Understanding summary of brokerage account value, cash balance, buying power?

Question

I am totally new to stock and their trading. I have questions when I was trying to understand an account at a brokerage company:

Account 12345678(Margin)
Net Liq Value   $23,416.36 
Buying Power - Stock    $27,064.61
Buying Power - Option  $13,532.30
Cash Balance    $3,648.25
Unsettled Cash  $0.00 

I was wondering

1. what are the meanings of Net Liq Value and Cash Balance?
2. What are the meanings of Buying Power - Stock, Buying Power - Option, and Unsettled Cash?
3. How much money does the account have currently?

Thanks and regards!

Answer 1

Here you go:

• Net Liq Value is the value of the account, if you liquidated all positions right now.
• Cash balance is the value of your cash or money market holdings.
• Stock buying power is the amount of marginable securities that you can buy now.
• Options buying power is the amount of unmarginable securities that you can buy now. You cannot buy options on margin.
• Unsettled cash is the expected proceeds of a sale that is still pending. Some brokers let you use unsettled cash like cash at your own risk.

I'll leave the last question as an exercise to the reader.