Interactive Brokers - position reporting

Discussion in 'Retail Brokers' started by syswizard, Aug 3, 2016.

  1. Am I stupid, or is it nearly impossible to get a report of each holdings position change from previous day to current close ?
    Portfolio Analysis nicely provides the aggregate change, but I want to see each position's change in value.
    When I create a Flex Query, all I get is XML output.....how worthless is that ?
    PDF or Excel format would be much, much more valuable.
    OK, fair enough, Excel can read the XML format fine.

    Omigosh, when I attempt to change the time period like last "n" calendar days, it gives me the unrealized PNL since inception, not since the last trading day. And incredibly, there is no option to specify "since last n trading days".
     
    Last edited: Aug 3, 2016
  2. Fonz

    Fonz

    Did you try: Report, Activity, Statements, MTM Summary ?
    You can can do that at any time, or after the end of the trading session to get the changes after the close.
    You can change the format of all report and get HTML, PDF, XML (which is Excel).
    You could also get a specialized software like Neutral Trend Trademax, import daily your trades, and have very interesting reports.
     
  3. Thanks for that Fonz....but % change shown on that report ? Sheesh...
    I'm going to check out the Neutral Trend Trademax software.....thanks for the reference.
     
  4. Fonz

    Fonz

    You said: "...but I want to see each position's change in value"
    Regarding % change, I don't think there any ready to use possibility. Anyway, with an Excel statement, just add a column with % formula.
     
  5. JackRab

    JackRab

    Yep... hookup excel with their platform and do your own realtime analysis... works for me!
     
  6. Don't need realtime.....portfolio is in mutual funds. However, I intend to convert these over to equivalent ETF's.