Manually Entering Trades Tutorial
Here is a simple tutorial of a covered call but you can turn this into as complex of a trade as you want by adding more transactions.
Once you are in the program and on the portfolio screen.
Click on add
Type in the name of the trade (most people use the stock symbol, but it does not matter)
Once you click continue you will be taken to a screen where you will add the details of your trade. We will enter a covered call for you.
You can enter the Strategy as Covered Call so you can keep track of performance on each trade and any other information that you want in there.
Go down to transactions and that is where we are going to be entering the short call and stock.
Click on new on the top right on the grid.
Once you click on new a new row will come up where you will enter the details of each transaction.
Date = Date you entered the trade
Action = Buy or Sell (Sell for short calls)
Type = Call, Put, or Stock
Qty = The number of contracts or shares you purchased.
Exp Date: Each expiration date will be on Friday. For example, for next month’s expiration, it would be 10/16/2015. For weeklies, it is the same thing.
Strike = Strike of the contract you bought or sold.
Price: Price you received or bought the contract or stock for.
Commission: The amount you paid the broker for the stock or option.
Group (optional): You have the ability to group trades into different groups to keep track of them. The defaults are Open Trade, Close Trade, Adjustment, and expiration.
Click on save changes and then your transactions will be listed on the positions. Once you close out or add more transactions to your trade the positions will automatically populate.
Note on the picture below that I sold 50 shares at a later point in time and the top positions will reflect that.
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