# Reading your dashboard

> The dashboard is built for a ninety-second visit. Here is what each part is telling you, which numbers are live, and which need a moment before they mean anything.

The dashboard answers two questions: what am I worth, and what moved. Everything else on it is a
route to somewhere more detailed.

## The headline figure

Your **net worth**: everything you own minus everything you owe, in euro.

Beneath it, three buckets that add up to it. **Cash** is bank and broker balances. **Investments**
is securities, crypto, property, metals and anything else you hold. **Debts** is mortgages, loans
and credit, subtracted rather than added. Each shows its share of the total.

The headline is computed live from your current balances rather than read from a stored figure, so
it is always the same calculation as the right-hand end of your chart. The two cannot drift apart.

## What moved

The comparison under the headline shows the change **against yesterday**, and can be switched to
last week or last month.

Pick the window that matches what you are asking. Day to day is mostly market noise for anyone
holding investments. A month tells you something about direction; a day usually does not.

**Top movers** answers the follow-up: which holdings actually caused the change. It is the fastest
route from "I am down today" to "because of this one position".

## The chart

**Net worth history** plots the figure over time.

Two things about it are worth knowing, and they are covered properly in
[how net worth history works](/concepts/how-net-worth-history-works):

Today's point is computed live. Every earlier day comes from a daily snapshot, with anything that
has a market price revalued as you look at it. That last part is why the chart can change without
you having done anything: the price data underneath it improved.

A new account appears from the date its history begins, not from the day you added it, provided
that history exists. This is why entering earlier valuations on manual entries changes the shape of
your past so much.

## Account health

**Account health** is the part to glance at rather than skip, because a stale connection is the one
failure that makes every other number quietly wrong.

It tells you when each account last synced, and flags any needing attention. A bank connection can
expire, an exchange API key can be revoked, and a DeGiro import is only ever as current as your last
upload.

If an account needs reconnecting, do that before drawing conclusions from a total.

**Sync now** requests a fresh pull. It is rate limited to roughly once an hour per connection,
because the providers themselves impose limits and a manual refresh does not bypass them. Between
refreshes the dashboard reads stored data, which is what makes it load instantly.

## Hide balances

**Hide balances** masks every figure while leaving the layout intact.

For showing someone a chart shape without the amounts, or working somewhere with people behind you.
It is a display toggle, so it changes nothing about your data and turns off again when you want it.

## First visit

An empty dashboard is not broken. It is waiting for an account.

Connect or import one and the buckets populate immediately. The chart needs more than a single day
to be a line rather than a point, so history is the one thing that genuinely arrives over time,
unless you entered past valuations by hand.