PortfoliosPortfoliosIt is important to keep accurate records of your trades and with Stock Investor you can maintain precise, up to date details of all of your trading activities.
Stock Investor has three portfolio management tools that help you to manage your trading, they are accessible from the Portfolio tool bar button's drop-down menu.
The Portfolio Manager lets you record not only your trades but also any other activities related to your investments, and lets you view the value of your accounts using the latest price data. You can also generate accurate reports for taxation and account keeping purposes.
In the management window securities are organized into Accounts, which are further divided into portfolios. Normally an account will be set up for each brokerage account that you have.
Your current actual cash position is clearly visible in the cash portfolios automatically created each time you create an account. The amount of cash held on account can be varied by the user to reflect amounts actually invested with the broker, and debits from the account.
Trades are entered manually, and a link to the broker accounts manager (see below), populates the details of the costs of the trade.
Historical details of past trading activity can also be entered and the current position of those securities monitored in the portfolio. Non-trading events which affect the securities in your portfolios, such capital adjustments like stock splits and dividend reinvestment, are able to be entered.
For each portfolio the positions, trades, transactions and orders can be viewed in detail.
Using the Portfolio Manager, users can manage all of their investment activity in one convenient spot and have all the values updated regularly.
For more information, go to the Portfolio Manager help topic.
Stock Investor provides a number of predefined and preformatted reports which output details of your portfolios to your printer, they can be viewed or printed at any time.
The Report feature within Stock Investor allows you to create reports for any period of time, enabling you to generate reports for a financial year or a specific trading period.
Reports give you a paper-based backup of your trading activity, and are helpful in the preparation of financial returns.
Common report types like holdings, transactions, Capital gains/losses can be selected and generated using up to date data.
For more information, go to the Reports help topic.
In one management window, all broker accounts can be listed. Contact numbers, contractual terms, commission rates and formulae can all be stored and easily compared.
Default brokers can be set and Brokers selected for particular types of securities and for particular markets.
The details entered in the Broker Account table are available for selection when you enter a transaction's details in the Portfolio Manager.
For more information, go to the Broker Accounts help topic.
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