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Portfolio Tool

Hold shares, funds, metals or crypto in an investment account, and let the daily price do the rest.

Web App
Same as the other two tools. Portfolio, Budgeting and Goal work the same way: the account, month or currency the page is drawn for sits at the top, + Add sits in the card title, and every row carries a pencil. Learn one, you can drive all three.

Contents

  1. What a portfolio account is
  2. Open the tool
  3. The page at a glance
  4. Add an account
  5. Add or change an asset
  6. Currencies, metals and crypto
  7. Read the holdings
  8. Record a transaction
  9. Distributions and splits

What a portfolio account is

An investment account that knows what it holds, not just what it is worth.

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Assets, priced daily

List the tickers the account holds. Prices are fetched every day, so the account's value follows the market without you typing a number.

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Cash is one of the holdings

An investment account also holds uninvested money. It is listed as its own row, so you can always tell "no cash" from "cash not shown".

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Cost basis and UP/L

What you paid stays recorded next to what it is worth now. The gap between them is your unrealised profit or loss, and no transaction is invented to explain it.


Open the tool

  1. 1 Open the web app.
  2. 2 Click your username, top right.
  3. 3 Choose Portfolio Tool.

The page at a glance

One account at a time, chosen at the top.

Finance Tracker
Portfolio Tool
Account
Trading (AUD)
Holdings + Add Account
AssetUnitsMarket ValueUP/L
VAS.AX
Vanguard Australian Shares
120 11,880.00 +880.00
Cash - 420.00 -
Transactions + Record
No transactions yet.
The three buttons in the Holdings title act on the account: add a new one, edit the one on screen, delete it. The pencil on a row opens the same editor at that asset.

Add an account

Name it, say what currency it reports in, list what it holds.

  1. 1 Click + Add Account in the Holdings title.
  2. 2 Pick an existing investment account, or type a new name to create one on the spot.
  3. 3 Choose the Reporting Currency: the money this account reports in. A brand new account also needs an Owner, and takes optional Aliases.
  4. 4 Add one row per asset: ticker, units, and the cost basis you paid. Tick DRIP on a row to reinvest that asset's distributions instead of taking them as cash.
  5. 5 Click Save.
Add Portfolio
Account
Trading
Reporting Currency
AUD
TickerUnitsCost Basis
VAS.AX
120
11,000
Cash - 420.00
A ticker is checked as you type. A green tick means the market knows it and it will be priced daily; a red cross means the price would never arrive.

Add or change an asset

Assets are columns of the account, so they are edited in the account's own form.

  1. 1 Click the pencil on the asset's row, or the pencil in the Holdings title to open the whole list.
  2. 2 Change units, cost basis, or DRIP, click + Add ticker for a new asset, or clear a row to drop one.
  3. 3 Click Save.
Deleting the account itself is blocked while it still holds assets or cash. Sell them and withdraw the money first, otherwise their value would vanish from your balance sheet with nothing to explain it.

Currencies, metals and crypto

A holding does not have to be a share.

Write it as a pair: what you hold, then what it is priced in. Everything after that is the same as a share. The price arrives every day, and UP/L is what the holding is worth now against what you paid for it.

What you holdTickerPrice is
US dollarsUSDIDROne dollar, in rupiah
Swiss francsCHFIDROne franc, in rupiah
Gold, by the gramXAUGIDROne gram, in rupiah
Gold, by the troy ounceXAUUSDOne troy ounce, in dollars
Silver, by the gramXAGGIDROne gram, in rupiah
BitcoinBTCUSDOne bitcoin, in dollars
Quote the pair in the account's own reporting currency where you can. USDIDR in a rupiah account puts Price and Market Value in the same money. USDAUD prices in dollars and then converts, which is correct but harder to read off the row.

Example: a reserve currency account

Six currencies in one account reporting in IDR. Units are how much of each currency you hold, cost basis is the rupiah you paid for it, and the daily rate does the rest.

Finance Tracker
Account
FX Reserve (IDR)
Holdings + Add Account
AssetUnitsMarket ValueUP/L
USDIDR=X
USD/IDR
5,000 89,034,517 +4,034,517
AUDIDR=X
AUD/IDR
3,000 38,062,488 -937,512
EURIDR=X
EUR/IDR
2,000 41,494,758 +1,494,758
CHFIDR=X
CHF/IDR
1,000 22,264,041 +764,041
GBPIDR=X
GBP/IDR
1,500 36,289,548 +1,289,548
JPYIDR=X
JPY/IDR
300,000 33,568,946 -931,054
Cash - 1,200,000 -

The account totals 261,914,298 IDR against 256,200,000 IDR paid, so its UP/L is +5,714,298 IDR. Type XAUGIDR or BTCUSD as a seventh row and gold or bitcoin sits in the same table, read the same way.

A pair is priced from the same rate table your cash accounts are converted with, so one dollar is worth the same whether you hold it here or in a bank account. It also pays no distribution and never splits, so the Distributions & Splits card stays empty for it.

Read the holdings

ColumnMeaning
WeightWhat this asset is worth as a share of the account right now.
PriceOne unit, in the currency the asset trades in. A US share stays priced in USD.
UnitsHow many you hold.
Market ValueUnits at today's price, converted into the account's own currency.
Cost BasisWhat you paid for what you still hold.
UP/LUnrealised profit or loss: market value less cost basis. Nothing has been sold.

Above the table sit the same three figures for the whole account, and the date the prices came from.


Record a transaction

Buying, selling, or moving money in and out.

  1. 1 Click + Record in the Transactions title.
  2. 2 Fill in the same card the Transactions tab uses.
  3. 3 Click Save Transaction. Units and cash move together, so the holdings redraw straight away.
To do thisRecord
Put money into the accountInvest, from a cash account to this one
Buy an asset with money already in the accountInvest, from Account / Cash to Account / TICKER
Sell an assetWithdraw or Invest out of Account / TICKER
Take money outWithdraw, to a cash account
An asset cannot pay for anything directly. Sell it first, then spend the cash. That is two transactions, and it is what your broker did too.

Distributions and splits

Booked for you, listed so you can check them.

When an asset you hold pays a distribution or splits, the daily job books it and the Distributions & Splits card lists what happened: the asset, the date, the type, the amount, and its status (booked to cash, reinvested, or not booked yet). Nothing there is waiting for you to press a button.

Dates shown are ex-dates, not pay dates. Check them against your statement before you reconcile.