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PortTrak 2.0 - A Bit of Theory, Consolidated/Separated Sheets

There are two different ways of viewing your portfolio in PortTrak 2.0. You can view it as a consolidated portfolio, with all transactions in a given stock aggregated, or you can view it as separated, with each transaction given its own attention.

On the Consolidated sheet, there is no date for the stocks, since it is really an aggregate of all purchases and sales in a stock. There is nothing you are able to change on the Consolidated sheet, since it draws all of its data from the Separated sheet.

The Separated sheet shows more information, since it keeps track of each transaction separately. It includes a date of purchase (which you may change simply by clicking on it and changing it). The Separated sheet also shows you the annualized return for a given transaction. This feature does not work for the first 10 days that you own a new stock, since the annualized returns for even very small gains over a very short period of time are far too large to consider.

On the Separated sheet, you are able to change the date of purchase and the amount of cash in your portfolio simply by clicking on these cells and changing them. Other information must be changed in less direct ways, through menu items under the PortTrak menu.

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