Manually Adding Trades In Stocklog+

007: Manually Adding Trades

Stocklog+ by default looks at most items as your broker does:
  1. Dates are always YYYY-MM-DD format
  2. Each buy or sell is considered a unique single transaction and treated as such. Simple example: When you buy a security, the broker may allow you to sell a call at the same time you buy the security, which may appear on your trading app as a single transaction of 'Writing/Creating a covered call'. When you receive your monthly statement it will show each 'step' as single transactions: (1) Buy a security & (2) Sell an option against the security; that's how it will be initially imported into Stocklog+. See Grouping Trades to learn how to keep them together.
  3. Entering Manual trades allows you to easily open and close the transaction at the same time
  4. Everything is seen through the lens of a 'share' or 'count' of something (Stock, Options, Dividends, Cash, etc.)

You enter trades by Right-Clicking anywhere inside the Trade Detail Window (See #6 from Main Screen). You will see the action menu:


Trade: Start a manual trade
Exp\Col: Expand or Collapse the trade tree, this affects ALL trades
Sort: By default, Stocklog+ sorts trades by the OpenDate in ACENDING order, this toggles DECENDING order
Lock: Toggle Lock & Unlock trades
CloseDate: Toggle auto-closing the trade. This option will set the CloseDate = OpenDate
Delete: Delete selected trades, you can also use the delete key. NOTE: Be careful... there is no undo!


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You can press ENTER or click SUBMIT to continue adding more trades until you close the window or click CANCEL.

0: PID: Make this trade a child to another trade (parent) - Optional field (see Trades)

-> REQUIRED FOR ALL TRADES <-
1: Ticker: Ticker for the stock. For Crypto use it's known ID, i.e. BTC, SOL, etc.
2: Notes: Any notes about this trade. 45 Chars Max - Optional field
3: Type: 
  1. Buy, Sell, Call, Put      
  2. Div ->Dividend
  3. SXCH -> Stock Exchange, Merger, Stock in Lieu
  4. $ -> Cash
  5. INFO -> Information
  6. CB -> Crypto Buy
  7. CS -> Crypto Sell  
4: Shares: Number of shares for this transaction. If Option, number of contracts
5: Open Price: Paid Price to initiate the trade
6: Open Date: Date you bought security/opened contract on the security

-> Optional Fields <-
(if you've completed a transaction, you can enter it here, or enter closing data later in the main screen)

7: Close Price: Sold Price
8: Close Date: Date you closed/sold security
9: Fee/Commission: add fees and commissions here

-> Only Required for OPTIONS <-
10: Option Strike: Option strike price is for your information, this is optional
11: Option Expiration Date: Date the option is to expire

In the example above, the status bar is indicating you successfully added 1(share) of RIVN and you performed a BUY @17.48.

Alert
SELLING: Covered Calls, Cash Secured Puts, or going SHORT: Place a '-'(minus) sign in front of the #shares. Example: sell one covered call = -1


Notes
NOTES:
  1. 1-6 are required fields for all transactions
  2. Be sure to use CB & CS for all crypto transactions, some tickers for crypto already exist as regular stock tickers, Stocklog+ uses CB & CS to directly hunt for Crypto Symbols.
  3. Shares can be fractional, i.e. 0.35 BTC
  4. Dates can be entered as: m/d/yy, mm/dd/yy, dd/mm/yy, mm/dd/yyyy, or YYYY-MM-DD. All dates will be converted 🤞 to YYYY-MM-DD, which is how your broker displays dates.
  5. Open and Close Price is always a positive number
  6. Use the shares(#4) to indicate buying (positive share#) or selling/shorting (negative share#) as the first action. See Trade Details Part-1 and Trade Details Part-2