When your broker trade history is an absolute nightmare to match, this is the one click solution! The following conditions may warrant the use of this function:
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Your broker trade history data is hopelessly out of proper order of execution and does not include time of day. Sells come before buys, buys to cover come before short sales, sales mislabeled as short, etc.
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You have a large number of corrections due to our broker representative "fixing" a trade execution. Most of the time this manual override does NOT get properly reflected in the trade history report.
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You did simple sum of all your buys and all your sells for a specific stock and you bought and sold the same amount of shares, yet they were not reported in any particular order as described above.
If any or all of these conditions apply, then "force matching" your trades may be the simple solution rather than spending hours trying to move things around.
To force match your entire TradeLog® data file, please perform the following steps:
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Run the Edit, Force Match Trades function.
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All of your trades are now matched and a proper P&L has been calculated based on what you bought and sold in this data file.
