Trade Book

A trade book — in the context of stock broking and financial markets — is a real-time or end-of-day record of all buy and sell orders placed and executed by an investor or trader through their broking account during a trading session, detailing the security name, order type, quantity, execution price, timestamp, order status (executed, pending, rejected), and brokerage charges. The trade book is a key operational document maintained by a broker (such as Ventura Securities) and accessible to clients through their trading platform, serving as the authoritative record of trading activity for the day. For traders and investors, the trade book is essential for verifying order execution accuracy, reconciling positions with the contract note, monitoring intraday trading activity, and resolving any discrepancies with the broker. In a broader financial context, a 'trading book' also refers to the portfolio of financial instruments held by a bank or financial institution for short-term trading — as opposed to the 'banking book' of loans and hold-to-maturity investments — subject to distinct regulatory capital treatment under Basel norms.