Day trades

[ivanf]

Hi,

would like to know if it's possible to extract or filter and report for day trades ?
My IB account has mix of day trades and non day trades and I'm finding it difficult to figure out a way of assessing the performance of day trades vs the rest

regards
Ivan

[Mark]

Hi Ivan,

There is no differentiation between trades made on the same day and any other kind of trade. Are you just looking for a filter that only shows trades opened and closed on the same day? You could create a Capital Gains or Investment Transaction report just for that day.

[ivanf]

HI Mark,

thanks for the reply, I'm wanting to create a report that lets me identify all trades open/closed within the same day but going back over a variable time frame.

eg give me the cap gain performance of all my day trades over the past 1 month, 6months, 1 year etc

Not sure if FM can do this ?

regards
Ivan

[Mark]

Hi Ivan,

Sorry, no, you can't filter out only day trades in Fund Manager. You can of course get this information for all trades within any time period you want, but there is no option to only show trades that were opened and closed in the same day.

I think this would be fairly easy to do in Excel, starting from a Fund Manager capital gains report though. Create a Capital Gains report, and then use "File / Export to CSV...". In Excel, compare the "Bought" and "Sold" columns, and if they are the same, then include this line.