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How-To Guides
Short, exact answers to the questions people actually ask — which menu, what it records, and why an action is sometimes missing.
Options
How to Close, Expire, Assign, Exercise, or Roll an Option
Every option position ends exactly one way, and each ending is its own action with its own record. Here is the click path for all five, what each one writes, and why an action is sometimes missing from the menu.
How to Settle a Spread or Condor at Expiration
When a multi-leg position expires with its legs on different fates — one assigned, the rest worthless — neither Close nor Mark as Expired is right. Settle at Expiration takes one settlement price and proposes an outcome per leg.
Stocks
How to Short Sell and Cover Stocks
Sell Short and Buy to Cover are off until you switch them on per account. Here is where that switch lives, how to record the open and the cover, and what happens to short rows in an import while the setting is off.
How to Record a Stock Split
A split is recorded from your broker's file during an import, with the ratio confirmed by you. It rescales every trade of the open position dated before the effective date — share counts by the ratio, price per share the other way — and the position's value doesn't change.
How to Group Trades Into One Position
Several fills of the same ticker can read as one position with one average price. Here is how grouping works for stocks and options, and the two locks that stop a position changing under you.
Why Your Break-Even Differs From Your Broker's
The B/E under your average cost credits the option premium your shares actually earned. It is a projection over realized income, not a rewrite of what the shares cost.
Importing
How to Import Your Broker's Trade History
The import wizard is four steps: Source, Scope, Map, Preview. Nothing is written until you commit on the last one, so the whole run is safe to explore and abandon.
How to Fix an Import That Looks Wrong
Rows set aside, sells with no shares behind them, splits, transfers, and duplicate warnings each have a specific cause. Here is what the preview is telling you and what to do about it.
Setup & Preferences
Accounts, Currency, Fees, and P&L Settings
A handful of settings quietly reshape every number you see. Two in particular — the base currency and the option P&L basis — are display choices that change nothing stored.
How to Record Deposits and Withdrawals
Trades are recorded from your trades, so the only thing left to enter by hand is money moving in and out. Your balance is derived from those entries plus what your trading realized.
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