Draft Portfolio: draft option positions on NSE prices and follow them
Draft an options strategy against current market prices, without placing an order or linking a broker, and follow its P&L, margin and risk as the session moves.
What a draft is
A draft is a position written into your own book at a price you choose. Nothing is sent to an exchange and nothing is bought: Draft Portfolio keeps a ledger with a starting capital you set, and every draft is marked against the market from then on (NSE data, 15 minutes delayed). It is where a strategy from the Strategy Builder goes when you want to see how it behaves over the next hours and days, not only how its payoff looks today.
Drafting a position
- Index options and futures. One contract at a time from the pad: call, put or future, the side, the lots and the expiry.
- A whole strategy at once. "Draft this" in the Builder, a saved strategy or a ready-made one opens a review sheet that lists every leg, the net premium, estimated charges and the margin, then drafts all the legs together or none of them.
- The price you choose. Fill at the bid or ask, the last traded price, the mid, or a price you type.
- Stocks. Shares can be drafted from the list beside the book and appear on their own Stocks tab with average price, value and P&L.
Following the book
The strip at the top shows capital, equity, open P&L, booked P&L and the margin the book uses. Positions are listed one row per leg, filtered to open, closed or all, and can be grouped by underlying or by strategy. From a row you can add lots, square off, close the whole strategy, keep a note on why you took it, or press Adjust to open the strategy in the Builder and bring the changes back as one update. Legs left open to expiry are settled after the close.
Checks before and after you draft
The review sheet says what it notices and still lets you draft: a short option with no hedge, charges that eat more than a tenth of the premium, a sold option that expires within a day, or margin beyond your free capital. The margin is split into SPAN and exposure, so a hedged spread that blocks more than its worst loss is explained rather than looking like an error. Squaring off a leg that would leave a short leg bare asks first, with the option to close the whole strategy instead. These are facts about the position, not advice about it.
What a draft cannot tell you
A draft fills at the price you picked, at any size, every time. A real order meets a queue, partial fills and slippage that grow with size, and prices here are 15 minutes behind the exchange. Charges are an estimate. Treat a good run in Draft Portfolio as evidence about a structure, not as a result you would have kept.
Draft Portfolio questions
Does Draft Portfolio place orders with a broker?
No. Nothing is sent to an exchange and no broker account is linked. Drafts are written to your own ledger in EzyOptions and marked against NSE prices, 15 minutes delayed.
Can I draft a multi-leg strategy in one step?
Yes. From the Strategy Builder, a saved strategy or a ready-made one, a review sheet lists every leg with its price, the estimated charges and the margin, and drafts all the legs together or none of them.
Which instruments can I draft?
Index options and index futures from the pad, and stocks as shares. Stock options cannot be drafted yet.
Is the P&L in Draft Portfolio what I would have made?
No. Drafts fill at the price you choose with no queue, no partial fills and no slippage on size, and charges are estimated. A real result is usually worse.
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Educational analytics only: not investment advice. You are responsible for your own trading decisions.