Your money
Bought at,
worth now
Brokers are good at telling you what something is worth today. They are strangely quiet about what you paid.
Both ends
of the trade
Every holding is drawn as a line between two points: the price you paid and the price today. A hollow marker is your cost, a solid one is now, and the distance between them is the whole story of that position.
It means a stock that has doubled and a stock that has drifted sideways look different at a glance, rather than after arithmetic. Fractional units are counted at full precision — a holding of 0.4213 shares is not rounded into something tidier, and a price of $0.011 is not rounded to zero.
How concentrated
are you, really
A portfolio of twelve holdings is not diversified if two of them are most of the money. Pocket measures the concentration rather than counting the names.
A benchmark is a comparison, not a claim that you should have bought it.
Pocket will show your return next to a broad index for the market your account sits in, and label it plainly: Pocket does not hold the index and is not suggesting you should. The comparison is context, not advice.3