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title: "Read your order plan"
description: "Read a portfolio's Holdings view: pick the rebalance date, set Capital, and read the order plan, the target allocation, and the target positions sheet."
canonical_url: "https://fincanva.com/docs/portfolio-holdings/read-your-order-plan"
last_updated: "2026-09-21"
md_url: "https://fincanva.com/docs/portfolio-holdings/read-your-order-plan.md"
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# Read your order plan

The **Holdings** view shows what a strategy would hold at a chosen rebalance date, and the **Order plan** card lists what would change to get there.

↗ See this in Fincanva — a strategy's Holdings, under Order plan

## Before you start
You need a strategy that has completed at least one run. With none, the view reads "No results yet" and "Backtest this strategy to see its target portfolio."

**Nothing here is ever placed.** Fincanva has no broker connection and no way to mark an order as executed — the order plan is a list on paper, and any trade on it is yours to place yourself, with your own broker, entirely at your own discretion.

## Steps
1. Open the strategy and go to **Holdings**.
2. Choose which rebalance to look at with the **Date** control. It opens on the most recent date, tagged **Most recent**; typing filters the list.
3. Set **Capital** to the amount you want the plan sized for. It opens at 100,000 in your base currency.
4. Read the four figures across the top: **Target notional**, **Cash**, **Positions**, and **Accuracy**.
5. Read the **Order plan** card — the count of moves to execute, the **est. turnover** figure, and the three groups **Entering**, **Exiting**, and **Adjusted**. Selecting a group opens the full list of instruments in it.
6. Read **Target allocation** for the resulting weights, and **Target positions & exits** for the position-by-position detail.

## What you should see
**Entering** means instruments being added, **Exiting** instruments being dropped, and **Adjusted** instruments kept but re-sized. On a strategy's first rebalance it reads "Everything enters — this is the portfolio's first buy-in", because there is no previous book to differ from. With nothing due it reads "No changes this rebalance" and "There are no trades to place."

The **Target positions & exits** sheet lists every position under **Symbol**, **Asset type**, **Side**, **Last**, **Quantity**, **Target value**, **Deployed**, and **Exits**, with a **Total** row at the foot. The picture beside each **Symbol** is [its own logo, or a flag for its recorded origin](/docs/getting-started/instrument-logo).

These are paper figures describing what a strategy's rules imply, never advice to buy or sell anything — see [Is this financial advice?](/docs/investing-theory/is-this-financial-advice#is-this-financial-advice).

## Does changing Capital change my strategy?
No. **Capital** is an input to this view only: it re-sizes the target figures and the share counts, and it moves no weight, re-runs nothing, and is not saved with the strategy. It is a different thing from starting capital, which is a backtest setting belonging to the strategy itself and does flip the last run to **Needs re-run** when changed. [Capital](/docs/portfolio-holdings/capital#how-is-capital-different-from-starting-capital) covers the distinction.

## Why is the Deployed amount lower than the Target value?
Because you can only buy whole shares, so the target is rounded down to a whole number of them and the remainder stays as cash rather than becoming a trade. [Target vs deployed](/docs/portfolio-holdings/target-vs-deployed) carries the arithmetic and the size of the gap; [accuracy](/docs/portfolio-holdings/accuracy) averages how close each holding lands, with every holding counting equally, and it is the fourth number across the top of this view.

## Why does the allocation show "Others (N)"?
Because the treemap draws the largest cells individually and folds the tail into one. Cash gets its own cell whenever the book is not fully invested, and on a Combined the cells are the component strategies until you select one to drill into it. [The target allocation treemap](/docs/portfolio-holdings/target-allocation-treemap) covers both the fold and the drill-down.

## Common problems
### A warning says I'm not viewing the latest rebalance
The line reads `You’re viewing {date} — not the latest rebalance`. You have selected an older rebalance date. Nothing is wrong and nothing was changed — you are reading history. Pick the date tagged **Most recent** to get back to the current plan.

### A toast says "Couldn't update — reverted to the last result."
A re-fetch after a Date or Capital change failed, so the view put the last working value back rather than showing figures it could not stand behind. Try the change again.

### There is no way to mark the plan as done
There is none to find. The card is reporting, not a task list: it will describe the same rebalance until the underlying run or the date you are viewing changes.

### The card says "No changes this rebalance"
The strategy's target book at this date is the same as the book it already implies, so there is nothing to place. This is a normal outcome between rebalances, not an error or an empty result.