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Pocket Investor
Entering Activities
Anything that affects the value or quantity of shares of your investments, such as buys, sales,
transfers and fees, should be entered using the corresponding activities in Pocket Investor. This
way, you can maintain a history of all transactions for future reference, and Pocket Investor can
calculate gains and losses for your investments properly.
When entering a buy or sale, you must provide the date when the activity occurred and at least two
of the following fields: quantity of shares, unit price and total value (Pocket Investor can calculate
the third field for you). When recording dividends or commission/fees, only the total value is
required. For “Add Shares” and “Remove Shares” activities, you must inform only the quantity of
shares involved.
“Buy”, “Sell”, “Rec. Dividends” and “Pay Fees” are activities that optionally can refer to a cash
account where the corresponding amount will be transferred to/from. This is allowed for new
activities only – if you edit the activity later, the value generated in the cash account will not
change.
Cash accounts can have Deposit, Withdrawal, Transfer In, Transfer Out, Adjust (Credit) and Adjust
(Debit) activities. Transfer activities can specify another cash account as the origin or destination
for the transfer.
When a “Buy” or “Sell” activity is recorded and a default fee model is defined for the
investment type, Pocket Investor will also generate a fee activity automatically, based on the fee
rules (see Program Options for more information). If a cash account is associated with the
buy/sale, the fee will be deducted from there also (as a withdrawal).
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