Comments on: How to track your stock trades

By: Reaper

Reaper — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:47:06 +0000

I rarely use TOS … simply put, either you or the software must be doing something wrong. Most likely it is you, or the software doesn’t take commission into account.

You can always use a new line for different fills. I’ll do this is I leg out of a position holding part of it much longer.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:44:52 +0000

Question for you. I’m tracking my trades using the document above for Excel. When I buy and sell I don’t always get complete fills and their usually at different prices. When I average them out I don’t get the same dollar amount that TOS shows. When you keep track of your trades do you have the same issue or I am doing something wrong?

By: whizzler

whizzler — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:27:17 +0000

hmmm… just fiddling with Excel and this does the trick for me..

Win/Loss ratio
=COUNTIF(I:I,”>0″)&”:”&COUNTIF(I:I,”<0")

where 'I' denotes column title…

By: whizzler

whizzler — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:20:59 +0000

hmmm… just fiddling with Excel and this does the trick for me..

Win/Loss ratio
=COUNTIF(I:I,”>0″)&”:”&COUNTIF(I:I,”<0")

where 'I' denotes column title.

By: Reaper

Reaper — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:25:05 +0000

Another useful statistic is win/loss ratio. I’m not personally a huge fan, though. It is easy enough to program in with a for loop.

By: whizzler

whizzler — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:49:07 +0000

cheers reaps, very useful insight. I like the idea of weighted avg. have a great day in the markets tomorrow!

By: Preston

Preston — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:22:02 +0000

Yeah same here buddy, thanks for doing this. I was working on one and me and my over thinking had this massive spreadsheet that did way more than I needed.

By: Reaper

Reaper — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:58:32 +0000

fixed it, thanks!

By: John C

John C — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:53:36 +0000

you got the excel and open office document links Backwards… and Thank you Very much for making this for me. I was just thinking of making one within the next week or so…