes it, while the money columns are converted to your account's base currency so a portfolio total can be added up at all. A US-listed stock is quoted in dollars whatever currency your account keeps score in; converting that quote would show you a price no exchange displays.

The row tells you when the two differ. `Target value` prints in your base currency and adds a second, muted figure in the asset's currency underneath — but **only** when the asset's currency is not your base currency. If a row shows that sub-line, `Last` is in the sub-line's currency. If it shows no sub-line, the asset trades in your base currency and every figure on the row is in one currency.

The practical consequence: you cannot check a row by multiplying `Last` × `Qty` and comparing the result to `Target value`. That product is in the asset's currency, while `Target value` and `Deployed` are in yours. Convert first, or compare against the muted sub-line instead.

## Defaults in Fincanva

- `Side` renders as a badge reading `Long` or `Short`.
- `Last` is formatted in the asset's currency at that asset's own number of decimals, so one row may show two decimal places and another more.
- `Qty` is a plain count, shown without decimals when the target quantity is a whole number.
- Take-profit and stop-loss chips in the `Exits` column are priced in the asset's currency too, matching `Last` rather than the money columns (see [Exit reason](/docs/strategies/exit-reason)).
- The money columns are always in your base currency: `Target value` is the [target notional](/docs/portfolio-holdings/target-notional) and `Deployed` is what fits in whole shares (see [Target vs deployed](/docs/portfolio-holdings/target-vs-deployed)).
- Every figure is a target for a paper portfolio; no order is placed and nothing is traded (see [Portfolio](/docs/getting-started/portfolio)).

## Worked example

Your account keeps score in euros and the portfolio holds a US-listed stock. The row reads `Side Long` · `Last USD 412.00` · `Qty 6` · `Target value EUR 2,500` with a muted `USD 2,700` beneath it, and `Deployed EUR 2,289`.

Read it in the right currencies. The target is EUR 2,500, which is USD 2,700 at the day's rate — that is what the sub-line is for. At USD 412.00 a share, USD 2,700 buys 6 whole shares, so `Qty` is 6. Multiplying `Last` × `Qty` gives USD 2,472, which is dollars, and falls short of the USD 2,700 target by less than one share's price; that shortfall is [target vs deployed](/docs/portfolio-holdings/target-vs-deployed) at work. The `Deployed` column shows that same USD 2,472 converted back to euros, about EUR 2,289. Nothing on the row is inconsistent: `Last` is the price New York quotes, while `Target value` and `Deployed` are the euros your account measures in.

*Every column describes a paper target a strategy's rules produced. A `Short` badge is a description of that target position, never a suggestion to short anything, and no row 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).*