If you purchase a new PC or reinstall Windows on your current one, you’ll need to transfer your TradingDiary Pro license and migrate your transaction data. License Transfer Locate the email containing your most recent license key. Note: each renewal generates a new key. In the new installation, go to Help → Register, enter that […]
Multiple trading accounts Many professional traders maintain multiple accounts across different brokers—such as an IRA, a dedicated stock/options account, and a futures account. Most trading journal software handle multiple accounts through workarounds—either by creating a separate database/file for each account, or by tagging trades from different brokers. Both approaches have significant drawbacks: Separate databases/files — […]
Risk handling is vital for successful trading, especially on leveraged trading. It helps cut down losses and it helps also to protect trader’s account from loosing all of his or her money. TradingDiary Pro has several risk related metrics like the Risk Analysis report which is Equity/Net Asset Value based. This article describes the position […]
Brexit consequences Interactive Brokers clients located in the European Economic Area (EEA) are required to migrate their account from Interactive Brokers (UK) Limited to one of three new European Interactive Brokers entities: Interactive Brokers Central Europe Interactive Brokers Ireland Interactive Brokers Luxembourg Practically all UK accounts for EEA clients are transferred, which means all assets […]
Data Types This article describes how data and different transaction types are handled in TradingDiary Pro, how these transaction types are connected to each other. During the import or adding transactions manually the following transaction types can be imported: Instruments Trades Cash Transactions Total Equity/Net Asset Value Exchange Rates Historical Data Instruments Trading Instrument can […]
If you already setup the Flex queries based on TradingDiary Pro help and you still have not been able to download your transaction history or simply the import fails then the most typical issues are the following: Interactive Brokers returns “Statement generation in progress” The reason behind having two similar statements for 30 days and […]
One of the unique features of TradingDiary Pro which you cannot find in any trading journal software is the options strategy support. TradingDiary Pro is the perfect solution for an options trading journal and tracking your stock and futures options strategies. What is an options strategy? Options strategy is simultaneously buying or selling one or […]
How to use TradingDiary Pro journaling functionality. There are several ways to add notes to trades. You can write down your feelings into a document or add screenshots to a position.
By the default the software assigns trades into positions by using the FIFO aka First in First Out method. The first buy is sold first. On the other hand this means that if you have several trades in a row these trades will be assigned into one position. Let’s assume there are five trades of […]
Most of the brokerage firms provide information only about your recent or past trades. They do not provide info about how your whole account has been performing over the time. If you have mid and long term positions it’s important how your overall portfolio performs over time. What is Net Asset Value or Total Equity? […]